tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967781860933132301.post6725723682089277727..comments2024-03-18T00:20:39.782+11:00Comments on Type 2 Diabetes - A Personal Journey: Health Care Funding By GovernmentsAlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02868809225921579099noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967781860933132301.post-90335507710011663842009-06-12T23:05:16.514+10:002009-06-12T23:05:16.514+10:00After my husband retired in 1985, we had good heal...After my husband retired in 1985, we had good health insurance paid my his company though Travelers Insurance. Several years later they dropped Travelers and took Met Life for their provider. This cost us $139 a month and it had a $1350 deductible. So for the next seventeen years, we paid the premium and never received a penny assistance for his health care. We also paid all medical bills. Through two surgeries for melanoma, and radiation treatments and surgeries for seven squamous cell carcinoma, the insurance paid nothing. Finally, I dropped it.<br /><br />The doctors, upon learning that he had no supplemental insurance, all discounted the bills. So far, we have had no problem paying the medical bills ourselves. He is 79 and has diabetes, just diagnosed last fall. The metforum he takes for that cost us $4.00 at Wal Mart. We are both on Medicare.<br /><br />I have a supplemental insurance that I bought from Blue Cross/Blue Shield. When I took it out at age 65, it was $87. a month. Now at age 73, it is $161. a month and goes up each year as I get older. <br /> I have no health problems and take no meds so all that is outgo and is not used unless I get sick...which I very seldon do.<br /><br /><br />Neither of us has the prescription plan which was designed for the insurance companies to make massive profits because of the famed donut hole. It was also designed for Big Phama to make huge profits. The cost of meds are astronomical in America. <br /> <br />America's health care is not the best. <br /> <br />Except for the VA, Medicare and Medicaid (for the very poor) their health insurance is all through private companies.Margie's Musingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11206751037182686016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967781860933132301.post-30243994638704283362009-06-12T19:13:30.973+10:002009-06-12T19:13:30.973+10:00Thanks. A very sad report.Thanks. A very sad report.Alanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02868809225921579099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967781860933132301.post-51353810978331968012009-06-12T17:49:27.471+10:002009-06-12T17:49:27.471+10:00I don't know if you spotted this link I posted...I don't know if you spotted this link I posted on ASD a couple of days ago about medical bills causing about 60% of bankruptcies in the U.S. The Tiny url link doesn't work I'm afraid it hasn't been working properly the last couple of times I have used it.<br /><br />Supports you comments<br /><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5530Y020090605?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNewsLazyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07361423019295341444noreply@blogger.com