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Aren't you tired of commercials? We do not know what to believe in anymore. I have been attentive to a highly increased number of, so called medicare, commercials, always produced by older actors, telling you that you can get additional money to your social security check, free meals, free dentures, free rides to medical appointments, in general, your life will cost you $0.00 if...Well, they do not tell you what you need to do but the simple truth is you must sign up for a private insurance plan that actually substitutes your regular medicare. Seniors, nothing in life is free. There is always something for something. I am not saying you cannot benefit from the changes from government-based Medicare to the private insurance substitute but please, read are everything but. How did it happen? How the small print. There are many seniors who is the most advanced country in the world are fit and healthy, and they see the doctor once a year for a check up. But there are many who have quite an extensive health record that requires continuum of care others get too much of it? I said before that frequently. You need to make sure that any The highly promised great health reforms change you make will not affect your care and its quality. Private insurance substitutes are coming dying from not having medical care and from large insurance companies like Humana, United Healthcare, or Blue Cross transparent to the world. What we can Blue Shield. They set up the plans for seniors believe in are the facts from the history. in lieu of the regular Medicare and they Iwould like you to read a great historical receive money from the regular Medicare summary of how our healthcare developed fund for seniors. Simply, instead of funding and got us where we are. The article is more Medicare, the government is diverting called The Health of a Nation' and is in the funds to private corporations, offering them Nov. 2, 2020 edition of New Yorker ( if you additional bonuses in order to re-direct wish, the office can provide you with a Medicare enrollment to the private industry. copy of the article). It describes the years So, where is the catch? These new plans Johnson, when the actual Medicare and work like private insurance. They can design the plan today and change it depending Medicaid were initiated, and how they on how the industry is doing. They can limit the number of visits to doctors, they line is that our country had many years in can limit the type of medications you take to a limited listing, it all depends. On many factors. Again, there will be people who will fit in nicely in that private insurance pattern. from the past. Perhaps we should look back But there will be many disappointments as and re-discover some of the key facts about well. And some people will have their care healthcare from the Great Society times. compromised. Healthy people mean healthy nation. We so uneducated about the health issues? And undertreated? And so diversified that some do not get healthcare at all and some we can hardly believe the news these days. have not come. Thousands of people are prevention for years. COVID-19 made it of Great Society campaign of President were transformed over the years, and what influenced that transformation. The bottom the history when almost everybody had health coverage protection. And while I always strive to look ahead, l also try to learn Michael Bukhalo, MD Arlington Dermatology 5301 Keystone Court Rolling Meadows, IL 60008 Tel. 847 392 5440 | www.arlingtondermatology.net