Social Security & Medicare
In reply to the discussion: MEDICARE: Delays, Denials, Growing Privatization Leading to Harmful Outcomes in Healthcare [View all]AverageOldGuy
(2,443 posts). . . Yes, I know, the Medicare advantage ads flood the cable TV channels that old people watch. I know. My wife of 58 years, who is now 82 and slipping mentally, watches old cowboy movies and shows over and over -- we are in a rural VA county and depend on DirecTV, which has a few channels dedicated to old "westerns." She's even memorized the dialogue in some of them. Still, it makes her happy.
These channels are awash in Medicare advantage; funeral and final expense "life insurance;" car breakdown insurance; Camp LeJeune water lawyers; and other scams. The advertisers know where their audience is and know how to grab them.
At least once a day I must explain to her why we stick with standard Medicare and TriCareForLife. She is insulin dependent diabetic who takes a handful of meds twice daily along with five injections of two types of insulin daily. She has had both knees replaced, two session of foot and hand surgery, shoulder surgery -- cost us ZERO. Her meds cost us on average $85 per month.
The truth about the scam that is Medicare Advantage is all over the 'net and needs only a simple Google search to find.
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