Medicare…

Part D…. and such…. CONSTITUENT SERVICES Dear Senator and Congressperson…

with all the things my congressional representatives might be worried about… I am dearly sorry to whine about this one little thing.. GRATEFUL and humbled you all were able to pass a budget and work for the public good…but I am pissed off and feel robbed and cheated; bamboozled and know that it is important that I forward my concerns to the highest level. Though I will hold off on the President for right now.

I vote, I have had federal service, I am a retired registered nurse with graduate degrees and a bunch of alphabets after my name….and have seen the system work at its best and also not so much…

After retirement from the Department of Veterans Affairs in October 2018. after almost 20 years of federal service. I selected to take my Federal OPM (Office of Personnel Management ) as well as my eligibility for Medicare that I was due when I reach retirement age as my birthday loomed large from 1954.

Doubly insured, with what they called coordination of care my spouse at that time was still living. He died in February of 2019. We cobbled together benefits form the VA, Medicare and my Blue Cross Blue Shield. It mostly worked with a fair amount of intervention on my part. My spouse had catastrophic illness ( both acute and chronic to the point we had a Nurse Case Manager who backed me up and negotiated as best we could. Frugal, caretaking and care giving; medications, procedures meds (over 20 at times etc, and then a little frontal lobe dementia…