how is universal healthcare going to effect coumadin monthly prescriptions and blood tests?

It is not at all clear when or if the universal health-care bill will go into effect. Bear in mind that not a single member of either the House or the Senate – by their own admission – had actually read the entire bill prior to voting it into law. There are presently 13 states suing in federal courts arguing that this bill is unconstitutional. There is no question that some portions of the bill are unconstitutional but vast majority of the bill is within the authority and scope of the legislative branch of our government. The courts have the right to strike a line or a paragraph leaving the remainder of the bill intact. This is the expected outcome of these lawsuits but it could quite literally take years to resolve this. Until this is resolved the universal health-care bill will most likely not be allowed to become effective. One of the bill’s founders – a Democrat – had cleverly inserted a line into the bill that each state could opt out of participation. With great embarrassment to the Democratic party and the President this Senator has recently filed suit to allow his state to opt out of the universal health-care bill. Most of those in Congress did not realize that this single line was buried in the bill and now it is very likely that many states will file suit to opt out of participation which is a lot easier than arguing that the bill is unconstitutional. A number of years ago the Commonwealth of Massachusetts had established a universal health-care plan for their ‘state’. There is bipartisan agreement that this bill proved disastrous for the residents of Massachusetts and this is one of the reasons that so many people question the concept of universal health-care. The federal government’s previous experience with federal health-care – Medicare and Medicaid – has proven to be an abject failure. Tomorrow’s tax dollars are being used to pay yesterday’s bills for these plans. Medicare was set up as a trust fund which means that the federal government was not allowed to spend the money but all of the money was drained from this trust fund a great many years ago. Unfortunately you are not really able to sue the federal government when it violates its own rules. Should universal health-care go into effect it is not at all clear how it will work and therefore the answer to your question is really not known at this time. In all probability you will have a monthly fee for participation, a deductible before the health-care program will apply, and you will likely still need to pay a percentage of the cost of physician visits, testing, and hospitalization. It is extremely unlikely that universal health-care will pay for any medical expense ‘fully’. I wish you the very best of health and in all things may God bless.