This is like a cruel joke...its like saying if you are not diagnosed with a disease you don't have it. All anyone need to look at is the incidences of people g

This is like a cruel joke...its like saying if you are not diagnosed with a disease you don't have it. All anyone need to look at is the incidences of people getting a chronic condition as soon become medicare eligible. Its like magic people are healthy, then they receive Medicare and they get chronic conditions...no they had the chronic condition they just weren't diagnosed and treated until Medicare eligible. Medicare Patient Chronic Condition Statistics: Over one half of beneficiaries less than 65 years had two or more chronic conditions compared to: Sixty-three percent of those 65-74 years, • Seventy-eight percent of those 75-84 years and, • Eighty-three percent of beneficiaries 85 years and older. If people were covered and had access to care then the incidences would dramatically go down, instead we all but ensure by the time they hit Medicare and the taxpayers pick up the bills they have multiple expensive chronic conditions that have gone undiagnosed and untreated for years.