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"The United States alone [among wealthy countries] treats health care as a commodity to be
distributed according to the ability to pay rather than a social service to be distributed
according to medical need."
— JAMA (2003), 290, 798
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Medicare and YouPays
October 9, 2020 --
I am 66 and I've had Medicare for a year.
My parents (may they rest in peace) had it, too (as do most 65+ Americans) and were pleased although,
in his last two days of life, my father was not afforded a private room in the hospital
(Mt. Sinai in New York City which we dubbed Mt. Cyanide) and we
-- an endless stream of family paying last respects and we three his distraught offspring --
had to tiptoe and whisper so as not to disturb the saintly heart patient in the other bed.
Medicare is no Rolls Royce.
And it's complicated! OK, I get the distinction between Parts A, B, C, and D. But that's just the beginning.