Medicare in a nutshell

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Medicare in a Nutshell

The

phone rings and the lady of the house answers,

'Hello.....Mrs.

Ward, please'.

'Speaking'.

'Mrs.

Ward, this is Doctor at the Medical Testing Laboratory. When your

doctor sent your husband's biopsy to the lab yesterday, a biopsy from

another Mr. Ward arrived as well, and we are now uncertain which one is

your husband's. ly the results are either bad or terrible'.

'What

do you mean?' Mrs. Ward asks nervously.

'Well,

one of the specimens tested positive for Alzheimer's and the other one

tested positive for AIDS. We can't tell which is your husband's'.

'That's

dreadful! Can't you do the test again?' questioned Mrs. Ward.

'Normally

we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time.'

'Well,

what am I supposed to do now?'

'The

people at Medicare recommend that you drop your husband off somewhere

in the middle of town. If he finds his way home, don't sleep with him.'