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Given the fact that medical professionals save lives, it’s health insurance itself that allows doctors to make themselves affordable to save those lives. The prior statement can be explained with the following story – a guy on the verge of death needs a 50,000 dollar surgery to restore him to good health. The man uses his insurance policy to cut it to ten thousand out of pocket cost, so he can afford the surgery with the retirement fund he’d been saving for 20 years. Had the man been uninsured, he would not be able to afford the surgery and due to such monetary setbacks had fallen ill with no necessary surgery and died. It had been only because the man was insured with a few medicare advantage plans that he was able to live on. There is no question that the doctor is the one who saved the man’s life, however the man was put into a situation which allowed the doctor to do this only because he had health insurance.

Picture this: a wealthy, prestigious country without any record of war. Given the fact that the king runs the nation well, the country is at a handicap because they can’t produce enough energy using their power plants. To their fortune, the neighboring country across the river has an excess in power plants that can be utilized to power a country 5 times their size. If a bridge were to be built, the two countries would be able to link to each other and the generous power supply could be fairly distributed between your two.

This metaphor is a great explanation of exactly how Medigap insurance works. The truly amazing foundation upon which the supply of the refined reimbursement system for medical expenses is Medicare – also it doesn’t produce all the coverage necessary independently to pay for all of the expenses. In correlation with the metaphor, Medigap represents the bridge which connects the two countries to supply all the power… it connects Medicare coverage with 100% full dental coverage plans to fill in the gaps and holes of debt uncovered by Medicare insurance on its own.