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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] The future of eldercare in the US
  • Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 21:05:13 -0800

I have a couple more sections to go through. So far what I'm reading is enough to scare even an unthinking sheople!

I'll have to summarize the blooming thing because if you don't have all the codes they keep referring to (most are unnecessary references which I think is the whole point), then REAL soon you are spinning wheels and most folks are giving up.

Lynda
The press corp is fact-adverse but very fable friendly.

----- Original Message ----- From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>


I still don't have the answers to these questions...Does anyone have any
specific knowledge? I know there has been a lot of talk about the
Canadian system, but I am talking about the US legislation...

1. They have heard that good medical care for those over the age of 59
will be hard to find. They have heard rumors that fewer diagnostic
tests will be performed, fewer will get timely referrals to specialists,
and medications will likely be generic only.
Is there any kind of age breakdown-special circumstances for seniors,
etc. -cut in the new proposal?

2. What does the new plan say about those who intend to have surgeries
overseas? Will insurance companies pay for elective surgeries and
treatments done elsewhere?

3. If Medicare is cut, exactly where will those cuts come from? Will
it be at the expense of our elderly, and eventually us, those who are
approaching being able to eat off the senior menu-the AARP crowd? Right
now, I have a neighbor who has stage 4 prostate cancer who needs several
surgeries, non-cancer related, blood clots, etc. His former physicians
are no longer accepting Medicare patients and the closest physician he
has found that will accept him as a patient is down outside of Atlanta.
That is a long drive for someone who is sick and elderly. Is this an
omen for the future of eldercare?


--
Duct tape is like The Force: There's a Light Side, a Dark Side, and, of
course, it holds the universe together.
EarthNSky Farm, NW Georgia, USA
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