Medicare: WalkAide and Botox. Medicare is 48 years is corruption, greed and dubious lying.

Forget Obama, Bush, Clinton, GHWBush (twice, yet), Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. It’s the system.
 
Medicare is 48 years is corruption, greed and dubious lying.  Although, it provides low-cost medical insurance for the broke and moneyed. The yin and yang.  http://whistleblowersagainstfraud.com/medicaid&medicarefraud.html?gclid=CMCco8yqm7gCFc5FMgodaAkAPw


July 30, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed into law Medicare. The Senate approved on July 9, by 68-21. Grumblings for “socialized medicine” with conservative Reps, joined the American Medical Association. President Harry S. Truman in 1953 had plan for universal coverage, but he backed off. Ahead of his time, apparently.  www.politico.com/news/stories/0707/5129.html

I was 52 years old and I had a massive stroke in 1999. I'm 65. I couldn't speak and I couldn't walk; confined to a wheelchair and five hospitals. Nothing clicks. It's a profound, hopelessly, bleak situation and no way out. It's tabula rasa; it's a blank slate.

The muscles atrophied on my right leg, specifically, my knee joint. Sometimes it buckles. I had a hinged support brace for the knee. It works well, coupled with the cane or four-pronged walker, but, sometimes it hurts, especially the lower back.

I have WalkAide.The peroneal foot lifts electronically. It's a cattle-prod, essentially. The physical therapist electrically stimulates the appropriate nerve (peroneal nerve) that signals the ankle joint to dorsiflex.Two electrodes are used from WalkAide.

Medicare doesn’t cover WalkAide. www.walkaide.com

I forked over, probably, $10,000 dollars, from the WalkAide cuff (big bucks!) and the electrodes for 4 years. I walk well; I hobble like a trooper.

Ditto for Botox; Medicare doesn’t cover Botox. www.botoxmedical.com 

Ir's too late.

My claw-arm (for my right hand) is dead in the water. The left hand does everything from cooking, fire-building, and open the mail. Botox relaxes, hypothetically, the muscles in my right arm.

Medicare serves as an umbrella, a filter. It rains down bed pans, walkers, blood tests, and hospital beds, etc. WalkAide and Botox is not covered. I have Keystone Blue, in conjunction with Medicare. Keystone Blue supersedes Medicare. I told you, it's obscure. I’m waiting for Medicaid to kick in. I’m not hopeful. Botox is the answer.

 www.cdc.gov/stroke/facts.html

Stroke kills almost 130,000 Americans each year---that’s 1 in every 19 deaths. Stroke costs the United States an estimated $38.6 billion each year, per the Center for Disease Control.

It’s not brain surgery (pardon the pun).