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How did old people access healthcare before Medicare?
Posted on 12/5/14 at 7:20 pm
Posted on 12/5/14 at 7:20 pm
I am not making a political statement at all in favor of the program. I am genuinely curious as to what folks did.
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Posted on 12/5/14 at 7:20 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
They paid for it.
Posted on 12/5/14 at 7:23 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
People went to their local Dr and paid him. Of course, not everybody had insurance so prices weren't so ridiculously high.
Posted on 12/5/14 at 7:31 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Died in the streets
Posted on 12/5/14 at 7:32 pm to jamboybarry
Past tense?
Posted on 12/5/14 at 7:33 pm to goatmilker
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Past tense?
Not since Obamacare whooohoooo!!!!
Posted on 12/5/14 at 7:33 pm to jamboybarry
quote:Or Republicans put them in wheelchairs and pushed them off a cliff. Whichever worked best.
Died in the streets
Posted on 12/5/14 at 7:37 pm to jamboybarry
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Died in the streets
Those days were a bleak.
Posted on 12/5/14 at 7:37 pm to jamboybarry
I saw a person who was dead as door nail rise from the gutters edge when he heard the news.
Then he fell dead again upon learning blacks were worse off now than 6 years ago.
Crazy world this.
Posted on 12/5/14 at 7:38 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
They went to the doctor?
Posted on 12/5/14 at 7:51 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
They paid their doctors with cash, and if possible carried a insurance policy that most people just called "hospitalization". It paid for major medical events requiring a hospital stay, and since same day surgery did not exist, just getting tonsils out resulted in several days in the hospital so the insurance covered it. Younger people did the same thing, health insurance that pays for routine doctor visits, lab work, etc, is a fairly recent concept.
Posted on 12/5/14 at 7:54 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
paid for it, and died before they ran out of money.
Posted on 12/5/14 at 8:53 pm to jamboybarry
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Died in the streets
Damn, that was going to be my answer.
Posted on 12/5/14 at 8:59 pm to MFn GIMP
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Damn, that was going to be TUba's answer.
Posted on 12/5/14 at 10:12 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
They had the common decency to die before they started costing lots of money.
Posted on 12/5/14 at 10:18 pm to alajones
Did they at least get end of life counseling like Obamacare gives them??
Posted on 12/5/14 at 10:20 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
quote:When they got sick, we took them into the woods and left them there.
I am not making a political statement at all in favor of the program. I am genuinely curious as to what folks did.
Posted on 12/5/14 at 10:38 pm to ShortyRob
Bankruptcy.
That's why it passed in Congress.
That's why it passed in Congress.
Posted on 12/5/14 at 11:16 pm to matthew25
It's probably more than that...
Posted on 12/5/14 at 11:17 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
They paid up or died.
Actually medical care was a lot cheaper < 1965 (it wasn't that good)
Actually medical care was a lot cheaper < 1965 (it wasn't that good)
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