Reply #6: Medicare...... [View All]

[gleaner]

which came with disability retirement from a federal job, and my husband's federal employee plan which he kept after his retirement from a federal job.

I don't use the medicare prescription plan that Bush hit us with. It is a joke and very expensive. Other than that the medicare works very well. I use a fee for service plan through them. My husband carries me as a dependent on his insurance which is provided by a private company under contract to the Office of Personnel Management for federal workers. They are a pain in the butt. I get my prescriptions through them and they are secondary to medicare so their crap is endurable, but the prescriptions are still too expensive, they still want to tell me what doctors I can see; all the managed care crap. They call themselves fee for service, but they function as a PPO. That means that if you don't go to one of their network doctors you pay through the butt in co payments. They are my husband's sole insurance. By constantly squabbling with them we have managed to keep his care reasonably good, but if I contrast their operations with the government run medicare they come in a poor second.