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A short conversation with Medicare: Never happened. They never pick up the phone, and they don't have any other way to contact them after you applied for benef
by p1esk 5y ago
A short conversation with Medicare:
Never happened. They never pick up the phone, and they don't have any other way to contact them after you applied for benefits. I tried for weeks to resolve an issue with an application for my father, a dozen of calls, every time being on hold for hours. Sometimes the automated system says "leave your number and someone will call you back tomorrow at a certain time". That's a lie, no one has ever called back.
- throwoutway 5y agoIf this is what we have to look forward to when Congress eventually makes a nationwide health insurance, I’m not going to be happy
- bscphil 5y agoWait, so the two examples given are someone who can't figure out what their out-of-pocket costs will be, and someone who hasn't heard back about an application, and your conclusion is that universal health insurance, which wouldn't have any out-of-pocket costs or out-of-network doctors and wouldn't have applications because everyone would already have it ... would be a bad thing? That seems a very strange conclusion to me. Health care in the US is a mess right now, public or private, largely because of the mess caused by extreme privatization. Half of the problems people have with health care would vanish overnight if we had universal health coverage.
- protomyth 5y agoI assure you the full health care provided by IHS would cause a new revolution if applied to the rest of the US population.
- adgjlsfhk1 5y agoit still will be better than what we have now. medicare spends 95% of it's budget on health care. most private insurance spends 20 to 30% on hiring people to make up reasons to deny your claim.
- plankers 5y agoif we force the rich use the same system the poor use, wait times will plummet.
- iaw 5y agoI feel like more an more having a lawyer on retainer is the only answer to this type of crap.
- crossroadsguy 5y agoCan you bill them for the lawyer cost?
- protomyth 5y agoI know this is going to sound odd, but this is the exact thing you call your House Reps office and explain your problem. The https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representati... site will give the phone number, but their website often has a local office number. Most effective Congress folks staffs know how to deal with this type of thing.