I am a lawyer, or at least I was before I became mostly a patient. I specialized in administrative law which means navigating the rules and regulations created by the alphabet soup of agencies in Washington, DC. One would think that this background would make digging my way through the ins and outs of being on Medicare a cakewalk. One would be wrong. With the possible exception of the IRS code, there is nothing denser in the law than the regulations surrounding social security, Medicare, medicaid and the affordable care act. Yet we are expected to wade through them with no expert assistance - at least not any unbiased assistance and the stakes could not be higher.
Hence my choice of topic for this blog. I will begin with some of my own troubles dealing with the system. Explain what I figured out and then try to go further than I did and find the real answers that I should have pursued at the time. I hope that followers of this blog will also guide me to new and interesting topics. I'm more than capable of 1. understanding the law, 2 translating it into English, 3 understanding how the law affects the insurers who in this case act as middlemen between government money, some of your money and care. Finally, when needed I will try to link with healthcare professionals to find out how they are affected. For now however this will be from the perspective of a lawyer/patient.
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