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Honeycombe8

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50. Oh, I made it to Medicare.

Sat Mar 9, 2019, 05:53 PM

Mar 2019

Yay! Only because I was healthy. I went to the doctor only twice in those five barren years. Once to urgent care for a dog bite (cost $75). One preventive exam, which is supposed to be free but cost me about $100. I paid more than the ins. co. for that exam. The ins. co. got almost $1,000/mo. premium for that worthless "insurance." I could have it only because of the subsidy.

Medicare works because it is a defined "group." And the insureds can choose the types of coverage they get through supplemental plans. The defined "group" has the power of the group behind it, where things are standardized. Whereas for the ACA, it was just millions of individuals who couldn't alter the types of coverage, and didn't have the protection of a "group." It was also too confusing for both insureds and providers, esp with the billing.

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California man learns he's dying from doctor on robot video [View all] Judi Lynn Mar 2019 OP

Sheesh. What a heartless way to treat a patient and his family. nt SunSeeker Mar 2019 #1

To the hospital's defense, they only sent in the bestest of celebrity robot. TheBlackAdder Mar 2019 #58

LOL SunSeeker Mar 2019 #59

Not surprised it was Kaiser. lilactime Mar 2019 #2

Yep, not surprised at all. Tikki Mar 2019 #3

That was the first thing that came to me. Haggis for Breakfast Mar 2019 #6

Holy shit. I was going to say it was probably Kaiser (without reading the article)... C Moon Mar 2019 #11

Me either. n/t MBS Mar 2019 #14

+1 2naSalit Mar 2019 #22

Same here customerserviceguy Mar 2019 #30

+1,000 !! CountAllVotes Mar 2019 #49

Wow. Kaiser, your bedside nabber sucks. iluvtennis Mar 2019 #4

Fucking Kaiser...no surprise there. I've had Kaiser for 35 years now, because PatrickforO Mar 2019 #5

Now will do just fine. It's so desperately needed. n/t Judi Lynn Mar 2019 #7

They're all like that. Honeycombe8 Mar 2019 #18

To be fair LogicFirst Mar 2019 #28

Oh, I made it to Medicare. Honeycombe8 Mar 2019 #50

Look for more of this, it'll be normalized like other breaches appalachiablue Mar 2019 #8

Kaiser Dem2theMax Mar 2019 #9

UNless they want to live in Idaho... 2naSalit Mar 2019 #23

Wow. No surprise from Kaiser. But, wow. Curtis Mar 2019 #10

I learnt it from the doctors computers.. TomVilmer Mar 2019 #12

Yay! Glad you're still here lostnfound Mar 2019 #15

Thanx! TomVilmer Mar 2019 #19

That's wonderful... lostnfound Mar 2019 #44

"regret falling short" of the patient's expectations. Says it all. Regret. marble falls Mar 2019 #13

It seems like the future we were Turbineguy Mar 2019 #16

Wow. Words escape me. Talk about being just a number and not a person. nt Honeycombe8 Mar 2019 #17

From tbe article...Michelle Gaskill-Hames, senior vice president of Kaiser Permanente Greater Southe irisblue Mar 2019 #20

"tele-visit" ????? Iggo Mar 2019 #37

a sub unit of tele-medicine irisblue Mar 2019 #38

Easy to say if you live within driving distance of a hospital Recursion Mar 2019 #60

And I thought getting told by phone "Uh, we see a gigantic lung and liver tumor".... moriah Mar 2019 #62

tRumpsters are always crying about death panels, I guess their rightwing for profit healthcare yaesu Mar 2019 #21

+1 2naSalit Mar 2019 #24

If it was a rich white patient you can bet they wouldn't have used a robot. OregonBlue Mar 2019 #34

That is true, just like our justice system, there is a special tier for those who have big bucks. nt yaesu Mar 2019 #35

Obamacare is the free market's last chance to take care of the US. They have two years. mjvpi Mar 2019 #25

"Regret falling short".... 'of the patient's expectations'.......... regrettable apology. BlancheSplanchnik Mar 2019 #26

Are there no doctors in Fremont? UpInArms Mar 2019 #27

Wow. That was exceedingly cold. Chemisse Mar 2019 #29

They don't give a damn about the the patients, dying or otherwise workinclasszero Mar 2019 #31

This is what our world of health care has come to. We need change now. FM123 Mar 2019 #32

I don't know why Kaiser has such a bad rap. I have had nothin but caring and ptofessional Dream Girl Mar 2019 #33

From my own experience with the medical Maxheader Mar 2019 #36

"..."regret falling short" of the patient's expectations."" yonder Mar 2019 #39

Fuck his regret. Iggo Mar 2019 #42

what's wrong with it? eezapata Mar 2019 #40

Wow. Iggo Mar 2019 #43

It's not limited to machines..... aka-chmeee Mar 2019 #41

This dovetails along with us not having a right to healthcare in this country. area51 Mar 2019 #45

The patient couldn't even hear the robot well because the robot couldn't move in close enough. suffragette Mar 2019 #46

It won't be too long until we get Terminators MrScorpio Mar 2019 #47

It's not like this was Dr. Max Headroom ... it was a live video call, with a real, remote doctor SFnomad Mar 2019 #48

"Ernest Quintana's family...were devastated when a robot machine rolled into his room..." Iggo Mar 2019 #51

"[The] family knew [Ernest] was dying of chronic lung disease when he was taken by ambulance SFnomad Mar 2019 #53

Yeah, it's Ernest Quintana's fault for having higher expectations that he expected to be NBachers Mar 2019 #52

And then the doctor packed his Golf Clubs into his BMW/Audi and went golfing like nothing happened. ansible Mar 2019 #54

Well, that's pretty much the opposite of the movie Patch Adams. Xolodno Mar 2019 #55

Telemedicine has its place Sgent Mar 2019 #56

When I compare this to how my dad went (pancreatic cancer), it raises the hair on my neck DFW Mar 2019 #57

So, should the remote doctor *not* have told them his prognonsis? Recursion Mar 2019 #61