blairbear17 writes:
Oh believe me with my grandparents, I'm well aware of the things you talk of, but it isn't as easy as you say it is. Until you have had to do it, I wouldn't assume that it is that simple. $200 a month is a lot for someone on a fixed income
It is not hard, it is time consuming. I have been through the process for someone else. You have to be persistent, but, in the end, they will work with you. Old people need advocates as they find it confusing to do the paperwork.
stone, You don't read!!
It's the $200, not the time.
sstone, I don't mean to pick on you, but you always have simple solutions to difficult problems. If you don't have the $$, saying that "it's not hard, it's time consuming" makes NO sense.
I find it interesting that we want to give everyone affordable insurance, but Medicare, which actually has a tax that comes out of our paychecks so we are paying for it before we ever have it. Then you have to pay for a supplemental which starts around $200 and that is usually with a high deductible, I know my parents deductible is $5000 on their supplemental. So we talk about affordable insurance for everyone but seniors.
TxDeb writes:
I find it interesting that we want to give everyone affordable insurance, but Medicare, which actually has a tax that comes out of our paychecks so we are paying for it before we ever have it. Then you have to pay for a supplemental which starts around $200 and that is usually with a high deductible, I know my parents deductible is $5000 on their supplemental. So we talk about affordable insurance for everyone but seniors.
I have no deductable on my supplemental. I pay nothing out of pocket. That doesn't sound like much of a supplemental. Check out AARP.
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