No, no. Not this website. This website. That is Medicare's financing site, and I just spent two hours looking for a simple schedule of approved payments for specific drugs. Do not try this. It is a fruitless exercise.
Fortunately, some folks did not avoid this site (the one you're reading) yesterday. The odometer slipped over 10,000, and guess who it was? Deborah of Thoughts Interrupted! But wait, you say. Weren't you her 10,000th visitor just a few days ago? Can this be true? Is this a put-up job? No, no, a thousand times no; it's all true. Anyone with a flair for math who wants to figure out the odds of that is more than welcome; I'm sure both she and I would be interested in the results.
Posted by Linkmeister at November 24, 2002 07:32 PMDid Deborah win an all-expense-paid-trip to Canada for being your 10k visitor?
Congratz, btw, Links!
Posted by: -e- at November 24, 2002 09:02 PMSince at the moment about all I have are two loonies to rub together, E, that's all she won. :) And thanks!
Posted by: Linkmeister at November 24, 2002 09:51 PMseems all's right in the blogsmos (or is it blogoshpere?)
Posted by: shelley at November 25, 2002 07:34 AMAll together now: Ommmmmmmm....
Posted by: dan at November 25, 2002 04:43 PMI like the Twilight Zone theme, myself. ;)
Posted by: Linkmeister at November 25, 2002 07:43 PMit was rather ..um.. odd. ("odds", heh, get it?!)
geez, Linky, two whole Loonies?! maybe you should fly me to Hawai'i :-P
Posted by: deborah at November 25, 2002 08:08 PMCongratulations, Linky!
Posted by: Lee at November 26, 2002 04:19 AMI went to the Medicare website anyway. It was a mess, and didn't tell me what I wanted to know.
I did realize last year that Medicare would charge me $150 dollars for just one of my anti- rejection drugs. My insurance would charge me just $50 for the same drug.
Better living through Medicare. Yeah, right....
And they are also working on decreasing payments for those patients on home dialysis.
Sometimes I wonder where the interest lies. But I suspect I know already...