Medicare Advantage Plans Often Deny Needed Care, Federal Report Finds

[panfluteman]

19. I Am Now Experiencing This First Hand.

After returning from Mexico, and at the start of this year, I switched to a Medicare Advantage Plan, and since then, trying to find care has been a total nightmare. Everything, all the contact info, that could be gotten wrong about the personal physician I selected - even his gender - and his given name is Mohamed - they got wrong, and now I am fighting coverage bills. Geez, the bozos at my Medicare Advantage plan would even flunk out of third grade history class! Many times I wish I had stayed in Mexico, where I could get access to healthcare fairly cheaply for my relatively modest healthcare needs, just by going down to a local pharmacy, where they had consulting physicians on staff. And my Spanish was perfectly adequate for the occasion. As I age - this coming Tuesday will be my seventieth birthday - my metabolism, which was never very fast or strong to begin with - is slowing down, with increasing blood sugar problems. The sedentariness of the COVID lockdown didn't help either. Anyway, I have been managing my blood sugar problems with diet, exercise and, very importantly, medicinal herbs, up until now, but it's getting to be more and more of an uphill battle, with increasing blood sugar spikes and signs and symptoms of high blood sugar when I forget to take my herbs. The big question is: can I find care in time? I am now urgently trying to find care with a new primary care provider before my 70th birthday, while I am making major changes in my diet and regimen to stay on top of things. Stay tuned!