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TreasonousBastard

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17. My healthcare has been split between Medicare, the VA, and my wallet...

Fri Mar 13, 2020, 07:28 AM

Mar 2020

There is a huge wall between Medicare and the VA. I just spent a week in the hospital under Medicare, and it was actually pleasant and successful although the bills haven't come in.

VA doctors cannot issue scrips valid outside the VA pharmacy and outside doctors can't issue scrips valid at the VA pharmacy. I get my pharms for a very low copay from the VA and this cause some small confusion with scrips from the hospital doctor. Since they were generic stuff, I ended up just paying the 50 bucks to save hassles.

That's just one example. Anyone who has dealt with healthcare has plenty of stories dealing with the various nonsensical barriers and inconsistencies that waste many small fortunes daily.

I cannot, in my wildest acid dreams, imagine how this "system" could be reorganized to something sensible in the MFA time frames put out so far. If at all.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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We've been told over and over that Medicare for All is "too radical." [View all] Uncle Joe Mar 2020 OP

Nobody here disputes the value...we dispute the ability to win an Election on the issue brooklynite Mar 2020 #1

This pandemic may actually change attitudes about MfA. Frasier Balzov Mar 2020 #6

Sanders speaks truthfully, consistently. No one else like him. KPN Mar 2020 #2

Sorry, but...LOL n/t zackymilly Mar 2020 #3

Why hasn't he been able to get any of his "consistent" proposals enacted in almost 30 years? But.... George II Mar 2020 #7

We do agree on this. nolawarlock Mar 2020 #11

There's NOTHING truthful about "there's no difference between the Democrats and the GOP". There's... NurseJackie Mar 2020 #19

So Bernie takes a very real crisis PatSeg Mar 2020 #4

John Dingell proposed "this" in 1943, and every year he was in the House. Jr. agreed and.... George II Mar 2020 #5

We have an electorate that is too ignorant to understand the proper term , single payer. Meadowoak Mar 2020 #10

Or some of us disagree with M4A without a private option ... nolawarlock Mar 2020 #12

Have I been asleep Cozmo Mar 2020 #8

My healthcare has been split between Medicare, the VA, and my wallet... TreasonousBastard Mar 2020 #17

what people hear: I'm gonna take away your health care. Medicare for those who want solves msongs Mar 2020 #9

Back in the day, we were told that Medicare itself was too 'radical'/'socialist medicine'. pampango Mar 2020 #13

That's all he's got? Did he hear Biden? Look, MFA may or may not be our... TreasonousBastard Mar 2020 #14

Still doesn't explain how Congress will vote for it treestar Mar 2020 #15

I think COVID-19 has killed any forward momentum for Medicare for All... brooklynite Mar 2020 #16

Only Republicans think universal heath care is radical. betsuni Mar 2020 #18

Switzerland rejects single-payer in landslide, keeps its version of Obamacare Gothmog Mar 2020 #20