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first of many charges
Posted:May 13, 2014 11:34 am
Last Updated:May 14, 2014 9:48 am
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I just learned from my online medicare page that the surgeon has already billed and medicare paid. I wonder what the robot charges, this is just the humans charge

surgeon charge 7001
medicare approved 2160
medicare paid 1693
my share 467 which my medicare supplement should pay

not cheap to get sick
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home
Posted:May 12, 2014 8:40 am
Last Updated:May 13, 2014 11:29 am
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well if you are reading this you know that I survived the surgery. The cancer in the prostate was a little more aggressive then originally thought. Fortunately it had not spread outside the prostate.

The catheter is finally out and it is just rehab now. His rehab includes Cialis and vacuum erection device. The first problem as many know is that your government insurance will not pay anything on Cialis. The script for that will cost me 385. The doctor works with a Canadian Pharmacy so that is probably what I will do since you can get generics in Canada. I find it interesting that Medicare Part B will pay some or all of the cost of the VED.

Guys if you ever listen favorable to anything I say just do yourselves a favor and get your PSA checked. If caught early enough it is easier to fix the problem
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words
Posted:Apr 19, 2014 1:25 pm
Last Updated:Apr 20, 2014 12:12 pm
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Words have a way of communicating maybe different emotions. There are words of happiness, anger, hate, good or bad news among many others.

Earlier this year I heard 3 words that brought on fear and depression. These 3 words will bring much happiness to Obama supporters and haters of us who believe in smaller less intrusive government.

The 3 words I heard were "YOU HAVE CANCER". I am going in for surgery on May 5 so will see what happens. It is prostate cancer so when the prostate sex is any will be changed for the rest of my life, which at my age my not be much longer. Most of you will be unhappy to learn that it is contained in the prostate and has not gone to other parts of my body.

The only advice, if any will listen, is to have your PSA done. That is how they found mine along with a prostate biopsy. If the biopsy is done right you only feel pressure from the probe and a little prick when they take usually the 12 samples from the prostate.
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seniors will lose doctors as medicare advantage under attack by Obamacare
Posted:Dec 5, 2013 10:25 am
Last Updated:Dec 6, 2013 1:56 pm
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I KNOW THIS IS TRUE BECAUSE IT HAS HAPPENED TO ME FOR NEXT YEAR. Any other plans in my area are HMO's and my doctors are not part of them. I realize that the government owns me and has a right to dictate my life. Oh by the way my supplement costs me a 136 dollars a month.

Obamacare cuts to Medicare Advantage are putting the program "under attack" and may force many seniors to change their doctors, Republicans argued at a House committee hearing Wednesday.

"It's clear the Medicare Advantage program is under attack and these beneficiaries are beginning to feel the effect of more than $300 billion in direct and indirect cuts under Obamacare," said Georgia Republican Rep. Phil Gingrey, during the House Energy Health and Commerce Committee hearing, reports The Washington Examiner.

"Individuals are losing coverage that they are happy with and the doctors with whom they are comfortable with, and this is a tragedy," added Gingrey, a physician.

But Democrats at the meeting argued that the cuts will preserve the program and improve it by offering free check-ups and other new and less expensive benefits.

A Kaiser Family Foundation report says that around 500,000 seniors will have to switch their health plans and be forced to switch doctors because of cuts to managed care programs in 2014.

But Democrats accused Republicans of "fear-mongering."

"The Republicans basically think the Affordable Care Act is the end of the world," said New Jersey Rep. Frank Pallone, the committee's ranking Democrat.

Obamacare will cut some $716 billion from the entire Medicare program over the next 10 years, with $308 million in cuts coming just from the Medicare Advantage managed care program.

More than one-quarter of all Medicare users are enrolled.

In 2010, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services said that cuts to Medicare Advantage cut enrollment up to 50 percent after the government terminates its contracts with doctors, forcing seniors back to traditional Medicare.

For example, in New York, where UnitedHealthcare cut 2,100 doctors from the Medicare Advantage program, around 8,000 patients had to find new doctors.

Republicans on Wednesday said the changes are a violation of President Barack Obama's promise that nobody would lose their doctors or insurance under Obamacare.

But Joe Baker, president of the Democratic-leaning Medicare Rights Center, said the savings "are producing positive returns for the Medicare program overall, benefitting both current and future beneficiaries," and argued that Medicare Advantage enrollees "have too many choices" in health care plans and would benefit if the options were narrowed.

American Action Forum President Douglas Holtz-Eakin, an Obamacare critic, said most Medicare Advantage recipients are low-income seniors living in rural areas, meaning they'll have less access to benefits and care, reports The Daily Caller.

