Just this past May my mother fell in France and broke both her femurs.
My mother has both Medicare and Tricare for life. (My father was
retired military reserves)
Medicare will not cover you outside the US.
Tricare will cover her surgery and hospital stay but it had to be
paid for up front.
Total cost (All inclusive) for surgeries and hospital stay of one
week was $12,000 US. Same stay and surgeries in the US would have
been approximately $50,000.
US health care has found ways to line every ones pocket for a simple procedure.
Have some blood drawn and you will get two to three bills. Doctors
office for drawing blood, lab for running tests, and pathologist for
reviewing lab results. Now that is criminal and outrageous.
There is a better way to do this and it is going to take some time,
but it is about time they start addressing it.
Stewart
At 02:54 PM 7/25/2009, you wrote:
There is so much money against doing what the public wants and needs
right now that I think all we can hope for is a step in the right
direction. If we could get something in there that is not insurance
it would be good.
Every other industrialized country in the world has single payer healthcare.
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
mailto:popoz...@earthlink.net
Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org
Ozark, AL SL 82
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