Re: A couple of things you ought to know about the Healthcare Bill - Page 4

 

I have heard and read so many different things back and forth - pro and
con - about the proposed healthcare bill - don't know what to believe or
not.

I have Medicare.  Not the Advantage or any Supplement - just plain Medicare.
I took a bad fall in July and had to have X-rays of my wrist.  The bill -
without Medicare - would have been $160.  With Medicare it was $11.67.  I
had met my yearly deductible.

My main concern, if Medicare payments to doctors, etc, is reduced will fewer
doctors accept Medicare patients?  Not many doctors accept Medicaid for that
reason.  At the present, hospitals and those facilities associated with
hospitals get much higher reimbursements for Medicaid patients than the
independent practitioner.  (This is New York state - other places may be
different).

So will the same thing happen with Medicare?  That reduces the options a
great deal and puts those in rural areas (such as my location) in a position
that would require much more travel distance and time to get to a
practitioner that accepts Medicare.

But things are so confusing with the bill - and things being changed back
and forth so often - who really knows.  Not even the ones who are voting on
the changes.

JonquilJan

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As long as you are learning, you are living
When you stop learning, you start dying

 



The 3877 thing is a troll. It's been all over the place in the last
few hours. Just killfile it and move on.

 



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