Me being 67 and on the Medicare gravy train makes me pretty sad....I have no trouble seeing any doctor or hospital I want to go to...Oh you're on medicare and have a solid supplemental...come on down! I had a rough couple years with some aggressive skin cancers right after turning 65 and watching the medical system milk the medicare system was sobering, frightening as I watched my medical bill soar pass the million dollar mark....Of course medicare only paid maybe $150K supplemental maybe 30K and me under a few thousand...but that's the game the hospitals and doctors play for tax purposes.....they bill a gazillion and write off what they "forgave"...crazy screwed up shit and I see no easy solution in the near future unless we can get rid of the crazy lawsuits which just ain't going to happen in the land of the free
I don't see any reason for you to feel sad about being on the Medicare gravy train. Other than the fact that the medical system (doctors and hospitals) try to overcharge for services rendered, they never receive the amount of dollars stated on their billings to CMS.
It amounts to nothing more than an accounting game that they play to perhaps "cook the books". Who can possibly know or understand why the money game is played the way it is. And to what end?
I had cataract surgery performed on one eye shortly after I was enrolled into Medicare. The cost of the surgery was almost $9500. My out of pocket cost was $150.
Your medical bills have to date exceeded $1,000,000 of which Medicare paid $150,000. Supplemental insurance paid $30,000 and you paid "under a few thousand".
I agree with you that the money game that plays out between doctors, hospitals, and Medicare is bizarre.
All things considered, it seems to me that all is well for you.
A few days ago, an acquaintance of mine stated "No one other than Trump and his inner circle knows how he thinks/feels about anything."
I responded:
How is any of what you are positing that "only" Trump's inner circle knows how he thinks and feels about anything, remotely possible? If it is true, then it would also be fair to say that only Obama and his inner circle understood what Obama's true intentions were when he said that he was going to "transform" America. If you go back far enough in time and research Obama's speeches on healthcare, for example, he acknowledged that he was in favor of a government controlled health care system, and he acknowledged that it would take 15 or more years to accomplish the goal of eliminating insurance companies, leaving the government fully in control of everything related to health care.
Eight years as POTUS wasn't nearly enough time to accomplish that goal, but he is still working hard behind the scenes to destroy insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies.
Bernie Sanders is orgasmic knowing that if Biden is elected, Bernie will be in control of the Senate committee that can destroy insurance and pharmaceutical companies in order to implement full control over the health and well being of every American at the discretion of number crunchers in the employee of the government.
To be fair, it's true that every insurance company employs their own number crunchers that do their best to keep their company in the black.
There are many many insurance companies in the U.S.
People still have the ability of choose the insurance company that they feel best meets their needs only because there is a multitude of companies to choose from to meet their needs.
If a "single payer" system of healthcare with the government fully in control ever comes to fruition?.....It wouldn't surprise me that our grandchildren and great grandchildren might remember it that it was our generation that made a bad decision.
You're intelligent. Ask yourself the question..."Other than the single payer system....what else did Obama have in mind when he said that he was going to "transform America"?.
I profer it that the only people who know are Obama and his inner circle, at that time, and now.