> > > Willytex is on Medicare... > > > > > Medicare is for sick people. > > raunchydog wrote: > Medicare is an insurance plan in > case you get sick, it's not just > for sick people. > I'm enrolled in the government plan, almost everyone around here is, since it's an automatic payroll deduction. But I'm on an employee group plan provided by my employer. I make a small co-pay, but I'm not sick, so I don't use the plan very much. You can't use both at the same time.
I like to pay out-of-pocket for most services - I like to manage my own health care, whenever possible.