between it and Medicare. I didn't know it until the next day when I went to pick up scripts. As soon as I made it back home, I called Medicare, explained what had been done and how can I undo it, and there wasn't any way possible that I could afford. So, we've been on MA now for 4 years.
It was okay... pretty good, actually, compared to my DoD healthcare plan I had before I retired... for all but the last year. I had a CTScan, and an MRI on my back and never had to pay a penny. This was about the time the ACA started. It stated that for diagnostics, these had no copays. I'd also never paid a copay for an x-ray on my chest or a broken bone.
This year, hubby had to have an x-ray on his chest and it cost $85 copay. I hit the roof! He had the same plan as me, and I didn't have to pay anything! What changed? The R's have been stripping ACA all along without our knowing about it.
I just got off the benefits department because my husband needs a CTScan for his chest, and an MRI on his brain. If we do it at the hospital where his PCP is located, it'll be a total of $700-800 copay for both. If we can find a free standing radiology bldg, it'll cut the cost all the way down to $600-700, plus the gas and the white knuckling through big city traffic. I'm so mad I've just seen red since then. Once again, we're back to paying for insurance that pays a pittance and puts the rest on our shoulders. This is NOT right! And especially not when SS isn't keeping up with inflation, at all. $10/pound hamburger... the cheapest cut of meat you can get... and I can't buy enough to make a decent meal that lasts for a couple of days. Worse, we're sitting here with $100 in the bank, and terrified to spend ANY money until the SS checks (hopefully) come in on Wednesday. This isn't right. I spent my entire life working, from the time I was 12yo.. and paid into SS that whole time. THIS is the retirement I get from that, reckoning. And they damned better well hope they're either dead by that time, or we are. Because their will be a LOT of us "Mangiones" by that time!
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