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I think the author's point was that his father wouldn't have bothered to fill out the paperwork required by Medicare so the fact that the NHS is automatic allow
by aplusbi 14y ago
I think the author's point was that his father wouldn't have bothered to fill out the paperwork required by Medicare so the fact that the NHS is automatic allowed his father to have coverage.
- VLM 14y ago"his father wouldn't have bothered to fill out the paperwork required by Medicare" Having gone thru something kind of similar yet different with my own older relatives, the hospital has a blindingly obvious financial motivation to "help" elderly / senile patients with the paperwork, and therefore there are people on staff walking the halls doing precisely that. Seen it with my own eyes, this is not theoretical. As long as the dollars you can haul in from properly filled out medicare forms exceed the cost of hiring a ombudsman or coordinator or advocate or whatever the job title was...