My mom is diabetic and 79 yrs old.Although is she is checking her blood sugar by herself using ‘One touch Ultra mini’.these days since they discontiued that bigger size one touch meter that was easy to read and see.since she is 79 her vision is not as good as its used to be,so she is not so happy and comfortable with this new one touch ultra mini meter, because of her poor vision and size of the meter,strip are too tiny she is wasting her many of test strips.Now she is very frustrated because later she will not have enough supply of test strips.What we can do about this now?what kind of other better meter she can use which is easy to read and use?will Medicare cover it again?any good detailed answer would be appreciated.Thanks very much.

Everyone wants medicare, medicaid or private insurance. I have fallen in between the cracks. No insurance and 2 years left before medicare and no medicaid available at this time. I’m looking for free or really cheap!

I just lost my insurance when we retired our business. I am not old enough by a few months for Medicare. I bought a vial of insulin for 5.00 today WHAT? I see the Canadian ones are from .00 up but how do I know it is fresh or has not been frozen or heated on the way here?Thanks for any info.
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I understand Medicare paid for diabetic test strips. I have Humana supplement ins. Will they pay for the test strips. I am 67yrs. old. and will need them soon.

My dad has cut his testing down to twice a week to save on his test strips since they are expensive for him. He was testing daily. Perhaps testing twice a week is sufficient. His doctor said it would be fine. His blood sugar stays pretty stable, but in the past, has had problems with it being too high. He has Medicare, AARP supplement insurance, and goes to the VA clinic for appts. Is there a way to get test strips at a reduced rate? I thought his insurance would pay for them or partially at least, but he is buying them himself. I am considering sending him some money to help pay on them, if the doctor says he ever needs to be checking it more often. So how safe is it that he is only checking twice a week? I’m not impressed with his doctor, so I hope he is being honest with my dad on testing twice a week asw being fine. Anyone with diabetes that could advise?

Is anyone else concerned over this intrusion? Medicare isn’t charity — I paid for the coverage, plus a monthly premium. And what’s to stop anyone from just making up test results? Is this just more of the same as the federal regulators ignoring risky banking practices and then punishing only the little banks who had the least to do with the debacle? Who’s in charge here, anyway?

Do you know of any close relative or friends that have been diagnosed with diabetes? If yes, please write how you have seen it affect their lives?

Do you believe that the current medication to treat diabetes is sufficient? If not what do you think should be done to treat/ cure diabetes?

In your opinion, are the current medications to treat diabetes (insulin) difficult or easy to obtain? Please consider financial problems as well as Medicare, and Medicaid fraud and how it has affected diabetics.

Do you believe trying to find the cure for diabetes can justify the use of stem cells?

When I get money off my medical bill, I always wondered how much of medicare do doctors get to keep?, Does it work on Percentages?.

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If you were running the program, how would you save money?

Here are a couple of examples to consider:

1. Eliminate the middleman in claims processing. Have Medicare clams processed directly by HHS employees and not contract this business out to private insurance companies.

2. Stop the practice of paying outrageous rental fees for durable medical equipment like wheelchairs, feeding pumps, specialty to beds used in treating pressure sores, etc. Buy these items outright, and when the patient no longer needs them, transfer them to another patient.

What are your ideas?

Watching Wolf Blitzer.

Medicare paid 00 to rent a wheelchair for a patient? The same wheelchair could be bought outright for 0. Why do we want government involved? Why do we think prices will be going down if we get more government involved?

They can’t even come up with the money for Medicare and are having to make big cuts in coverage. And they want us to trust they won’t cut coverage when the whole nation is covered??? Medicare covers only a few million and they want us to believe that when 300 million are insured they won’t cut services?

How gullible do they think we all are? How gullible are you?

i have medicare part d thru humana one of my prescriptions is only available thru brand name and the co- pay is outrageous.I browsed google and couldn’t find anything….don’t know if I overlooked it or if i am stuck

I work for a church ministry and I have not had social security or medicare withheld yet. Will this affect my taxes? If so, how?

I’m trying to confirm that my paycheck is being cut properly. I looked through the amounts being deducted for Fed tax, Social Security and Medicare, but I needed to know what percentage of each is supposed to be taken from the gross income. Also when the percentages are cut from the gross amount, is each amount taken individually from the whole? I hope this makes sense. Thank you in advance for your help.

My husband is of an age to retire, but doesn’t plan to do so in the next five or so years. We know that he should be eligible for medicare. Is it possible to have both medicare and his health insurance at work where the expense of his medical bills would be less or non existent?