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An Unsuspecting American With No Medicare Coverage—Me!
Gordon Schiff
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Most Americans take it for granted that if they work hard their whole lives, Medicare will be there to cover their health care costs after they turn sixty-five. But that’s not always true. I have a patient who discovered too late that she wasn’t covered by Medicare and through her experience found out that I was in the same boat.
The story begins with a patient I’ll call Ms. Williams, a retired telephone operator at Chicago’s Cook County Hospital, where I have practiced medicine since 1976. I had helped her in the past with her diabetes but had not taken . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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