What Does Medicare Pay For?: The Difficulties We Faced
Like many kids, I grew up thinking my parents were the smartest people on the planet. They seemed to know everything. In a world often confusing to a child, they had all the answers and could calm my worries with measured assurance. Now that I am an adult, there have been few problems in my life that I haven’t shared with my mother and father My entire life I have watched as one elderly family member after another relied on my parents for their caregiving support line. And they maintained remarkably good health, even after both became octogenarians in recent years. But with age comes a very valid question with regard to health: what does Medicare pay for?