[darkwing104]

Couldn’t a patient use Medicare and then top it up with an additional cash payment to satisfy Mayo’s requirements? Or is that not allowed under the Medicare program?

The patient can get supplemental Insurance. The problem is that far too many Americans have adopted an entitlement mentality...They expect to get everything for free and they vote to get more freebies. Too many people have made a career of living off of the dole.

The taxpayers are getting to the point where we can no longer support them. It's become a way of life for so many able bodied people. Also, the Medical Professionals need to make a living also. Hard work should be rewarded.

You can only do so much charity work before you yourself becomes a Charity Case.

[Praxeologue]

So if I paid the Mayo supplemental, above, what would happen when I’m rushed to the hospital with chronic Conservatism? Could the surgeon, as the Bloomberg article suggests, refuse to treat me because I am a MediCare patient? I guess the answer is that there is probably some supplemental plan for that.

[crowsnest]

How is it an entitlement mentality for me to expect to be able to use the Medicare program when I have been paying for that many years, as it is automatically removed from my paycheck???? FREE??? Living off the dole??? I’ve been paying for Medicare and will be paying for it for the next 10 years, at least, and at this rate, like Social Security, which I have also paid for, will never be able to use it.