Let’s hope once she recovers I hear she is improving she advocates for all. Also why aren’t our politicians advocating for affordable, safe, quality of care. Also of concern in Medicare Advantage ripping people off. Great article
Providers are denying care under ' We don't know what/which your primary coverage is.' Medicare says 'We can only go by the record we have. Shows you have other coverage.' In the meantime, while you get bounced back and forth you can't get the appointment without giving the provider confirmed coverage. Medicare says you can't be turned down for care because of insurance coverage or lack of, but providers work around this by coming up with reasons to NOT make the appointment. Is this what Medicare has become? Recovery tactics before the care is provided?
I agree. Medicare Advantage is really private insurance that receives the Medicare subsidies, and either collects or returns the Medicare premium that is deducted from the Social Security checks from seniors.
My mom used a Medicare Advantage because it was all the she could afford on her Social Security income. I had to deal with them on several occasions. They wanted to raise her co pay for her cancer injection to a $7500 monthly co pay. She only earned $15,000 per year in Social Security. It was impossible for her to pay that co pay.
She was transferred her to horrible hospitals because they were in network. Her primary care doctor was horrible, but he was in network. On several occasions, he would deny care because it was costing him too much out of his share of the Medicare Advantage provider. I had to advocate for her care, and I worked closely with her specialists.
When I turned 65 years old, I chose regular Medicare. I was not about to deal with any Medicare Advantage company concerning my care.
It's intriguing to consider why many Americans appear to be more fervently concerned about the escalating costs of higher education and the challenges of student loan forgiveness, as well as the absence of affordable housing, than they are about the evident inefficiencies in the health insurance system. One might expect a broader societal discourse on this pressing matter, yet the conversation seems predominantly confined to those within the health care sector. A plausible explanation could be drawn from the metaphor of the gradually boiled frog: the health care system's deterioration has been so gradual that its flaws remain largely imperceptible to the general populace, until they encounter a personal crisis that reveals its deficiencies.
No one should have to purchase private for profit health insurance to get healthcare. Healthcare should be provided by the government, paid for with tax dollars. We are the only country on earth with a crazy private for profit healthcare system like this.
Let’s hope once she recovers I hear she is improving she advocates for all. Also why aren’t our politicians advocating for affordable, safe, quality of care. Also of concern in Medicare Advantage ripping people off. Great article
'Our' politicians do not work for the common good, obviously.
Pass the hot potato
Providers are denying care under ' We don't know what/which your primary coverage is.' Medicare says 'We can only go by the record we have. Shows you have other coverage.' In the meantime, while you get bounced back and forth you can't get the appointment without giving the provider confirmed coverage. Medicare says you can't be turned down for care because of insurance coverage or lack of, but providers work around this by coming up with reasons to NOT make the appointment. Is this what Medicare has become? Recovery tactics before the care is provided?
I agree. Medicare Advantage is really private insurance that receives the Medicare subsidies, and either collects or returns the Medicare premium that is deducted from the Social Security checks from seniors.
My mom used a Medicare Advantage because it was all the she could afford on her Social Security income. I had to deal with them on several occasions. They wanted to raise her co pay for her cancer injection to a $7500 monthly co pay. She only earned $15,000 per year in Social Security. It was impossible for her to pay that co pay.
She was transferred her to horrible hospitals because they were in network. Her primary care doctor was horrible, but he was in network. On several occasions, he would deny care because it was costing him too much out of his share of the Medicare Advantage provider. I had to advocate for her care, and I worked closely with her specialists.
When I turned 65 years old, I chose regular Medicare. I was not about to deal with any Medicare Advantage company concerning my care.
Medicare Advantage is not Medicare. These plans should not be allowed to use the word “Medicare” in their name.
It's intriguing to consider why many Americans appear to be more fervently concerned about the escalating costs of higher education and the challenges of student loan forgiveness, as well as the absence of affordable housing, than they are about the evident inefficiencies in the health insurance system. One might expect a broader societal discourse on this pressing matter, yet the conversation seems predominantly confined to those within the health care sector. A plausible explanation could be drawn from the metaphor of the gradually boiled frog: the health care system's deterioration has been so gradual that its flaws remain largely imperceptible to the general populace, until they encounter a personal crisis that reveals its deficiencies.
She's basically a libertarian and wasn't going to be forced to get health insurance. She's worth millions.
No one should have to purchase private for profit health insurance to get healthcare. Healthcare should be provided by the government, paid for with tax dollars. We are the only country on earth with a crazy private for profit healthcare system like this.
She's not worth millions, but she did actively campaign for Reagan, both Bushes, and other conservative candidates.
Can Rite Aid going out of business via bankruptcy be an affect of Aetna. United Health Care, and Cigna's association with Walgreens and CVS?
While I believe everyone deserves healthcare, I'm struggling to feel empathetic to Retton. She got what she advocated for.
Will she now speak out against healthcare for profit? Or will she just take her crowd funding money and do business as usual?
Even the very stupid should have a right to healthcare.