I mentioned my recent visit to my primary care physician in my last post. Well, I want you all to know that I am doing my part to help with Obamacare. As you certainly realize, the less use we make of doctors and hospitals, the less money Obamacare will cost us. So during my last visit, my doctor again recommended that I get tested to see what my “bone density” was. His claimed motivation was that I was not only an old person but also a somewhat skinny person. When I inquired as to what could be done if my “bone density” was not normal, he replied that verious medicines were available to help with that, including calcium and vitamin D. Well, I told him that I had started taking Calcium and Vitamin D tablets earlier this year. I did that because of the cracked rib and breastbone that I had suffered in an auto accident, and my subsequent research had shown me that, although taking “all-purpose” vitamins was not really all that great of a good thing, taking Vitamin D was frequently good, and if you were concerned about your bones, calcium would not hurt either !!
One of my other health problems is emphysema. The doctor wanted me to get my “lung capacity” tested as an outpatient at a hospital. I refused. I already know that there is not much that can be done about emphysema except to not smoke and to avoid going outdoors when the air is heavily polluted. So I do not smoke and I do not go outdoors when the air is polluted. In addition, there are a very few drugs that you can take if you have emphysema, and I have been taking them for several years now. Well, the doctor told me that hospitals now have “programs” in which they “teach you” how to breathe better. Now I have read about those programs, and to me they are not much more than an excuse for employing another medical “technician” – one whose sole job will be to “teach” people how to breathe better, more effectively. Bullcrap ! I refused the doctor’s request that I take this test.
See how I am helping out Obamacare? I am helping to keep down the costs incurred by Medicare, costs which are of course eventually paid by you, a taxpayer !