My thoughts exactly. I'll embrace this if it means I keep my job. I'll even embrace a lack of health insurance. The idea of "insurance" has become this bastardized monolith of money for the poor.
It used to be in the 1950s that insurance was used to keep the household from going bankrupt. It INSURED against loss. Nowadays people think they have to have insurance to just walk into a doctor's office. They think they'll DIE if they don't have health insurance. Well I can tell you, haven't been unemployed for a long period, doctor offices LOVE if you pay cash and are willing to cut the cost of a visit in half or even more if you pay in cash. In the future, I'd bet that doctors will go back to making housecalls to get paid under the table. It'll create what the government will call a "black market" for healthcare, but that's essentially what they're forcing us to do.
Maybe, I could give my pig to my doctor? That is, if my wife can part with the pig. ;-)
TWO JOBS, 60 hours... and, SHITTY government health care. Hmmnnnn boy, the young uns are just gonna LOVE this!
I agree. A black market for healthcare is going to emerge and I’m willing to ber 0 has anticipated this and is going to try and put the screws down. He knows that many people, particularly Christians, won’t accept the RFID implant seeing it as the mark of the beast so he will issue healthcare cards at first and mobilize his propaganda forces and obamabots to scream until they wear the public down or denigrate them into accepting it.
It may take several years but I think this is one of real hidden agendas behind getting Obamacare implemented in addition to setting up a key ID for every citizen and linking their identification, medical, financial, and possibly location information (if tracking capabilities are added). It’s a tax with a hidden purpose and not really about the public getting healthcare even though thats it’s stated purpose.
Let's just hope you don't need a prescription for some meds, following your visit. Everything going into and out of a pharmacist's office will likely be tracked via the "healthcare grid."
Pretty soon, some IRS agent comes knocking on the doctor's door..."Good day, doctor...we see you've been writing a lot of prescriptions, but your patient visits don't match up. Do you want to explain this discrepancy, or shall we use some rubber gloves and some MIL-SPEC lubricant?"
“The idea of “insurance” has become this bastardized monolith of money for the poor.”
This is the money quote of this post! We’re in our early 70’s now but we remember when our kids were being raised that a visit to the doctor ( the same ones we use today mostly) cost $9.00 out of pocket, no insurance. Insurance was for “unexpected medical stuff” and the doctor billed us and we submitted a claim to the insurance co. It kept the patient in the loop. The problems arose when they decided to decouple the patient from the payment process. Then the insurance companies just allowed the costs to skyrocket without the patient’s knowledge. The “concierge doctor” is coming for those who have the cash to pay for their own medical care ( which is how it should be anyway for anything but out of the ordinary medical expenses). There is something really wrong with a medical care system wherein a hospital visit for 24 hours is a $25,000 venture. Good hotels on the Cote d’Azure deliver more and cost a whole lot less.