There are NO uninsured people in this country. Those who don’t have PRIVATE insurance can go to any emergency room and receive instant care, courtesy of the tax payer.
We have the best health insurance in the world, and the Big 0 wants to ration it.
What people should know is that according to the census bureau there are over 36 billion people age 65 or over. Obama wants to kill them off with rationing.
I don’t have health insurance because every company I’ve applied to turns me down, as I have a pre-existing health condition: high blood pressure.
And sure, I could go to an emergency room for emergencies, as I did when I crashed my mountain bike, but if I suddenly have chest pains, or I find a lump in my leg, or if I have any other weird symptoms I want checked out to see if I have some horrible disease or not, the ER won’t conduct a series of tests for me and treat me.
True, I go to doctors, but at $175 a visit, and $225 for blood tests, pretty soon the costs mount up.
And if I DID have cancer, heart disease or any other major disease I am comletely screwed...there’s no way I can come up with $250,000 to $500,000 to pay the doctors.
There was a woman in my town, with kids, who got a brain tumor. She couldn’t afford the operation and didn’t have health insurance.
People ran fund raisers, there were stories about her financial needs, but she DIED because she couldn’t raise the $300,000 cash that the hospital/surgery/doctors needed before they would operate on her.
There IS a health insurance crisis in America. I don’t believe that in a country as wealthy as America that women with children should be dying of brain cancer because they don’t have hundreds of thousands of dollars on hand to pay for their brain surgery.
As for myself, I’m in good health, but God help me if I get cancer, have a heart attack or simply get in a major car accident that requires multiple surgeries and extensive rehab. Right now I couldn’t afford it, and I would probably die from my lack of care.
I hope that somehow when health care passes that I can simply do what so many other millions have done: pay a monthly fee to a company and get health insurance, even if it’s just catastrophic.
But please, be aware, the Pollyanna histrionics by so many in the conservative camp belie a real, horrifying fact: millions of middle class Americans CANNOT get health insurance, like myslef, and we are on major illness or accident away from a needless death.
Ed