Medicare for Seniors

 If I remember correctly, my monthly Medicare premium is right around $500 per month or $6,000 annually.  What is interesting here is that my annual Medicare payouts exceeds $300,000...  and includes the following:

1. $150,000 monthly Opdivo infusion (Melanoma)
2. $150,000 Daily Calquence (Non Hodgkins Lymphoma) Immunotherapy pills
3. Monthly Oncology Visits/Blood Work
4. $20,000 Quarterly CT scans
5. Quarterly Dermatology (Full Body Scan - potential Melanoma)
6. Quarterly visits with the Urologist - Cancer conditions present
7. Semi-annual Cardiologist visits (heart disease)

From my perspective, paying $6,000 to avoid paying over $300,000 is a great deal for me and should be for others who are 67 and over and are suffering from disease.

But, what is amazing is the $300,000 for two drugs to fight two cancers:  Lymphoma and Melanoma...  I cannot imagine why medicine costs that much money and wonder how much the pharmaceutical companies a jacking up the costs in order to make a decent ROI for their investors...  this has little to do with the people that are sick and could die without those drugs.

Maybe we should just let old people die when they get sick rather than try and prolong their lives...