[MissBrattified]

Originally Posted by Light

My father on Medicare died of bone cancer but left no bills for me or my mother. He had a supplement policy with Humana that picked up the 20% Medicare doesn't pay.

The Humana plan cost my father nothing. Mother was on the same Humana plan when she passed and there was no cost.

My wife and I have Human Gold and it cost us nothing. Medicare takes $96.00 dollars a month ea from our SS.

We have never been denied care by Medicare or Humana.

My wife had surgery two weeks ago. It cost us $30.00 for the Hospital and $10.00 for the surgeon.

I say the government is doing all right with the existing health care why not expand it to all that want it.

My parents had a supplemental plan, too, but they were still stuck with quite a few bills they had to pay. Some of the largest ones were paid off with my father's insurance policies, and some others, my mother is still paying.

Regardless, my point was it doesn't work right for everyone, and if hospitals and doctors are having to manipulate the system just to get adequate care for their patients, then it obviously isn't as streamlined as it needs to be. Medicare has been around for a LONG time; you'd think they'd have worked out the kinks by now.

I'm not opposed to health care reform. I'm just opposed to a LOT of the bill that is being debated right now, and that is partially because of the content of the bill itself, and partially because I don't trust liberals to have our best interests at heart.