Anybody besides me understand that we are all being screwed and ripped off? Because health care insurance prices continue to go up with zero government oversight? Because we are told our health care will be rationed under the governments eye, when in actuality, the rationing under private health care has already been proven deadly for years now. (IE: No, you can't have health care insurance! You're too sick!)
Insert sob story here - there are too many to count: Out here in Cali, , about early 2008 or so, a young woman was very ill, needed a liver transplant. Cigna (my health insurance company by coincidence) actually made it on the news because people were standing with placards and marching and protesting outside their offices because they refused to cover her transplant, which was recommended by her doctors -- they did have a liver available. Cigna Health Insurance (a cold piece of work if ever there was one) said they refused the transplant because she would not have lived that much longer with or without it. She died. She was 17-18 years old at the time. They are probably still in litigation with the family.
That is called rationing health care by a 'death panel' for lack of a better term, not on a government board, but a panel employed by a health care insurer to cut their costs, and decrease their risks.
All the costs of this type of litigation is passed on to the consumer through higher insurance costs. Litigation is by far more expensive than a liver transplant.
Also, anytime someone walks into an emergency room who cannot pay, the costs get passed along to the taxpayer. Public hospitals rarely operate in the black, they are often in debt, and that cost gets passed along to the taxpayer.
When someone says how will we pay for health care, I say, we already are, guys! But no one has given you or me the fineprint to read about what really happens to tax money as related to health care in America.
I do not think what's going through Congress can help us. They've compromised us into the dust bin yet again, and fed corporate pharmaceutical and health care insurance interests yet again.
And all we have is some lousy vote, which isn't much compared to millions of dollars in lobbying money being spent to create roadblocks for everything that might be a good idea. Funny how legislation in America is paid for and sponsored by lobbyists, and much of it isn't in the public interest.
Someone on another post has mentioned the cost. Actually the cost of the debate thus far could have covered a few million people for their lifetime and that of their progeny.
The healthcare and pharmaceutical industries spend probably together around a hundred million dollars a year on lobbying, if not more. How much did they spend defeating Clinton's health care initiative? They could have covered a few more million people, for life.
Everything costs, but honestly, the only health insurance card you should need here is your social security card. It's too bad nothing is that simple.
Insert sob story here - there are too many to count: Out here in Cali, , about early 2008 or so, a young woman was very ill, needed a liver transplant. Cigna (my health insurance company by coincidence) actually made it on the news because people were standing with placards and marching and protesting outside their offices because they refused to cover her transplant, which was recommended by her doctors -- they did have a liver available. Cigna Health Insurance (a cold piece of work if ever there was one) said they refused the transplant because she would not have lived that much longer with or without it. She died. She was 17-18 years old at the time. They are probably still in litigation with the family.
That is called rationing health care by a 'death panel' for lack of a better term, not on a government board, but a panel employed by a health care insurer to cut their costs, and decrease their risks.
All the costs of this type of litigation is passed on to the consumer through higher insurance costs. Litigation is by far more expensive than a liver transplant.
Also, anytime someone walks into an emergency room who cannot pay, the costs get passed along to the taxpayer. Public hospitals rarely operate in the black, they are often in debt, and that cost gets passed along to the taxpayer.
When someone says how will we pay for health care, I say, we already are, guys! But no one has given you or me the fineprint to read about what really happens to tax money as related to health care in America.
I do not think what's going through Congress can help us. They've compromised us into the dust bin yet again, and fed corporate pharmaceutical and health care insurance interests yet again.
And all we have is some lousy vote, which isn't much compared to millions of dollars in lobbying money being spent to create roadblocks for everything that might be a good idea. Funny how legislation in America is paid for and sponsored by lobbyists, and much of it isn't in the public interest.
Someone on another post has mentioned the cost. Actually the cost of the debate thus far could have covered a few million people for their lifetime and that of their progeny.
The healthcare and pharmaceutical industries spend probably together around a hundred million dollars a year on lobbying, if not more. How much did they spend defeating Clinton's health care initiative? They could have covered a few more million people, for life.
Everything costs, but honestly, the only health insurance card you should need here is your social security card. It's too bad nothing is that simple.
Whatever you guys would like to do.
