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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (179273)	6/7/2009 1:44:44 PM
From: KLP	1 Recommendation Respond to of 225578

MM, yes, cutting some of those things WILL kill you...see my previous note. It makes no sense to most of us how things can be rationed if we carry our own insurance, or simply want to pay for the service ourselves. BUT, remember I said earlier, that now Medicare RULES are the rules that seem to govern ALL the billing for Everything, no matter the age of the patient. For instance, if Medicare doesn't "approve" of a certain procedure, then your supplemental insurance WON'T pay for the procedure or medical item either. If a Doctor takes only one Medicare patient, he/she MUST take ALL Medicare patients that come knocking, or he/she will lose their license. Medicare has run into financial issues ONLY because the Congress over the years, has done a couple of things... 1) Let every Tom, Dick and Sally who comes into this country illegally, or even legally, have access to it... Most people now have put their portion into Medicare since it was instituted under LBJ, and so has their employer put in an equal amount. The two combined total 15% of your pay check goes toward helping to pay for this....(The Governments portion 7.65% could have been a raise for you from your employer, but the employer had to pay that amount to the Government, and so did the employee) The Government seems to be able to do any darn thing the Government wants to do....We sheeple had better stand up and be counted soon, before it's too late!