Read /HeardThis One ?

Thanks to my friend Suzanne for sending me this:


The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, 'Hello.'


'Mrs. Sanders, please.'


'Speaking.'


'Mrs. Sanders, this is Doctor Jones at Saint Agnes Laboratory. When yourhusband's doctor sent his biopsy to the lab last week, a biopsy from another Mr. Sanders arrived as well. We are now uncertain which one belongs to your husband. Frankly, either way the results are not too good.'


'What do you mean?' Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.


'Well, one of the specimens tested positive for Alzheimer's and the otherone tested positive for HIV. We can't tell which is which.'


'That's dreadful! Can you do the test again?' questioned Mrs. Sanders


'Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time.'


'Well, what am I supposed to do now?'


'The folks at Medicare recommend that you drop your husband off somewhere in the middle of town. If he finds his way home, don't sleep with him.'

Medicaid Fraud and the Homeless

Read about it here.

For profit hospitals in The U.S. , sending recruiters out to bring homeless people to the hospital for bogus or minor treatment . Some of the treatments even made healthy people sick. This scam sucked millions from the government medicare system.

So many who can't get medical care and hospitals are stealing money from the system.

Still want two tier health care in Canada?

At least St Mike's hospital in Toronto has an actual out patient clinic for the homeless. You can
get treatment there for anything even if you don't have a health card. Real care, not fake care for profit.

Give Me a Reason to Drop You...

The private health insurance my husband pay to insure his family took care of all of our medical needs. The co-pays to the doctor office, specialist, hospital, prescription were affordable. Then unexpectedly I received a letter from the insurance company that has covered me for years stating, “If you do not pick up Medicare we will no longer cover you”. What the hell, I was dumbfounded to receive the letter. I told my husband I believe because of the high cost of my medication to slow the progression of MS and the other medications I have to take because of MS. Our insurance company was going to find a reason to drop me.

Of course, I did what I was told because I did not want to be dropped from one of the best insurance company in the US (in my opinion)… It has been a nightmare having Medicare as my primary. The insurance I was use to having became my secondary, thank God they continue to pay for my prescriptions. With the way Medicare is setup, I wonder what the Universal Plan will be like that our Government is seeking to establish. I am sure it is going to be a hot mess once a plan is presented and I also think it will cause me more grieve…I pay three times more a month for Medicare than my husband by for our other insurance.

My second bitch is about Auto Insurance. I have been driving for 30 years and NEVER had an accident until last month. I damaged my passenger side front fender as I was pulling out of my garage. Can you believe that I was damn near out of the garage? Any who, I immediately took my car to a body shop hoping all that was wrong was to remove the paint from my garage that was on my car. The paint on my car was chipped off and I had a dent in the fender. The cost was over a thousand dollars, why pay over a thousand dollars when my deductible is only $250.00. That was a no brainer to call my auto insurance company and file a claim.

I called to make a claim and after giving the specifics to the customer service rep, the rep said the following to me, “Your insurance rate will probably go up because this is consider an at fault accident”. I was speechless, when I was able to find my voice, I asked, “Why would my premium go up, I have never had an accident, this is my very first claim since I have been carrying insurance, therefore why and the hell would my premium go up”. The CSR was just doing his job, he said, “It is the company policy to inform a customer it is a possibility their rates will go up if they are at fault”.

There was no need for me to be angry with him, but I damn sure became angry at the system once again. There is so much wrong with this country, but I hope the also put regulating the Insurance Industry on their agenda soon.