# Sorting through Medicare: what a fucking pain in the motherfucking ass **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 27, 2026, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorting-through-medicare-what-a-fucking-pain-in-the-motherfucking-ass/1030437 "2026-05-27T21:29:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 15
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2026, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorting-through-medicare-what-a-fucking-pain-in-the-motherfucking-ass/1030437/15 "2026-05-28T01:27:34Z")
Let’s not forget the ultimate guide to all things Medicare. No Doper should get past age 64-1/2 (or let their older spouse get past that age) without a thorough reading cover to cover. It’s now 5 years old, plus subsequent addenda, but the big picture remains valid even if certain details of Medicare have been tweaked by one administration or the next. > [@America's Elder Crisis, Medicare Edition](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-elder-crisis-medicare-edition/937146): > > They call, or we call them, an inexhaustible stream of elderly, disabled, and/or poor Americans, all with their stories to tell. Different in the details of course, but in the aggregate a theme develops, a daily oral history of a shattered medical insurance system, not broken because of governmental incompetence but of an insane ideological commitment to “choice” and “competition” and “the market” even in areas where these ideas do not belong. And it has been my experience in the private Medica… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorting-through-medicare-what-a-fucking-pain-in-the-motherfucking-ass/1030437)._