I'm on Medicare Part B which I have to be on in order to get the military health insurance, TriCare for life for free. Yesterday, I pre-registered for a doctor's appointment on Monday and was really angry at how intrusive Medicare has become. There were at least 3 pages of questions they wanted answered, including one on guns, which really set me off (no pun intended.) Once I read that, I just changed all my answers to "no" or "NA." I worked for the Feds for over 30 years and I know they never ask questions for the benefit of the person they're asking. Has anyone else seen these question? What do you think?
This seems to be a question that is required from any doctor nowdays. We do the annual medicare physical, and other than listening to your heart and lungs. And taking your blood pressure, most of the procedure is asking questions like this and seeing if you can still draw a clock and remember something for 5 minutes. I don’t like it any more than you do, because it seems intrusive, but the fact is that, whether we know it or not, the government is intruding into everyone’s lives nowdays, and nothing we do is private anymore, including the groceries we buy at the store.
The three words are - penny, table, apple and I think the clock is either 10:20 or 10:40. They never change the questions! The thing I don't like is if someone tells them you fall and are unsteady and can't take care of yourself, when do they force you into a home? I think I'll do some research and see if I can find out what their reasoning is for all the questions.
I do not think that they would force you into a home unless you fell and had to go into the hospital. Several years ago, a friend of mine fell and hurt her arm and was in the hospital, and then into a nursing home for a while afterwards. The nursing home took all of her social security check, and she lost the place where she was staying before the hospital trip; so she had no place to go back home to, and no money to rent another place to live. The food they gave her did not take into consideration her dietary needs for her diabetes, so that was getting worse, too. She was literally TRAPPED in that nursing home run by the state, and desperate to get out.! When she called and told me this, my daughter and i made a trip to the state where she was living and literally stole her out of that nursing home in order to save her. We loaded up as much of the (limited amount) belongings that she had at the nursing home into Robin’s truck, and brought Evelyn back to my house. She stayed with us for the month until she had her SS back again and could rent a little apartment. It was a terrible thing to have happen, and something that any person living alone could face in similar circumstances. She also lost her pets, as they were given away (she thought) when she had to go to the hospital and had no one to care for her little dog.
I have had to fill out a questionnaire at my doctor's office, but I don't believe it's necessarily a medicare requirement. It's mostly about my health issues, including mental health. I always found it annoying when I was in cancer treatment that I was asked if I was depressed. "Oh, no. Everyone with cancer wants to effing PAR-TY through chemo."
I've yet to be asked about gun ownership. I think part of the VA doing it (I bet this is VA-influenced in your case) is under the cover of "preventing suicide" when it's really an abuse of power to punish this class of most loyal Americans, for you are an enemy of the [corrupted] State. Remember, ANTIFA is not the enemy. It's veterans and those who attend Latin Mass.
I'm still LOL'ing about a dad on a gun forum who described a doctor visit when he took his 10-year-old daughter to the doctor. The doctor was a woman around 50 years old. She asked the dad, "Do you have any guns in your house?" He replied, "Do you wear a thong or granny panties?"
This is the question: "Are firearms stored unloaded and securely locked?" Kind of like, "When did you stop beating your wife?" They don't care if my guns are stored unloaded and locked, they just want to know if I have any. Either way, it's none of their business.
Pennsylvania began "honoring" the Veteran, by giving the option for "Veteran" to be added to the license. I declined. I think it would serve to alert police in a traffic stop, and then a different response protocol would kick in that would be alert for firearms.
Unfortunately, today, that "it's none of your business" just doesn't go. We have never/ever been asked about firearms. However, at a 55 Plus apartment complex in Loveland, CO that we went up to the front door to check things out, there was a sign that read, "No Firearms Allowed By Any Resident". As soon as we seen the sign, we left.
What a sad story @Yvonne Smith but the resolution, thanks to you and Robin, was better than it could have been.
I have yet to be asked about firearms even by the VA. Maybe it is because it is assumed every Alaska resident has guns. Most have collections that would make Randy Weaver's "arsenal" (Ruby Ridge) of five firearms pale by comparison.
I have a doctor's appointment on Monday. So far they have sent me 4 "surveys" to fill out. I've been expecting a question about firearms but so far nothing. Maybe they are saving it to ask in person. The question I hated answering the most was about daily exercise.