I got my Medicare card in the mail last month. I had some chagrin at reaching the age to qualify for Medicare, and I had been procrastinating about applying.
It was five days into the federal government sort-of-shutdown on a Saturday morning that I went onto the Social Security web site to apply for part A, which covers hospitalization. I knew that some units of the Social Security Administration (SSA) were supposed to be working.
This unit clearly was. I quickly filled in my information, submitted the data and promptly got back an e-mail from www.ssa.gov: “We hope you found our online Benefit Application convenient to use and easy to understand.”
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2 comments:
There were many in the beginning that said medicare would never work too.
So what would have been wrong with medicare for all? Money for insurance companies that is why.
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