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From: Pandora.Nigh@f3.n157.z1.fidonet.org (Pandora Nigh)
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Subject: Re: medicare
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Date: 5 Jun 91 12:55:29 GMT
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  Hi Susan, this gets into the mix up again between Medicare and
Medicaid or simular state programs. Social Security handles Medicare and
you must pay for medicare. Medicare payments can come out of your Social
Security Disability check, or
seniors may opt to purchase it on their own if they are not covered
under Social Security. Social Security does not automatically asume that
you will take SSA medical coverage just because you qualify under SSA
for a disability you have to sign up for it and have the premiums
deducted from your monthly check. On the other hand SSI which is
Supplemental Income automatically comes with Medicade and if you also
qualify under SSA they will pay the SSA part A and B premiums for you so
that that amount is not deducted from your check. Medicade is funded by
the state and also the fed. gov. but the state runs Medicade. If you
have a problem with Medicade you contact your state or county welfare
office. If the problem or you are appealing a claim for SSA then you
must call Social Security.
   What gets even worse is if you are in a state that doesn't have
medicade then almost anything goes. You can get Nadine started on that
one real well. Of course private insurance companies and HMOs run a
whole other story. If you can qualify for Medicade you will be better
off than being covered only by SSA. Medicade will pay for and covers
more than Medicare, and it doesn't have a deductible and percentage of
coverage either. Medicare seems to love to up the deductible and lower
the coverage every year. Plus some of the things that they won't handle
just don't make sense.  Considering that the majority of people that are
covered by Medicare are elderly and that one of the top 3 problems that
the elderly suffer is hearing loss, Medicare doesn't cover hearing
aides. I guess we should have figured anything that is setup by committe
and by politicians would come to great leaps of logic  and sense like
not covering hearing aides for the population that would need them.
                                             Pandora

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