Thank you, Kurt.
Also, mammograms do NOT pick up breast cancer until it is well
established in the body and large enough to be seen.

Mary


--- In lymestrategies@yahoogroups.com, Kurt Milkowski
<kurt.milkowski@...> wrote:
>
> Yes Linda,
>
> Make sure you let em know about those mammograms. Ladies you are
250 times more likely to contract breast cancer after having
mammograms performed! Stay away from quackery.
>
> Kurt
>
> LymeAngl@... wrote:
> In a message dated 9/30/2007 3:09:07 P.M. Mountain
Daylight Time, marypmichel@... writes:
> a regular MD, wrote that he opted out because the fines for even
a
> small clerical error were too risky - $10,000 fine and jail time.
> The others had to hire more office staff just to take care of the
> Medicare paperwork. One doctor was outed from participating
because
> he had "too many" patients with the same diagnosis. Be a
specialist
> in CFS, Lyme, Fibro, mold - you will get a lot of the same
> diagnoses - including MCS. **********Yes, YEs, YES, and it gets
worse Mary.....the latest BS is if there is a medical
> error by the doctor or hospital, then medicare can and does
refuse to may the bill.......
>
> For the last ten plus years I have had nothing covered but for
the
> chiropractor - and that only partially covered as they don't think
> anything but manipulation is needed. This has put a huge dent in
> getting treatments - how do I afford weekly IVs plus acupuntcure
> plus chiro plus doctor visits.........??????
> In my situation as soon as the gov't gets involved I AM
> SCREWED!!!! **********AMEN AMEN AMEN....but as I said before,
people will have to learn on their
> own.....
> I blame no doctor for opting out or not joining - but, if the
> gov't forces me on Medicare then they should force all doctors to
> accept it. I am willing to pay for insurance - but, that is not an
> option. Instead I pay a bundle for Medicare and get nothing back.
I
> pay extra for prescription coverage but, don't use medication.
> And while I am on my soap box: Have you noticed how doctor fees
> have changed since the use of the computer? If it's in the
program,
> then that is what they have to charge. There is no longer any
> connection between the doctor and the charges. More than once I've
> gotten into an arguement with the front desk when I attempted to
ask
> the doctor if the charges were appropriate. I was told to stay
away
> from him as he had nothing to do with the charges!! I now pay a
> bundle to get in the door and then more if the doctor does
> anything!!!! I told one to not pick up a pencil as I wasn't paying
> an extra $5.00!! *********LMAOOOOOOOOOOo this is
funny ......Medicare has created a
> bully and fiasco and it is going to get worse.... My coverage
quit paying for
> my nebulizer albuterol until after the first of the year,
because I used the ceiling
> on what medicare would pay a year....
>
> Without Medicare and the exhorbitant insurance doctor's have to
> ante up I'm sure it would be cheaper and usually affordable to get
> treatments. *********Yes you are right....I could tell you horror
stories that are going on with
> medicare....it is no wonder that doctors try and screw medicare,
as medicare is
> there out front jabbing it to the doctors and the patients blame
the doctors instead
> of medicare....The day will come when one by one the patients
will get the picture....
>
> A few weeks ago I went to the radiologist's for a sonagram of the
> breast - with a prescription. The doctor in charge refused because
> the go'vt keeps track of how many they do and she didn't feel the
> doctor prescribing had a good enough reason. Of course, a
mammogram
> was OK - because that puts radiation in my body and is accepted by
> the elite!!! ********I run like Forrest Gump from
mammograms....YIKESSSSSSSSSSSss first they smash the
> chit out of your tit then radiate it with
radiation....DUH.....wonder what the doctors that are making
> that decision would say if we put their "johnson: under a car
tire and run over it??? ROFL
>
> Medicare is a scam - for the doctors and for the patients. If you
> are being well taken care of, Jim, I am really glad. But, for me
> and many others, I'm out in the cold for coverage.
>
> Mary *********unfortunately Mary you are 100% right, but not all
see this yet....the time
> will come.....The Federation of State Medical Boards is not
involved with licensing and
> making law for treatment of care.....we are headed for DEEP DOO
DOO.....their whole goal
> now is to remove all alternative doctors.....they are silently
creating bills into law in each
> state that will take away our CHOICE....Just wait and
see.....what we need is a
> Healthcare REVOLUTION......however, I spend my time now trying
to teach patients to make
> better healthcare decisions and standing up to the fiasco that
is being created....
>
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