Thread: Medicare stinks
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Old 02-19-2005, 12:30 AM
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I have been disabled for five years and am on Medicare. So far, I have not met or heard of one person who has had Medicare pay for ARtificial disc. Now today I read an article in the Orange County Register that was published earlier this week that discussed the Bone Morphegenic Protein used in fusion. Yess, antiquated fusion. Guess what? It states that Medicare won't pay for the BMP, and that fusion without BMP has a 20% failure rate. And that's just at one level. So what good is a government health program for the elderly and disabled if it won't pay for any of the improved new technology with a much higher success rate. ARe we Blue light specials?
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