WHEN YOU GET TOO OLD TO BE COST-EFFECTIVE – Marilyn Armstrong
DISCOVERING I’M PART OF THE EMERGING DEMOCRATIC RESISTANCE (ALSO LEFTWING, SOCIALIST, AND NO DOUBT COMMUNIST) If you have asthma or any kind of chronic medical problem that requires continuing care and...
View ArticleTHE JOY OF MEDICARE – Marilyn Armstrong
I belong to Blue Cross Blue Shield Advantage Value Added PPO group, which is a Medicare plan that offers extras but costs just a tiny bit more than basic Medicare. Last night, in a moment of mindless...
View ArticleIF THE TRAINS DERAIL, RAISE THE RATES – Marilyn Armstrong
I finally had to tell Garry that I have one more stenotic, broken vertebra. L 4-5-6 were fused when I was 19. Despite a lot of abuse and arthritis, those three are still (more or less) fused. They...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A BIT OF ADVICE ON SURVIVING YOUR MEDICAL SYSTEM – Marilyn Armstrong
I’m alive for two major reasons: Because I didn’t take a lot of advice I was given. I had been misdiagnosed and had some bad doctors. Having learned my lessons the hard way, I did my homework and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
MEDICARE AND WHERE ARE MY GLASSES? – Marilyn Armstrong
An advertisement I couldn’t abide showed up on an email this morning, as follows: Content from Partnership for America’s Health Care Future American families can’t afford Medicare for All. Studies...
View ArticleCHANGING MEDICAL PLANS – MASSADVANTAGE
I want to start by saying working with Blue Cross was great. They aren’t the cheapest service (or the most expensive), but they know how to run a medical plan. They approve requests for medication...
View ArticleCOCHLEAR IMPLANTS, MEDICARE, AND ADVANTAGE PLANS
We have had BlueCross’s Advantage plan now for the past five years and I really have no complaints about them. They are as good a medical carrier as I have ever had. As a Medicare advantage plan, they...
View ArticleTHE COMPLEXITY OF SIMPLICITY
Although I expected this to happen — KNEW it would happen — it’s still one-of-those-things that makes me crazy. We changed medical plans this year, switching from BlueCross (great, but expensive) to...
View ArticleRERUNS, SURVIVAL, AND DRUG PRICES
ANOTHER YEAR ROLLS AROUND Yesterday was my 12th anniversary on this blog. I have written more than 12,000 posts and have just under 30,000 photographs in the media library. I have been a very busy...
View ArticleA DAY OF RECKONING
I’ve been fighting to get MassAdvantage to work with us rather than against us. We are their customers, people who use their doctors and hospital who they enlisted in this plan. This isn’t a national...
View ArticleA $400 DAY
It doesn’t take much. This used to be a lot of money, but now, it’s a mere pittance. We started out by putting gas in the car — $55.75. We couldn’t put it off any longer. Peter Pump was beeping.......
View ArticleNOT ENTIRELY GOOD WERE THOSE GOOD OLD DAYS
I went to school on Long Island, the one that lies off the coast of New York. I started school at 16, was married at 18, became a mother at 22 — and ran for State Senate as a Liberal... Read More ›
View ArticleMEDICARE TO SENIORS: WHY DON’T YOU JUST DIE?
If you’re on Medicare, that’s the message you’re getting. Out-of-pocket costs of Medicare have been going up annually, with ever-higher deductibles and premiums and a massive doughnut hole in...
View ArticleHOLISTIC MEDICINE FOR THE HOPELESSLY DELUDED
Ever since I turned 65, my medical care situation has been on a downhill slide. As long as was on MassHealth — Massachusetts Medicaid and the original model for “Obama Care” — I was good. I had all the...
View ArticleFORGING AHEAD WITH PURPOSE AND A HEADACHE
I have been depressed. Not that dark “can’t get out of bed” depression that some people get and that I have also experienced. This is the slow, grinding depression that accompanies having a lot of...
View ArticleGOP TO SENIORS: JUST DIE ALREADY
If you’re on Medicare, that’s the message you’re getting. Paul Ryan wants to bring back allowing insurance companies to refuse insurance based on pre-existing condition. In other words, if you’re...
View ArticleTHE TRASH GOES OUT MORE OFTEN THAN I DO
“We are made of sterner stuff than most people,” my son said. This was in answer to the question how come we hurt so much and still function. Well, sort of function. I have to admit I’m losing the...
View ArticleYOU ARE NOT COST-EFFECTIVE. PLEASE DIE.
OR, BECOMING PART OF THE EMERGING DEMOCRATIC RESISTANCE If you have asthma or any kind of chronic medical problem that requires continuing care and medication, that’s the message you are getting. We...
View ArticleWHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
The Senior Issue, by Rich Paschall Recently a friend of mine commented that if Congress cut Social Security and Medicare, they will see a lot of angry seniors vote them out of office. Many Republicans...
View ArticleKILLING PAIN – OUR LUDICROUS LAWS STRIKE AGAIN – Marilyn Armstrong
FOWC with Fandango — Ludicrous It’s ludicrous. I do not get up at 6 in the morning. But we did today. Why? Because the medication I need is only made by a single manufacturer and none of our local...
View Article
