[RFEngineer]

SS is another separate issue for another thread.

Medicare/Medicaid will have be rolled into a public system.

That public system will have to live within a fixed budget. That will mean rationing, lines, and limits on the “free” stuff you can get. In the UK they decided to exclude people from all but trivial care on the basis of weight and smoking status. So, for instance, if you are fat, and want a hip replacement or knee replacement you won’t be getting it on Medicare.

[Mr. Douglas]

So, for instance, if you are fat, and want a hip replacement or knee replacement you won’t be getting it on Medicare.

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I like the idea of inserting personal responsibility into the process.

[Mr. Douglas]

So, for instance, if you are fat, and want a hip replacement or knee replacement you won’t be getting it on Medicare.

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I like the idea of inserting personal responsibility into the process.

[Mr. Douglas]

SS is another separate issue for another thread.

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I brought it up because they deduct medicare insurance from your SS whether you want it or not. I don’t want it and consider it pretty much worthless.

[GailA]

Add Tricare Life to that list as it is secondary to Medicare for over 65 Ret. Military. Both are price fixed, losing doctors, test, low and slow reimbursements.

Hematologist, used an out of state blood lab, took them a year to file just Medicare, of course Medicare denied them. As will Tricare Life that one has not come in yet. It’s thousands of $$. I signed waivers NOT to run any non Medicare/Tricare Life test. They went ahead and ran them any way. Can’t get the lab reports out of the Hematologist, even my primary can’t. All I know is I don’t have Leukemia. But no reason why the red/white blood cells in bone marrow are abnormal. All I got was keep coming in every 6 months for more blood work. Cancelled the last appt and never made another one. Idiot was just padding his billing.