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Originally Posted by BBQMan
Recently Medicare reimbursements for a number of procedures have been severely curtailed. My sister-in-law’s husband has a condition call Myasthenia Gravis. His case is severe and requires a blood cleansing treatment called plasmapheresis. The University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City has provided this treatment. The staff of the Medical Center has advised him that they can no longer afford to continue to provide these treatments at the reduced Medicare reimbursement rates.
These reductions in Medicare reimbursements are necessitated by the $500,000,000,000 cut in Medicare benefits needed to pay for the providing of medical care to the 30 million uninsured people in The United States.
John is not a wealthy man who can pay for these treatments out of pocket. The message to him from the Obama administration is, “Go home and die.” And he will die within no more than a year and probably within six months.
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This discussion leaves me shocked and nearly speechless. I'm disgusted at the attitudes of some of the posters. What the he** is wrong with you people? Yeah, well, just forget about somebody who worked their entire life and had money taken out of their paychecks every week. Their don't have that long to live anyway. As long as the government keeps taking to give to somebody else and we can pat ourselves on the back that we rammed it through whether you like it or not. That is all that matters.
I'm sorry BBQMan for my rant, but most of all what is happening in your family right now. May God bless you and yours this New Year.