LIVING WITH MCL

Here's one that will go down in the annals of US health care history, and is one, if you know how much contempt I have for our current system, and despite my [unsuccessful] attempt to refrain from such posts , boggles even my mind. Edie [my wife] becoming eligible for Medicare (due to her disability) signed up for Kaiser Permanente's Senior Advantage Plan. It's a Medicare Advantage plan combining Medicare parts A, B and D, and usually referred to as Part C. She filled out the application at the end of February, and very recently received a letter in the mail indicating her enrollment in the Senior Advantage plan, along with a new card also showing she was enrolled. Great! Everything's fine, or so I thought. It's now time for her to reorder her Lyrica, so the pharmacy calls to let her know there will be an $835 charge [it's a very expensive drug], since she hasn't fulfilled the deductible part of her current plan, which is the plan she was on before she was e...