[Magdalen] health insurance

[Lynn Ronkainen]

My mom, now approaching 92 is on Medicare and what she pays out of her 
paltry SS check every month is peanuts compared to the services she can 
utilize, has utilized and would still be utilizing if she was not so 
immobilized these days. It's below cents on the dollar for her

Meanwhile, studies have come out that most Medicare recipients spend their 
all life high during the last year or months of their deaths, and much of 
that is unnecessary... especially when there is no family oversight.

Lynn

website: www.ichthysdesigns.com

When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a 
single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck
 "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk 
by Richard Rohr

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From: "Sibyl Smirl" <polycarpa3 at ckt.net>
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2015 5:58 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] health insurance

> On 9/18/15 5:36 PM, Scott Knitter wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Roger Stokes
>> <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com> wrote:
>>> What is needed is somebody to draw attention to the graph of health 
>>> outcomes
>>> against expenditure and the fact that the USA is an outlier from the
>>> scattergram.  The fact is that those in the USA do not get what they pay 
>>> for
>>> in healthcare.  Which high-profile politician is willing to pass on 
>>> getting
>>> Big Pharma donations to say that?
>>
>> There's also the seemingly insurmountable hurdle of American
>> exceptionalism. It seems impossible to convince great numbers of the
>> public that single-payer or Medicare for all isn't a pinko socialist
>> evil from godless Europe.
>>
>
> If you were on Medicare (and it's the law that I have to be), you wouldn't 
> want it for "all".  It still has a premium that comes out of my SS check 
> every month, and it still has a co-pay for most things (flu shots are 
> "free") and a bunch of stuff isn't covered.
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> -- 
> Sibyl Smirl
> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net