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JayneWoody's avatar

Let me be clear, I am 83 and still kicking. Wish I could be more positive about the healthcare in this country, but I am, after all, in my dotage and on Medicare. Just had a bit of a shock when I went to pay for a Rx and the pharmacy informed me that it was $160.00, when I had been paying somewhere around $60.

I am now in the so called “donut hole”, and i’d like to know who came up with that asinine term..it is the gap that I will stay in until I have paid my way out of the donut to the tune of around $7,000. My daughter said that it’s supposed to change next year, but we will see. Thank goodness I live with her and get the benefit of “free stuff” like room and board. I contribute where I can and she gets to take me off her taxes as a dependent. I have been retired for a number of years now, but I can remember living on my own with $ to spare with less that I receive now, and now I don’t know how I would make it without my family. Good news is that Tim in great health and aiming for 100 and at least I will outlive Cheeto, which makes me proud.

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Donna Huttenlock's avatar

Our healthcare system has been broken for a very long time. 20 years ago two of my doctors told me I needed surgery (a hysterectomy). My insurance company said no. That although I did have the three items from column A and four from column B they required the insurance company said my tumors were not big enough. Yet. Thankfully both my doctors fought with them and won. I sure the system has only gotten worse since then.

Now we have elected a government that also wants to tell women what they can and can’t do and what they need and don’t need. I cannot imagine how many may die in the next four years because of this.

As for Mangione - I know he had a surgery. I guess we don’t know if it didn’t turn out as doctors said it would or thought it would. But he did have the surgery. I am assuming his doctor’s request was not denied. Or if it was his family could pay for it.

But either way taking the life of someone else is a horrible thing. He needs to be held accountable and prosecuted for his actions.

We cannot make him into a folk hero.

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