To those of you so opposed to any regulation of health care, and help for the millions of people without it, the following is an example of corporate greed and the fleecing of Medicare and the retired people on fixed incomes.
My wife was hospitalized last July for less than 40 hours. While there, she was given her daily medications that she takes at home. When Medicare was billed, it was billed as a outpatient and Medicare refused to pay for her daily meds.
The following is a list of meds given and the charges for those drugs: Two multi-vitamins, $1.65 each (cost at Sam’s Club, 7.5 cents each); two statin pills for cholesterol, $22.86 each (cost at Walmart, 9 cents each); 16 fish oil capsules, $4.40 each (cost at Sam’s Club, 10 cents each).
There were other meds given, but I think you can see the pattern here: 1,000-2,000 percent profit and who pays? The taxpayer and the retired seniors, since Medicare did not pay and my private secondary insurance did not pay either. The hospital did discount the bill, but this still left me with a substantial amount to pay.
We are not complaining about the quality of care she received. The staff is full of good, hardworking people, but we think their billing costs are outrageous.
Donald Keene
Bristol, Va.
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