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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

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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