>  -=> On 06-15-19  12:46,  Bob Ackley <=-
>  -=> spoke to Dale Shipp about Re: Biden is the Cure <=-
> 
>  BA> Politicians' attempts to control the health care system have 
failed 
>  BA> every time they've tried it.  Despite the propaganda, Medicare 
does
>  BA> not  and never has paid the cost of health care for the elderly
> 
> Medicare never claimed to pay 100% of the cost of health care -- it 
pays
> 80%.

Actually, Dale, it pays about twelve percent of the cost except in the 
case of my dialysis treatments, then it pays less than two percent.
Medicare's unlicensed cubicle dwellers routinely disallow about 85% of 
the charges on bills presented for payment and it then pays 80% of the 
remaining "allowable charges" - or twelve percent of the amounts billed.

I have a stack of EOBs on file that proves exactly what I just posted.

   Then there are supplemental plans that pay the rest.   I end up
> paying nothing for health care except for a modest deductable at the
> beginning of each year.

I have Tricare, which pays the 20% of the "allowable charges" that 
Medicare doesn't pay.  NOBODY pays the rest of it
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