Blog 3: Medicare
in the Elderly
Vontresa
Blog 3:
As
a person who loves to help less fortunate people or people that are not aware
of charity programs in the healthcare filed my heartfelt passion are for and to
the children and elderly in this world. As a Social Worker/ Public
Administrator, I try to stay abreast on the different types of healthcare
programs and what they have to offer all people. At the beginning of this year
my Grandmother/ Matriarch of our family was suddenly diagnose with congestive
heart failure. We as a family were giving very few choices on what we could do
or our options. We were treated as though the questions we ask we were crazy.
My Grandfather had passed years ago and had provided for our family, especially
my grandmother and left her comfortable. All of their children have excellent
jobs and makes great money. My grandmother had one of those Medicare plans to
supplement her health insurance. She had been in the hospital off and on
without a proper diagnose over the years. Finally one of her daughters that
live in Atlanta and works for a well known hospital diagnose her with been over medicated. When she fell sick the very last and final time she had
exhausted all of her healthcare and it seems as though the family cash was no
good. The doctors gave up and within a week she had passed.
OK,
I said all of that to say, once the main health insurance had ran out and
Medicare had been exhausted, it seemed as though the doctors nor the hospital
cared that this was someone family member. Oh yes, I spoke up loud and made
sure that my voice was heard during the whole process. It is sad when Medicare
have a grace period that a person can reach and be cut off. I was so shocked.
Once that grace period has been reached, the hospital will send the patient
home with a bogus excuse and plenty of numbing medication to expire on. This
has been seen all over the world and some hospital have been sued due to
neglect and negligent.
As
a Public Administrator, it is good to be aware of the Medicare as well as the
Medicaid rules. Knowledge is the key to understanding. Although Medicare has no
lifetime limit benefits, there is a benefit period in which my Grandmother
encountered. Be aware.
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