May 6th, 2010 | 
Author: Just a few things that are NOT covered:
# dental care;
# hearing aids or the examinations for prescribing or fitting hearing aids (except for implants to treat severe hearing loss in some cases);
# long-term care, including personal care, such as help with bathing, toileting and dressing (unless homebound and receiving skilled care) and nursing home care (except in a skilled nursing facility if eligible);
# some preventive care, including most routine physical examinations and tests, immunizations, and routine foot care and eye care;
# vision (eye) care, including eyeglasses (except when following cataract surgery) and examinations for prescribing or fitting eyeglasses.
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Saudi Prince, Now Part Owner of Murdoch’s News Corp., Influences Fox News
Source: ThinkProgress.org, February 10, 2010
Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal now owns a 7 percent stake in Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., the parent company of Fox News, making him the company’s largest shareholder outside of Murdoch’s own family. Alwaleed is best known for going to Ground Zero after the 9/11 World Trade Center attacksand personally handing then-mayor Rudolph Giuliani a check for $10 million to help finance relief efforts. Afterwards, Alwaleed released a statement blaming the attacks not on the Saudi airline hijackers, but on U.S. policies in the middle east. As a result, Giuliani returned the prince’s donation, gaining him praise from Fox News for doing so. Now that Alwaleed has a controlling ownership in News Corp., he is gaining influence over Fox News. In 2005, just months after Alwaleed acquired his first 5.4 percent stake in News Corp., Fox News covered riots in Paris under a banner saying “Muslim riots.” Alwaleed allegedly called Murdoch and had him change the banner to say “Civil riots.” Investigative journalist Joseph Trento also reported that a comment he recently made on a Fox Network morning news show, Fox and Friends, about Saudi Arabian money still financing Al Qaeda, was edited out of the show. Trento also reports that Alwaleed “has personally donated huge amounts of money to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers.” In a rareinterview with Fox News’ Neil Cavuto in January, AlWaleed explained his personal reasons for seeking influence in American politics: the U.S. buys Saudi Arabia’s oil, and the bulk of his country’s gross domestic product (GDP) comes from oil. Fox News reliably broadcasts misinformation on clean energy, and aggressively fights efforts to move America away from being dependent on a fossil fuels.
So are you a republican saying you want more Medicare? Alot of those things aren’t covered with employee insurance.
Medicare covers routine physical exams, tests and immunizations and foot care…
Because republicans would scream about it.
Once we get the basics, then we will expand it.
Everything including dental and long-term nursing is covered in Japan, and runs $140 per month for a family (that earns $100,000 per year).
Maybe if Kryptonite poisoning was covered then you’d support the Public Option??
its not going to be as great as they make it seem this gov is to inept to make this work. they spend and waste money like there is no tomorrow.
Because it’s needs to be funded better but has suffered many cuts, including the Repubs driven one Dec of 09. And with corporations controlling the rates, everything is very costly.
that is where you buy priv insurance. BTW-I am in the health care business and EVERYONE wants the medicare, not the private ins paying them
I haven’t studied Medicare, and neither have you, but I do know the following:
Dental care is available with a small additional premium.
Most preventative care is covered under Medicare Part B.
Vision care is covered, and Medicare pays $100.00 a year for eyesglasses. But the refraction, which is often performed by an optometrist, is not a medical procedure, nor are expenses associated with prescribing and fitting glasses. Medicare only buys you a pair of glasses after you have had cataract surgery — which Medicare does cover. Now, THAT’S vision care!
Medicare is CRAP, but don’t expect Leftists to admit it. Then again, maybe they don’t know the difference between quality and CRAP.