>>My parents and grandparents have had to schedule surgeries with a government, though. They get a date, they show up, they get the surgery, they get discharged

>>My parents and grandparents have had to schedule surgeries with a government, though. They get a date, they show up, they get the surgery, they get discharged, no bullshit, no surprise bills, no worrying over whether or not you actually owe money, or are just getting shaken down. Your parents experience, and my parents and grandparents (when they were alive) experience with medicare seems to be massively different. You do know that medicare does not cover 100%, and there is tangled web of Part B, Part D, Part E, Part Z coverage that cover some things, not others, and no one can ever tell you what is covered by who with private insurance and government all pointing fingers at each either.... and that is with getting into the fact that more and more private doctors are refusing to take medicare because of low reimbursement rates and slow reimbursement rates so you have to go into a big network or hospital network not a local small doctor office