Questions for those on Medicare (or who have experience with it)

[Thirties Child]

59. Medicare is a blessing for us

Personal experience. We have supplemental insurance that is great for prescriptions, although we can get more and more of them for $4 from Kroger or WalMart. Medicare seems to always bring doctor's and hospital's prices way down. Last February my husbaand was in the hospital six days after a messy full knee replacement - the whole thing included a nuclear heart stress test, several visits by lurking cardiologists and tremendous delayed bleeding, which in the past has come close to killing him. The hospital bill was over $33,000 but after Medicare negotiated lower costs, and after our supplemental did whatever it does, we paid something like $1100. Later in 2012 he had two more minor surgeries on his knee, with platelet transfusions each time, as well as two procedures on a detached retina, and the cost has been negligble for all four. I mean neglible as in none for some of them.