# What choices, exactly, must one make for Medicare? If it were a test, how many questions would there be? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 23, 2021, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-choices-exactly-must-one-make-for-medicare-if-it-were-a-test-how-many-questions-would-there-be/944878 "2021-06-23T07:29:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**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:** [June 23, 2021, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-choices-exactly-must-one-make-for-medicare-if-it-were-a-test-how-many-questions-would-there-be/944878/2 "2021-06-23T14:07:54Z")
I suggest you read this and the other threads connected to it: > [@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… You’ll be vastly more educated when you get done. I know I was. The very short version of your “What kind of test?” question looks like this to non-expert me: > You have one non-decision, one trivial decision, and a handful of decisions that each have dozens to hundreds of choices ranging from superb to disastrous with almost zero practical way to find the superb needle in the haystack of disaster & meh. Good luck with that. You also don’t get a do-over on most of them. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-choices-exactly-must-one-make-for-medicare-if-it-were-a-test-how-many-questions-would-there-be/944878)._