[metmom]

I have some medical receipts from back in the 70’s for some medical treatment and the insurance rates and medical costs were proportionately far lower than they are today.

They have risen far faster than the living wage.

Health ins is costing us MORE of our income than it ever used to.

PLEASE, bring back those days.

Let people have a real choice after all.

[Vigilanteman]

True story. I was born in a small town in the Rocky Mountains. Still, it was the largest town for miles around and my Dad was licensed as a veterinarian to practice in three states.

There was a single MD and a handful of nurses to cover the hospital. My Dad and the MD had a gentleman's agreement to handle each other's patients for the rare time they would take vacation or be out of town.

Anyone who needed care (including the animals) got it whether they could afford it or not or had insurance or not. What they couldn't pay in cash, they made arrangments to make payments for the balance. Some of the payment might include produce, mechanical services or whatever it was either doctor could use. My Mom and the MD's wife kept their respective books.

This was the late 1950s . . . not that long ago.