Trumpcare benefits all wealthy people. It also benefits the young and healthy. Everyone else gets royally screwed. Are you among them?

We're on Medicare too Spunky and our supplemental insurance is Kaiser. At age 70 I was diagnosed with STAGE 3 Uterine cancer...carcinoma/sarcoma..rare I was told. I had a a 14% chance of survival for 5 years. My last chemo was October 3, 2008 and I'm still here! Now chemo cost me nothing. I had to have shots after every 3-day bout of chemop (I had six of those over a period of 7 months) and the week after that for 5 days in a row (six times) I had to go in to Kaiser for Nupogen shots. They cost $1000 a pop! I had 30 of them! My cost was nothing. I also had 25 days of radiation in a row. I don't know what the cost of that was but I paid nothing. The only thing I had to pay was for certain very expensive drugs so my bladder wouldn't fail. Those pills cost  $97each and every 3 weeks I had to take 27 of them! When I fell into that "gap" it cost me about $4500 out of pocket. After I reached that limit I went back to a very low co-pay. Saving my life cost Medicare/Kaiser hundreds of thousands of dollars. I don't how much actually. Maybe it cost a million! The chemo protocol they created for me was the toughest they could create. That's what they told me. (I only had one vein collapse once which was fortunate and unusual for someone my age). That was because the cancer I had was very rare and there was really no established protocol for it. Fortunately I was very healthy otherwise so I could withstand it. Two kinds of chemo drugs one of which was Ifex were pumped into me. I forget the name of the other one. If cancer had struck BEFORE I was eligible for Medicare we would have been bankrupted and I would have died anyway.  I don't know when Paul Ryan and his Heinous Henchmen will focus on gutting Medicare but I'm sure it's on their list of things to do! They gutted Medicaid by 25%. They despise the poor, the ill, the elderly and the very young. I worry about what Trump will do..whom he will listen to. He doesn't give a rat's a** about anyone but himself and his family and the rich like him for whom he is always performing. I'm nothing. My life is worth nothing. I'm not important or wealthy or powerful or necessary. So I can be eliminated easily. Thing is there are MILLIONS of people just like me out here who worry about what will happen.  I'm 79 and Jim is 81. We are in the much "UNLOVED" group. Of course the crazy fat old man who makes decisions thinks he is forever young. At 70. Go figger! :( Thank you for your reply Spunky! :)

WOW - that is one heck of a protocol you went through.  You know what they say - what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.  Up until March, I had insurance under my employer, but when I decided to work only three days a week, I was not eligible for any benefits.  At that point, I was covered by Medicare, but I don't have a supplemental plan.  I have not been able to figure out which one I need.  The sickest I was in my entire life was in 2015 when I had unexplained fevers and other symptoms, but after a year's worth of tests, CT scans and a bone marrow biopsy, they were never able to diagnose whatever it was.  As it came, it went and now I'm back to normal.  My insurance covered all but my deductible which went to a high deductible once the ACA went into effect.  Still, what I paid was minor considering the cost of all the tests and an overnight stay at the hospital when I got sick at work and had to be taken there by ambulance.  That bill alone was over $14,000.00!  At that point, I had reached my deductible, so it cost me nothing.  I guess we'll just have to wait and see what the Senate does and hope that they have more concern for humanity than the House does. 

Happy Sunday, Rosie and I'm glad you're still around. :)

Hi Rosie:

What a horrible thing - sorry you had to go through all that and I'm very glad you're OK. But which part of the new bill - which may or may not actually pass in the Senate - affects that part of Medicare?