What is Medicare?

[kristopher]

I'm more than a decade away from medicare, so I haven't had cause to become familiar with even the basics.
For example I didn't know what the 4 parts are; do you?


http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/10043.html

[BuyingThyme]

1. No, I don't know.

I don't even pretend to know.

[marybourg]

2. So why don't you just read the pub. you linked to? nt.

[kristopher]

3. Um, I did. Did you?

It was a suggestion to and an easy opportunity for those, like myself, who might need to inform themselves.

Sorry it wasn't clear.

[marybourg]

4. Well then the answer to your question is: Medicare is a single payer

(the federal government being the payer) socialized (the taxpayers supplying the funds) medical insurance plan for the elderly (over 65) and certain disabled people.

[kristopher]

5. The answer is much more complex than that.

People should scan the overview at the link in the OP.

[marybourg]

6. Well ,I tried to keep it simple since you didn't seem to

understand even the exceeding simple language of the publication. But evidently you were pursuing an agenda of your own.

[kristopher]

7. My, but you are dense, aren't you?.