10-07-2016, 08:56 AM
What's bugging me most about this is that only Medicare and only on the outer islands is shooting up in price.
Medicare on Oahu is still $59, and I've seen no reports of regular plan prices exploding.
So it's costing more only for Medicare patients on the outer islands. The ones who use the exact same facilities as any other patients.
So maybe it's the airfare going up, because we have to be flown to Oahu because Kaiser doesn't offer much in the way of service here? You'd have to fly at least once a month to make up for the price difference. Some of us never fly to Oahu at all, that would mean that lots of people are flying multiple times a month.
Or perhaps it's to provide service so far from civilization. But non-medicare prices aren't going up.
The only way this makes sense is if you figure Kaiser wants to get rid of their medicare patients. But only on the outer islands.
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Medicare on Oahu is still $59, and I've seen no reports of regular plan prices exploding.
So it's costing more only for Medicare patients on the outer islands. The ones who use the exact same facilities as any other patients.
So maybe it's the airfare going up, because we have to be flown to Oahu because Kaiser doesn't offer much in the way of service here? You'd have to fly at least once a month to make up for the price difference. Some of us never fly to Oahu at all, that would mean that lots of people are flying multiple times a month.
Or perhaps it's to provide service so far from civilization. But non-medicare prices aren't going up.
The only way this makes sense is if you figure Kaiser wants to get rid of their medicare patients. But only on the outer islands.
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