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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: 25 Jun 91 16:23:37 GMT
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  Hi Philip, you hit one of the nails on the head about discrimination
and disabilities. Yes learning disabilities and other mental illnesses
or very low on their list and also maintain much stricter rules for
eligibility. If all else fails then the other option open to you is to
apply under regular welfare and that will give you medicade medical
coverage at least. Yes, legislation has to been done to remedy the
situation, but that also means severe tax increases. When an entity has
said numbers of dollars to spread they have to set some standard or
priority for spending them, inorder to equate the inequity they have to
get more than the now said dollars. Not easy. One of the things that may
be considered that would be basically fair (though would tend to put a
lot of people in a severe bind) would be to allocate everything fairly.
For example provide insulin, hearing aides and mental hospital bills and
fund this by cutting the percent that they approve across the board to
60%. This would make it a fair system, while not neccessarily making it
a workable system. Another approach to work for is forffordable coverage
under the regular existing insurance companies and getting benefit
coverage for some under that system and then freeing up some of SSA and
SSI money. That is something that should realy be pushed and advocated
for.
                   Pandora

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