I guess it's OK that SSA is so magnanimously agreeing to backdate A & B coverage, but what about MAPD, PDP and Medigap? Will carriers be allowed to backdate coverage and pick up claims?
Seems like a huge, never-ending SNAFU
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I guess it's OK that SSA is so magnanimously agreeing to backdate A & B coverage, but what about MAPD, PDP and Medigap? Will carriers be allowed to backdate coverage and pick up claims?
Seems like a huge, never-ending SNAFU
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Preface: I totally see your point.
Up side, SSA is going back to more in-person services. So, that should alleviate some issues. They're also temporary hiring retirees back to handle with overflow.
I mean, despite what people think here.. The COVID pandemic wasn't "just the flu" and disrupted a lot of services. Even here in MI, where deaths were higher, they just started relaxing in office safety protocols.
Relief, in theory, is coming. It just takes time get under control when the system is already overextended.
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I misspoke about backdating. Apologies. My new client who was approved for 7/1/21 and didn't receive the notice until October from Social Security had applied earlier and called for status numerous times before 7/1/21. I was not aware of the issue until well after 7/1/21. The 7/1/21 start date was correct and I hard to say what caused the delay. I am now aware of a couple of carriers who can check on Medicare eligibility which helps if someone applied online pretty close to their birth month and needs to start the policy 1st of that month. Usually if it's a clean online app, 10 days/2 weeks it can be looked up.
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I’ll vouch online enrollment. I just signed myself up on April 1st for a July 1 start date. I enrolled through “my Social Security” account. Pain free. Got the letter the following week, and got my card in the mail last Saturday.
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Yep, I just helped my sister sign up online and she had her card in about 2 weeks.
Though I thing all these that people say about they think its jus a cold or whatever is a gross mischaracterization
Yes there is an odd one here or there that may say that
but most just realize the masks and restriction don't work and even prolong it
Most of all the vax really turned out to be a joke did absolute nothing and has adverse health effects too, I know I have adverse health effects from it and still got covid 2 times after the shot and one time before
Vrs my father who leaves near me since the virus and had covid 2 times and had NO shot he also had less Sevier symptoms the 2nd time him and his wife both withough the shot
I thinks its real and can be serious its just all the rest is BS
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Sorry, none of this is true.
Vaccinations were NEVER supposed to stop you from getting COVID. The flu vaccinations don't STOP you from getting the flu.
It gives you the antibodies to fight the flu more efficiently, thus reducing the severity of symptoms. Furthermore, you get flu vaccines every year.
Same deal.
Vic, and this is not meant as disrespect, anyone that tries to sell you that vaccinations were supposed to stop you from getting COVID is lying to you, either intentionally or because they believe a narrative that is false.
ALL medical treatment, or even illness, has the possibility of severe complications. The likelihood in developing these issues, especially permanent ones, is quite low.
We do know that COVID has a higher risk for severe illness and death than your flu or cold.
Secondly, masks ARE effective in reducing transmission TO OTHER PEOPLE. They aren't nearly as effective in STOPING YOU FROM GETTING COVID. Considering COVID has an asymptomatic gestation period of up to 14 days, YOU can give people COVID without knowing YOU have it.
I'm glad your dad didn't have severe symptoms either time. The second time is literally the effect we would expect. Antibodies reduce likelihood of severity. All the vaccine is meant to do is mimic getting COVID the first time (in a much milder form, like the flu shot) to train your body to fight it efficiently if you get COVID.
The science is the science. If you don't want to get vaccinated, don't. But it's important that you realize what the vaccine is, and is not. I'll repeat.. ANYONE that's sells you vaccines are ineffective are either lying to you or don't take the time to understand the science because it doesn't fit their narrative.
I don't really wear a mask in public anymore (the last time I was on an airplane was a real pain in the ass.) Doesn't mean they don't help reduce transmission, just not nearly as much in stopping transmission TO YOU if you wear it.
We've all spent the last two years arguing about COVID and efficacy of transmission reducing precautions. It makes sense that it's been pretty intense, because the situation was pretty intense for awhile.
We can disagree on the trade-offs, for sure. We can disagree if it's for you or not. Disagreeing on what the mitigating precautions are, and are not, is pretty dangerous for public discourse; because it's framing the debate around a falsehood and people make medical decisions and precautions based on a lie.
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Again hier risk then flue or cold I agree
What I said was it didn't help me get any more then previously getting it judging by the way I had it and others who did not get vaccine and the dozens of article from people hospitalized nearly died and said that God i had the vaccine otherwise I might have died Really?? idd not keep them out of hospital
Seems almost everyone who gets it a second time has lesser symptoms whereas people who had vaccine and got it first time still can end up in the hosp and even die
Remember the famous obituary woman's family she died the obituary read she took all the precautions fully vaxed and blamed unvaxed for killing her if everyone was vaxed she would not have died
The virus still raged at heavily vaxed area as it did elsewhere
There is literally 0 evidence of its effectiveness while there are clearly health concerned especially for those with heart issues like me
I honestly took it when they started making list of people who did not take it
I am sorry I did my heart function has def been effected by it, and immediately
As far as masks Whet It first happened they said the science showed only N95 mask is at all effective then when there was a shortage for medical professionals they wiped that away and changed the science for the agenda as they often do
Now there are plenty of studies that show all the regs did not help even some libs acknowledged that
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Individual cases, maybe, as a community it absolutely did reduce hospitalizations. Again, that premise is a falsehood.
People ALWAYS look for reasons. It doesn't mean that the science supports what they believe. Yes, there's a risk with EVERYTHING. You have to decide, objectively, if the tradeoff works for you and your family, or not.
How many people died that weren't vaccinated and wish they had been when they went on the vent?
You're still missing the point of vaccines. There's no reason for me to keep repeating it.
The second part is just a lie. I don't think you're willfully lying, but you honestly believe a falsehood.. which is sad, because you're making health decision based on a false belief.
Again, transmission to others is not the same as transmission to you. Cloth masks are effective in reduction of transmission to others, not so much TO YOU.
If your goal is to reduce transmissions, not necessarily stopping a specific person from getting COVID, they are effective.
It depends on your definition of help. Of your definition is to STOP transmission, you're right... lockdowns were pointless.
If your argument is to reduce overtaxing a medical system that is already overextended, you are wrong.
It's important to KNOW the actual purpose of things, and not what people THINK are the purpose of things..
I'm really trying not to be dismissive of what you're saying, but it's not based on science or actual infectious disease protocol. That's dangerous, because you're making a MEDICAL stance based off of a POLITICAL narrative.
Its difficult to argue that out when you believe in what's being told over what the people experience
If the science say only N95 work one day and them says any masks works the next and the people show it does not
You say it works because Science
its could be raining out if they say its sunny you say its sunny because science
so we will agree to disagree
Science is always disproving previous science,
science is also dependent on grant money that often comes with political ties to it
Also there is often opposite science that dies not get as much attention because political and money, I have seen a LOT of that in dealing with diet and foods
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