I have decided to postpone doing the cataract operation for my brother's other eye. It's just too many people (especially me) having to take off too much work when I myself have a bunch of medical appointments I need to do too.
The hang-up is that his private insurance only lasts until Jan. 1, and then he is only on Medicaid until July 1 when his medicare coverage starts. (That is assuming that Congress doesn't just kill the whole program.) So either we get it done in the next few months or we wait until July.
The ride out to the nursing home is beginning to get to me. I am thinking of getting him on a waiting list for a medicaid bed for a fairly decent nursing home that is much closer to my house who won't take him anyway until he turns 65 (two years from now). My husband questions why I want to move him when he seems so settled in where he is, but my reply is that it's 2 years from now, who knows if they will even take him, and when, and who knows what's going to happen, anyway.
The health care delivery system in this country is completely out of control. Right now, my brother gets blood tests that are billed to his insurance at $300/week. I only have to pay $3 of it. But I am assuming I am going to have to make other arrangements in January. I don't raise a stink about it right now because I don't have to pay. The whole thing is really, really crazy. There are people with their hands held out taking their cut all along the way.
Meanwhile, my brother continues to be in a good mood, which is wonderful.
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