On Wednesday I got my haircut by Cathe at Sir Guys in East Pasadena. Cathe has redecorated on a rock and roll theme which I really like. She has lots of excellent poster art from the 60’s an...Read More
About six months ago I started getting advertising in the mail about Medicare. By now I’ve received about a hundred. See the picture nearby. According to politicians Medicare is going brok...Read More
Complexity thy name is Medicare or diving in donut holes. Except for joking about the “Medicare Buffet” I have put off thinking about Medicare its costs and its complications for as long a...Read More
“If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it is free.” P.J. O’Rourke Today I am officially a Medicare Two Digit Midget. It is now less than ...Read More
In the last few weeks I have received a couple of pieces of mail about signing up for Medicare. I started a folder. What else can I do. 259 days to go. I’m not going to think about the cho...Read More
“A mother can take care of three or four children but three or four children can’t take care of a mother.” Christine Leventhal A very wise woman on the Prager Israel Trip during a co...Read More
Today I celebrate just 400 more days until I get to the Medicare Buffet. I can’t decide yet whether I will get the hip replacement or the bypass surgery first. But one thing is for sure. Ame...Read More
In exactly 800 days I will be eligible for the medicare buffet. I and about 3 million others will become eligible in 2012. My hip is starting to hurt but I can wait and so can the rest of my coho...Read More
One of the critiques of ObamaCare has been its proposal to use review panels to allocate medical resources to areas where the payoff would be best. On a micro scale this used to be called triage and...Read More