Reading the news. How depressing. And what will the stock market do today? On a related note; I wonder how my Senator/Representative's retirement plans are doing? I'd hate to have them worried during these trying times.
And speaking of 'government' as I was, I wandered through the Medicare web pages last night in search of information. I know; silly me… a fool's errand! But I had to see if I could navigate through the twists and turns of bureaucratic jargon and acronyms. What a trip! (They have a webpage devoted to acronyms…hundreds of them! Which you can download onto an Excel spreadsheet…if you wanted to. Why?)
You couldn't have designed a worse website than this if you had tried for years. But…they had a head start. They were writing stuff like this long before there was an internet. All I wanted to know was whether or not a specific procedure would be paid for. Shouldn't you be able to look up the procedure by its name or names and read a 'Yes' or a 'No'?
Today my search continues. I'm hoping that I will find a web page that will translate the Medicare pages for me.
Yeah, even with "socialized" healthcare in Canada, we still have the same problem! I don't understand why the insurer (in our case, the guvmint) is so secretive about what they'll cover and what they won't!
ReplyDeleteIt sure makes decision making/budgeting tough.
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