Medicare & other state benefits
Jun 6th 2006, 8:01 pm
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Re: Medicare & other state benefits
Originally Posted by Vash the Stampede
Could be because the Yanks' healthcare system is also called "Medicare"... perhaps the poster is confusing Australia with America? 
Jun 6th 2006, 10:15 pm
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Re: Medicare & other state benefits
Originally Posted by Vash the Stampede
Where did you get the idea that there's a 2 year waiting list for income support or Centrelink?
(THANK god Matts head din't explode before October, we would have been in the crap BIG time!!! :scared: )Also to the OP we have no private health and havn't needed it and we came on a 139. Medicare have been fantastic and if we had private health we would have been possibly thousands out of pocket by now with my husbands scans, ops, home care and subsequent ongoing rehab
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Jun 6th 2006, 11:17 pm
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Re: Medicare & other state benefits
Don't forget that they will take UK income into account when doing the figures.
Jun 7th 2006, 2:37 am
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Re: Medicare & other state benefits
Originally Posted by hevs
Because on a 139 there is (THANK god Matts head din't explode before October, we would have been in the crap BIG time!!! :scared: )
Also to the OP we have no private health and havn't needed it and we came on a 139. Medicare have been fantastic and if we had private health we would have been possibly thousands out of pocket by now with my husbands scans, ops, home care and subsequent ongoing rehab
(THANK god Matts head din't explode before October, we would have been in the crap BIG time!!! :scared: )Also to the OP we have no private health and havn't needed it and we came on a 139. Medicare have been fantastic and if we had private health we would have been possibly thousands out of pocket by now with my husbands scans, ops, home care and subsequent ongoing rehab
Medicare covers a lot of those scans anyway, I think Hevs. The only real use a Private health fund has been to me personally, Is so I could dictate the timing of operations to coincide with the World cup.
On my little op last week, HCF covered 70 pct of the costs, (163 bucks per month family cover) the Gap was 440 bucks to the surgeon and 100 bucks to the hospital, and for some reason Medicare paid the anesthetist.
Hope all is going well
Jun 7th 2006, 4:21 am
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Re: Medicare & other state benefits
Originally Posted by movetoperth
Why should Americans be different from everyone else?
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Jun 7th 2006, 4:42 am
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Re: Medicare & other state benefits
Originally Posted by kevinbloomfield
Cos generally they have bigger mouths and even bigger stomachs?
Jun 7th 2006, 4:53 am
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Re: Medicare & other state benefits
Originally Posted by hevs
Because on a 139 there is
Jun 9th 2006, 2:19 am
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Re: Medicare & other state benefits
Originally Posted by ozzieeagle
I totally agree with this, the most of expensive part of health care we have come across so far, has hardly been covered. We would have to pay the best part 90 bucks per week to get anywhere near covering 50 pct of the total price. Thats Orthodontic work on the kids.
Medicare covers a lot of those scans anyway, I think Hevs. The only real use a Private health fund has been to me personally, Is so I could dictate the timing of operations to coincide with the World cup.
On my little op last week, HCF covered 70 pct of the costs, (163 bucks per month family cover) the Gap was 440 bucks to the surgeon and 100 bucks to the hospital, and for some reason Medicare paid the anesthetist.
Hope all is going well
Medicare covers a lot of those scans anyway, I think Hevs. The only real use a Private health fund has been to me personally, Is so I could dictate the timing of operations to coincide with the World cup.
On my little op last week, HCF covered 70 pct of the costs, (163 bucks per month family cover) the Gap was 440 bucks to the surgeon and 100 bucks to the hospital, and for some reason Medicare paid the anesthetist.
Hope all is going well
Have you got any medical insurance just for entistry or is it part of you medical insurance? (sorry to be nosey but its just somehing we were considering)
Yes the scans etc are covered on medicare (thank god) but am i right in saying that if we were private we would have had to have paid "the gap" as at the time of diagnosis (CT scan) he was not admitted (still in A and E).
This private health business takes a lot of sifting through and weighing up the pro and cons. But in your case i can see why you were keen
Hope you are on the mend
Jun 9th 2006, 2:56 am
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Re: Medicare & other state benefits
Originally Posted by kevinbloomfield
Cos generally they have bigger mouths and even bigger stomachs?
PMSL
