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Originally Posted by Peaches
My mother ran a huge nursing home facility in FL for 20 years until retiring last month. My stepmother has been a midwife at a government run hospital for 10 years. My father has been a Medicare recipient for the last 7 years. I have heard horror stories from them, their co-workers, my own doctor, nurses and doctors in other locations, and since I took classes and am interning to do coding work and work with Medicare/caid, IMO, it's screwed up.
My father has kept his supplemental policy which he refuses to get rid of.
Meanwhile, like I said, I recently had almost $200K in medical bills and most were paid by BCBS before I even got home. It takes months to get something from Medicare/caid and they kick it back more times than they take it. The "joke" is that they are all trained to turn them all down the first time, lol.
People who think the health system is going to all warm and cozy if they elect the "right" people and get UHC are truly looking through very rose colored glasses. And if my book wasn't in the car, I could give you the ICD-9 code for that.  |
Medicare and medicaid are systems that are used to pay for healthcare. That fact that you know people who work in a government run hospital or nursing care facility has nothing to do with medicare or medicaid.
With a universal system, you show up at the doctor, they decide what treatment you need, and then they bill the government for the treatment.
You never have to worry about what's paid for and what isn't.
You'll never get a bill and never have to fight over whether or not something was covered.
Your experience with BCBS is unique....ask the millions of people who have been denied treatment by an HMO because of a pre-existing condition or because the treatment was considered "experimental" or any other of the dozens of reasons they give for not providing treatment.
We can't really base our national health care plan on your individual experience with Blue Cross. All of the data available overwhelmingly shows that a universal single payer system is superior to the system we currently have in the U.S.