"Much of Medicare Advantage's value is based on the plan's ability to innovate and offer needed additional benefits," Holtz-Eakin said, "both of which are compromised in the face of large payment rate cuts."
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another government medical website down
Posted:Nov 1, 2013 11:03 am
Last Updated:Nov 13, 2014 12:20 pm
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We all have heard about the train wreck with the obamacare website now the last few days the mymedicare site cannot be found.

That dam tea party and Ted Cruz must have highjacked them and
holding them hostage. We all know what a bunch of terrorists
they seem to be. Either that or the entitlement crowd has
hacked into them.
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Obama, Boehner Announce Agreement to Raise Debt Ceiling, Avoid Default
Posted:Oct 8, 2013 9:15 am
Last Updated:Nov 13, 2014 9:58 am
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This an All Barak Channel (ABC) report from 2011 that appeared on the internet.

I guess Obama must have forgotten this happened or he is misleading the public when he said the debt ceiling never had negotations and I know he would never mislead the country.

It took the threat of economic collapse and a long, contentious negotiation — and there will still be votes in Congress before it’s truly done — but lawmakers from both parties and the White House have reached a deal to raise the nation’s credit limit — the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling — by $2.4 trillion, likely through 2012.

If you want to read the whole article you can search on the about title.
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pholo id required
Posted:Aug 11, 2013 12:19 pm
Last Updated:Aug 11, 2013 4:27 pm
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Yesterday trying to park at Animal Kingdom in Disneyworld there was a new regulation in place. In order to park, annual passholders had to show photo id along with their annual pass.
Apparently they have had passholders give their passes to non-passholders as a way to avoid paying for parking. This seems like unfair to the people who go by the rules, but in America today rules are for somebody else.

It is weird the various things that are know requiring photo id to verify who u are, but can always count on voting without having to prove who you are.
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lights out on another Solar company
Posted:Aug 3, 2013 4:44 pm
Last Updated:Aug 7, 2013 1:12 pm
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Here in the Orlando area there was a solar company called Blue Chip Energy. They had a place that employed around 200 people.
They manufactured their own panels so they were not from China.

The company has gone bankrupt and there was an auction selling off whatever assets they had. It also has been reported that some of the solar panels might not pass inspection even though they have government approval stickers on the panels.

They were in the process of putting in a fairly large solar farm that would have had 170000 panels. The thing that was neat about this project is that it was next to an electric substation so it would have been fairly easy to tie the two together.

This situation strikes me personally since we had a electric system installed on our house a couple of years ago. Now I have to wonder if I have a panel problem since I already have had a fuse blow. Next problem will be hard to find somebody to fix it.

I know the big push is to go alternative energy and destroy the fossil fuel industry, but the track record for alternative energy is not good here.

I should have learned my lesson from my experience in late 70's. Had a solar system built into a house for heating and hot water when the house was built. Shortly afterwards the industry collapsed.
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Sales Tax Holiday
Posted:Aug 1, 2013 4:46 pm
Last Updated:Aug 3, 2013 4:33 pm
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This weekend has be declared Sales tax holiday for school shopping. The state suspends for almost all sales with some limits. This year they have included laptops up to 750 dollars and tablets.

Since sales taxes are one of the ways schools are funded we must have enough money to fund schools. We do not have an income tax so either sales or property taxes fund schools.

Guess I will get my new pair of sneakers this weekend. I have needed them for a month, but decided to wait to take advantage of no sales tax.
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media circus next scene in orlando area
Posted:Jun 9, 2013 3:52 pm
Last Updated:Mar 28, 2024 9:46 am
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A couple of years ago there was a media circus here during the trial of a mother suspected of killing her 2 yr old . The media covered this trial like somebody had killed the president or some other important person. There are these kind of cases all over the country, but for some reason this case took on massive national coverage.

Now tomorrow the next case will take center stage for media mania.
There is a trial of a man killing a teenage young man. the suspect followed the victim thinking he was up to no good. A fight occurred and the ended up dead. The national media is already here with their trucks to cover every burp in this trial. The media has already tried to turn this into a racial thing, but you have here is a Hispanic male and a black male. We have had Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson here demanding justice. Once they found out that the suspect was Hispanic they then decided that he was a white Hispanic. Always trying to turn this into white vs black.

I wonder where their wall to wall coverage was when a college student in Mississippi was murdered by three thugs who broke into his room. Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson did not rile up the people.

I am not sure that the true story of this unfortunately event will ever be known.
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