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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (13462)	2/18/2010 7:20:07 AM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Respond to of 42652

One of the reasons the inexpensive elderly are inexpensive is because they aren't treated aggressively. I have some ninety-something relatives that have never had a colonoscopy, for example. Their primary care physicians don't send them for those sorts of things. They don't know to ask for them or they are old school and are oriented toward going to doctors only when they're in big trouble. My family in Tucson belong to an HMO. They get minimal care. Not that there's anything wrong with that. They all made it into their nineties. Just making the point that you can't necessarily infer differences in health between the two cohorts. I cost Medicare more than all of my Medicare relatives combined because I'm aggressive about my health care, not because I'm less healthy. There are plenty of aggressive people under 65, as well. Bottom line, health is a dividing factor but so is aggressiveness.