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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (16726)4/12/2010 4:50:40 PM
From: Lane31 Recommendation  Read Replies (2) of 42652
 
I've tried

Not very hard. A couple of times I suggested to you that you try actually reading the gotcha charts you offer. Look down the column labeled "frequency." It pays for a lipid panel every five years. Whoopie. In five years you could die from heart disease. Just because a procedure is on the list doesn't mean it's effectively covered. Note the frequency for abdominal aortic aneurysm ultrasound--once per lifetime. Tough break if you develop an aneurysm, which will kill you, after already having had your one-time ultrasound. Or colon cancer having been effectively screened only once every ten years.

"The only other way we could identify what is not covered is by experience" nonsense- Here's a chart that includes the numbers of the procedures....

Now, how do you know that's a complete set? And how would you go about identifying what's missing? You know, it's easy to react to what's there. But how do you find what isn't there? What would prompt you to look for, say CRP screening unless you didn't have a need for it or know of someone who did?

Vitamin D and lipid...LOL your school nurse could do that...

The question is whether Medicare would pay for him to do it. Unless of course you mean "by could do it" that "your school nurse" could pay. Good luck making that happen.

you're totally ignorant of Medicare and what it covers

Do you really think that getting up on your high horse asserting superiority while shoveling horse output at me is an effective argument? Maybe it is if you mistake argument for quarrel, because what you've been doing is simply quarreling.

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