Medicare Health Insurance, in a nutshell:
> >
> > The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello."
> > "Mrs. Ward, please." "Speaking"
> > "Mrs. Ward, this is Doctor Jones at the Medical Testing
Laboratory.
> > When your doctor sent your husband's biopsy to the lab yesterday,
> > a biopsy
> > from another Mr. Ward arrived as well, and we are now uncertain
> > which one
> > is
> > your husband's. Frankly the results are either bad or terrible."
> > "What do you mean?" Mrs. Ward asks nervously.
> > "Well, one of the specimens tested positive for Alzheimer's and
> > the other
> > one tested positive for AIDS. We can't tell which your husband's
is."
> > "That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs.
Ward.
> > "Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive
> > tests one
> > time."
> > "Well, what am I
> > supposed to do now?"
> > "The people at Medicare recommend that you drop your husband off
> > somewhere
> > in the middle of town. If he finds his way home, don't sleep with
> > him.
> >
> > The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello."
> > "Mrs. Ward, please." "Speaking"
> > "Mrs. Ward, this is Doctor Jones at the Medical Testing
Laboratory.
> > When your doctor sent your husband's biopsy to the lab yesterday,
> > a biopsy
> > from another Mr. Ward arrived as well, and we are now uncertain
> > which one
> > is
> > your husband's. Frankly the results are either bad or terrible."
> > "What do you mean?" Mrs. Ward asks nervously.
> > "Well, one of the specimens tested positive for Alzheimer's and
> > the other
> > one tested positive for AIDS. We can't tell which your husband's
is."
> > "That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs.
Ward.
> > "Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive
> > tests one
> > time."
> > "Well, what am I
> > supposed to do now?"
> > "The people at Medicare recommend that you drop your husband off
> > somewhere
> > in the middle of town. If he finds his way home, don't sleep with
> > him.