Faethor guessed:
"AFAIK Obamacare doesn't negate the person buying their own care, if they so choose. Healthcare Insurance companies are making a huge profit still."
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As apparently, I am the only person on this board that actually falls under Medicare and has to live under their rules, let me explain to Faethor, Fluffy, Cecilia, theonestonecutter ,and our resident European expert on American health care, how it affects me.
I was covered under the top rated private company BlueCross/BlueShield until I reached retirement. About 3 months before I retired, I received a letter from BC/BS that informed me that my policy would not be renewed, because I was now eligible for Medicare. There was no option for continued coverage, but they would sell me a supplemental policy to cover what Medicare would not. This had nothing to do with Obamacare at all, just the way insurance works in the US. Of course there are exceptions to these rules... some government workers, and some Unions.
Under the New Obamacare, anytime the government decides that a medical procedure does not meet the "Use of Best Practices in Health and Human Services", as defined by a government panel, Medicare will not have to cover it. If Medicare doesn't have to cover it, then your supplemental insurance policy will not have to cover it either. It's that simple. You will have two other option though, cough up the cash, or take the European way out.
As that doctor pointed out in the video, apparently the age limit for brain surgery will be 70.
Now do you get it?
I know Faethor and Cecilia have already started squirrling away their cash, not sure about theonestonecutter, he might be in one of those unions.