On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 21:50:27 -0600, Graham > wrote:

>On 2021-04-25 6:28 p.m., Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2021-04-25 7:54 p.m., US Janet wrote:
>>> On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 15:10:28 -0700 (PDT), "
>>
>>>> One of the maintenance men at work had a stroke many years ago.* "I
>>>> gotta get
>>>> home, I gotta get back to work."* He had/has great insurance but his
>>>> refusal to
>>>> remain in the hospital and then go for physical therapy has left him
>>>> a terrible cripple.
>>>> That's not to say the therapy would have corrected his immediate
>>>> disability but there's
>>>> nothing that can be done for him now.
>>>
>>> He needs to ask his doctor if he can have therapy.* It isn't my
>>> understanding of Medicare that he can't.
>>
>> We had a pretty damned good health care system here, but physiotherapy
>> is not always covered. From what I understand, if a doctor prescribes it
>> and refers you to the hospital it is covered by the government.* I have
>> extended health care and if the doctor prescribes it I am covered by my
>> extended health care to a limit.* If you have to pay for it yourself...
>> well, it's pretty damned expensive.
>>
>What ****es me off is that my extended coverage will pay for quackery
>(chiropracters)
>but not physio unless I go for the top tier plan.

I loathe those chiropracters, they are worse than quackery. Just
watching another friend who has been sucked into the system
deteriorating. I was frank and said to her could she not see that it
is in the chiropracters interests to make sure she keeps going back,
if she was cured, she is a loss!! At least she is thinking about it
now.

Marketplace did an item on them about 3 or 4 years ago, showed a woman
in her 30s, the chiropracter had done one of those 'alignments' on her
and apparently it squeezed the carotid (sp ?) artery so badly that she
instantly had a major stroke and would never walk again.