If you or parents are on Medicare and have to deal with cancer:

[madfloridian]

Read this:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040908/hl_nm/health_medicare_cancer_dc

I starting posting about this last October. I have gotten very little attention to it. I hope people will notice now and start yelling. We have dealt with cancer this year, and with Medicare. So far so good. Very little out of pocket. HOWEVER this is going to change now.

SNIP..."WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Medicare payment cuts will leave more than half of clinics and doctors' offices that provide cancer-fighting chemotherapy unable to cover costs of some key drugs, oncologists said on Wednesday."

SNIP..." The reductions may be close to double what the government anticipates, according to a survey of pricing data by the American Society of Clinical Oncologists.


The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has estimated an 8 percent average cut in reimbursements for chemotherapy and other medicines. ASCO concluded the reduction would average 15 percent for the 100 practices it surveyed...."

I am sending this article to my congressman. I hope others will not pay attention. Even if a person is not on Medicare yet, they may have parents of grandparents on it. Someone will pay for this.

MODS: I posted this twice accidentally, because it told me it did not post. So I posted again above. Just got a message that board was not available, so now there are two.