When I recently got a new mattress I found out that Medicare no longer will purchase a fully automatic bed! They will only let you have a semi-automatic which doesn't raise or lower the bed electrically. My DME provider said even if you need a fully automatic bed in order to transfer indepently, our country will no longer allow it. Why? Because they can't afford it! We can afford to spend billions in Iraq but certainly not for us cripples. As McCain said, "bomb, bomb Iran and we should stay in Iraq for a hundred or even a thousand years!" I guess he has plenty of stock in the military industry. And as was said here before they no longer let you get the chair or mattress you need - only the cheap stuff for us. I guess we should just suck it up. Or we could all move into nursing homes where the government says we'll get great care! And they will gladly pay for it while giving us $20 a month - free money! Yay!
Dan At 01:09 PM 1/11/2008 -0800, John S. said something that elicited my response: >A friend of mine is a C-4 and his bed just died. They replaced it with a bed >he can't raise to use his phone because it cranks to move up and down. It has >to lower down so he can change channels on his TV. He can't use the controller >it does have because his fingers and wrists do not move. The controller for >his old bed wouldn't work because different companies made them. (many years >ago). Does anyone know anything about getting beds through Med/Med and the bed >actually being usable. His doctor prescribed a bed but the DME says what they >delivered is what he is allowed to have. >At the moment he is sleeping in a lift chair with a bed bag attached to his >leg bag. >Is there any chance he is eligible for a voice activated thing that could >operate it? (His old one was sip and puff and hung around his neck.) > >john > > >Never miss a thing. ><http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=51438/*http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs>Make Yahoo your >homepage.
