David Combs wrote:
Why am I posting this here (of all places)?

1: when I get real sick (someday), I might well be in
final bed at home, and sorely needing some repairs.
Maybe even "alternate" type repairs!

2: You guys here are clearly *really* smart (I've been
reading the group for YEARS -- heck, after just
an hour of so it is already pretty obvious).

3: From the amount of time and effort put into your
answers to questions, many, very many of you must
be retired. Thus over 65. Thus dealing with medicare.

4: Where else can I post this and be able to trust the
reply, that it's not from some salesman trolling
the medical newsgroups, and pretending to be unbiased?


OK -- here goes. Last year I hit 65, and am on medicare.

(I'm also in a hole right now -- a DONUT hole! These
company-owned politicians must get a real high out
of dreaming up these ways to screw us, huh?)

Anyway, that's all I have -- the basic part a or b or
whatever it is Medicare.

My question: is that enough?

This country has gone so far towards "nuthin for da people,
everything for da rich and da corporate" that if I do end
up sick, in hospital, I'll get a real awakening from my
belief that medicare will takes care of us.


On person said I should look into AARP for what they have;
several others said that they're insanely expensive
for what you get.


I suppose that just like with home insurance, you file a
big claim (wolf blew the house down, or whatever) and
you find out that small print says "no, that's not covered".

And likewise some companies are ~ok, and most horrible.

So, how about a thread on this. I bet that 50% of
us on alt.home.repair will be EXTREMELY interested
in the information shared in the thread.

Anyway, thanks so much!


You got a doc? If not, you should visit an internist.

When we were younger, we went to the doctor when we got sick. Now we go to
the doctor to KEEP from getting sick! Blood work every year or so, blood
pressure monitoring, look at that funny spot, etc.

Anyway, the folks in the doc's office can give you some good scoop on which
insurance companies they prefer. Their opinion, while not dispositive, is a
powerful vote.

Aside---
Remember, too, that you can pay a professional for their services, but you
can't pay them to care. The best twenty bucks I ever spent was for a giant
Hershey's chocolate heart given to my vet's office with a card signed by all
the two-leggers and four-leggers in our family.

I'm currently working on a project for my physician. Imagine a normal
lighting switch plate. Overlaid on the white switch plate is the
international blue logo for "male" (the one without the skirt). The opening
for the toggle switch is about at groin level on the stylized character. In
the lower right corner is the discrete notation: [VIAGRA (Sildenafil
citrate)].