I don’t know about anybody else, but I just plain don’t want health care reform. I don’t give a rip about what’s in the bill, I just don’t want it.
Here’s the deal, people... we are catering to a very miniscule minority. The deadbeats who don’t want jobs shouldn’t bitch that they can’t get prescription medication to feed their addictions. I don’t want to be paying for some idiot going to the ER for a bee sting or one of these people who are pathological ER visitors. Our tax dollars already go toward paying for indigent care. Why is this hard to understand?
The morning drive host on my AM station this morning was lamenting that he’s paid over $52,000 and put in scads of his own time for paperwork since he’s self-insured. He’s a contractor for the radio station, so they don’t provide insurance. This guy, a self-described Libertarian, was actually browbeaten to the point that he was asking callers to tell him the downside to not having to file paperwork and spend your own time to get health care.
Every caller just spewed the talking points we all hear. He rebutted every one of them with some level of common sense, but that made me think: just because you’re disenchanted by your experiences with the health care establishment doesn’t mean you should hand it over to the government.
We need lawsuit reform in this country... period. Law schools are turning out lawyers like a union-run auto plant turns out sedans. With a dearth of lawyers looking for money, they’re going to do everything they can to find loopholes and sue based on specialty claims. Hell, someone could probably sue me just for posting this under some obscure law in the US Code, but I don’t worry about that.
Likewise, I think it’s disgraceful that doctors have to worry about being sued for not issuing a test or misdiagnosing. C’mon people... cutting off the wrong leg in surgery is malpractice. Being misdiagnosed with a wart when it’s a pimple doesn’t mean that you go running to sue for all the money.
This country has grown to the point where everyone wants to get rich quick. No one wants to work for anything anymore. No one wants to save. Everyone wants everybody else’s money. Until the American mindset changes, we’re going to be stuck in this rut where doctors are being sued for anything. 8 years of schools and countless years of residencies and internships hardly seem worth it when the doctor needs to have millions of dollars of insurance.
Get government out of healthcare altogether. That’d be a good start.
Is it legal to use tax dollars and White House resources for partisan purposes? I do NOT WANT THE MONEY THIS FAMILY SENDS TO WASHINGTON TO BE USED FOR ANYTHING OTHER THAN DEFENSE IN INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS, MEDICARE, MEDICAID and FEDERAL SALARIES. PERIOD.
I spent in the last month $1,500 for a medical problem and I don’t have “health insurance”.
By my reckoning with my trusty abacuse I am still $6,000 aheaad.
“health insurance” comes with deductibles, DOES NOT cover everything, cover only 50-80 of costs, and you need a permission slip from the insurance company to even get treatment.
I told the doctors in the last month I will Pay Cash just give me a reasonable cost. They gave me a small break and didn’t ask for more.
I know they do not get full payment from the Insurance company but I am willing to pay them now and in cash. I did.
I too do not care what is in the plan proposed. I absolutely just don’t want it and no one is going tell me what to do.