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RED TAPE

Did you know that a third of medical costs are for the bureaucracy? Read this:

Treated for Illness, Then Lost in Labyrinth of Bills

We only get a small amount of this kind of thing. We get a Medicare accounting. We get a Blue Cross accounting.

For each visit. Weeks and months late.

I have no idea what most of it means.

We wait for the Doc's bill, if any. Mostly none.

I won't give in to it.

I also have the Medicare book on the new drug program. It is an inch thick.

Big type; but an inch, nonetheless.

I am planning on not reading it and letting our supplemental provider Blue Cross make an offer. We have drug coverage so it is a simple matter to wait it out.

For others who are in HMOs and the like, it is a nightmare of 'what to do'?

My old slogan is 'when in doubt do nothing'. But many cannot afford that approach.

Now, I see there is a new layer of bureaucracy.

The explainers. You can call and get help from someone to get through it.

Of course, they are baffled too. It is like the service departments you call in the corporate world. Well, it IS the fucking corporate world!

Universal government controlled healthcare anyone? I vote YES!