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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Alighieri who wrote (455394)2/10/2009 11:24:19 AM
From: i-node  Read Replies (4) of 1576352
 

We are living this right now...brought elder parent from Fl to live with us because he can't care for himself. His medical records are on sometimes illegible sheets of paper in a folder an inch thick. Every new visit means filling out the same paperwork over and over again. All the same (expensive) tests being repeated without any consultation with his prior doctors or even access to detailed prior results. Trying to understand what insurance covers vs what medicare covers is an exercise in paralegal gymnastics. It's a nightmare of inefficiency.


THIS IS A CROCK OF SHIT. And you know it.

Expensive lab tests are repeatedly for one reason only: They need to be. Lab results are consistently saved in charts in PRINTED, NOT HANDWRITTEN form. Always.

The rules for coordination of benefits can be complex, but not in the simple situation you describe. If your parent has coverage provided by an employer plan, it is primary to Medicare. If they have Medicare Supplemental coverage, it is secondary to Medicare and the claims are automatically crossed over, for the most part.

Are there problems? Sure. Where do they come from? FROM THE F*CKING GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT.

EMR is already happening.

Let's see how you feel when Obama-care decides that your parents don't have enough years left anyway to give them expensive chemotherapy treatment. And when their physician says, "Sorry, I cannot treat this illness because the government won't allow it."

bloomberg.com

You're a moron.
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