The Medicare cuts start 4/1/2025

[ColonelAngus]

How much MORE should be spent on Medicare so that no one will die?

What is the number, annually? $10 trillion?

 

[g5000]

person: "I have a medical issue."
telehealth: "See your healthcare provider".

That's not how it works, dipshit.

 

[Crepitus]

It's funny how Trump is schlonging the people who voted for him.

What's even funnier is that they willingly bend over and assume the position. All lubed up and ready to go like good little bitches.

 

[g5000]

1. Is Telehealth worth its cost?

Yes, definitely. It prevents crowded waiting rooms, and it saves patients a lot of travel time just to get a presciption refilled.

Also, there are a lot of tests which can be done at home now. You'd be surprised at the various test kits and equipment which can be mailed to a patient and performed at home.

I joined the Million Veteran Program and they mailed me a device which does a blood draw. I was amazed. All I had to do was mail it back and they could check my blood for all kinds of disorders.

There are blood sugar kits you can buy over the counter and provide the results to your doctor who can then prescribe medication if you need to get your blood sugar down.

What's more, a doctor can order a blood draw via telehealth, then you travel to the closest clinic to have it done. So instead of a trip to the doctor, and then a trip to the clinic (which is often at a different location), you only have to make one trip.

Then when the results come in, the doctor can talk to you via telehealth and mail the necessary medications.

No more waiting forever in a waiting room or dealing with traffic. No more risk of being around people with infectious diseases in the waiting room.

I could go on and on.

2. Can we afford it without borrowing more money?

Anyone who thinks our deficit is because of telehealth is an idiot.

 

[The Duke]

YOu guys ready?

First to go is telehealth visits.

I'm not sure how that's gonna save money. I mean sure, they can cut the program but those people still need care, so they will need facilities to handle more in person visits. I can't see that being cheaper than telehealth visits.

Anyway, you can be sure this is just the opening salvo.

MSN

Just because your pinheaded ass can't see it doesn't mean a damn thing at all. It certainly doesn't mean it isn't so. You're not exactly the sharpest marble in the bag.

Blue balls ...

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[NewsVine_Mariyam]

Telehealth will still be available to the elderly, disabled or immune compromised.

Medicare IS for the "elderly" (65+)

 

[IM2]

Liberals have been sneaking illegal aliens into SS, Medicare and Medicaid for years. That was how they planned to destroy them.

This has been shown to you to be untrue. So stop repeating this;lie.

 

[g5000]

$1.6 trillion is spent ANNUALLY on tax expenditures.

You all are falling for a magician's oldest trick in the book.

Misdirection.

While Trump and the GOP are gifting the oligarchs, he's blaming the poor and the elderly.

 

[IM2]

Just because your pinheaded ass can't see it doesn't mean a damn thing at all. It certainly doesn't mean it isn't so. You're not exactly the sharpest marble in the bag.

He can't see it because it isn't so

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

Hey!!!

This isn't cut in benefits. Medicare rates didn't changed.

[We just eliminated one of the ways the elderly, disabled, and rural communities access those benefits.]

WW

If it's another thing that Medicare won't pay for then it's a decrease in benefits for the same cost.

 

[The Irish Ram]

$1.6 trillion is spent ANNUALLY on tax expenditures.

You all are falling for a magician's oldest trick in the book.

Misdirection.

While Trump and the GOP are gifting the oligarchs, he's blaming the poor and the elderly.

How much has he given to oligarchs? 0.
Link, for me, the clip of Trump blaming the poor and the elderly for anything...

 

[wamose]

I remember in the old days we'd just get the Mayo Clinic Book out and read about symptoms and cures. That was our telemedicine. Maybe Elon could get involved and apply AI to do the telemedicine, or whatever it's called. The thing is, and I don't know this for certain, but it seems like telemedicine has outpriced its usefulness, like so many other things in medicine and government.

 

[Mac1958]

YOu guys ready?

First to go is telehealth visits.

I'm not sure how that's gonna save money. I mean sure, they can cut the program but those people still need care, so they will need facilities to handle more in person visits. I can't see that being cheaper than telehealth visits.

Anyway, you can be sure this is just the opening salvo.

MSN

They're not thinking. They're just acting on rage & adrenaline.

Telemedicine has been a wonderful (and obvious) addition to health care. The industry worked for YEARS to get this to work. Incredibly cost efficient.

Okay. We'll see how that goes.

 

[ThisIsMe]

Medicare IS for the "elderly" (65+)

well, then theyll still have access

 

[WorldWatcher]

Telehealth will still be available to the elderly, disabled or immune compromised.

Not really.

1. You have to be in a medical facility to use it. (which kind of eliminates the idea of telehealth.)
2. In end state renal falure.
3. Suffering an accute stroke.
4. Receiving mental health services.

Anything else? Nope.

WW

Telehealth

Use telehealth insurance coverage through Medicare to get consultation & medical health services from care providers who aren't at your location.

www.medicare.gov

 

[JustAGuy1]

It's funny how Trump is schlonging the people who voted for him.

Rump didn't do it dumbass.

 

[ColonelAngus]

 

[ThisIsMe]

Not really.

1. You have to be in a medical facility to use it. (which kind of eliminates the idea of telehealth.)
2. In end state renal falure.
3. Suffering an accute stroke.
4. Receiving mental health services.

Anything else? Nope.

WW

Telehealth

Use telehealth insurance coverage through Medicare to get consultation & medical health services from care providers who aren't at your location.

www.medicare.gov

https://fox59.com/news/telehealth-will-soon-no-longer-be-covered-by-medicare/

Just going by this.

 

[WorldWatcher]

https://fox59.com/news/telehealth-will-soon-no-longer-be-covered-by-medicare/

Just going by this.

Understandable.

I posted the requirements from - you know - the actual Medicare/Teleheath website.

Try going by that.

WW

 

[JLW]

YOu guys ready?

First to go is telehealth visits.

I'm not sure how that's gonna save money. I mean sure, they can cut the program but those people still need care, so they will need facilities to handle more in person visits. I can't see that being cheaper than telehealth visits.

Anyway, you can be sure this is just the opening salvo.

MSN

The OP is 100% correct. This is the first step in cutting Medicare and doing away with full Medicare and putting all of us in advantage plans. After that, Social Security is on the chopping block. Can anyone say privatization. The MAGA sheep are just too enamored of Trump to give a damn about the truth. That is what sheep do.