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21-May-97 06:57:01
Sb: Gross waste by Medicare
Fm: Alan D. Fiala 71044,3671
Blane Beckwith writes:
Today, I learned something that could adversely effect vent
users. My vent supplier told me Medicare no longer purchases
ventilators for people, opting instead to rent them by the month.
What possible sense could this make? Anyone who has used a
vent for any length of time knows the monthly rent on a vent is
exorbitant. It is much cheaper, in the long run, to spend the
$10,000 or so to buy a vent outright because for most of us it is
a permanent fixture in our lives. A vent is rarely an item that
is only needed a short time.
instead of renting them makes even more sense these days. Why
can't the idiotic bureaucrats running <?> MediCare see that?
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I respectfully beg to disagree to some extent. When I first started on a
vent, I was renting. The cost was exorbitant by comparison to purchase, but
it included some extra services, mainly toward traveling.. but I digress.
The main advantage was that it let me try several different types of vents
over a long period as my needs changed. If I had been forced to buy the first
type of vent I was on, it would have been a great financial hardship to
change to other types later on, not to mention a medical disservice.
Alan
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