Son's broken arm: Bill Huizenga says people must be responsible for own health care costs
Source: MLive
"At some point or another we have to be responsible or have a part of the responsibility of what is going on," Huizenga said. "Way too often, people pull out their insurance card.
"I don't know the difference or cost between an X-Ray or an MRI or CT Scan. I might make a little different decision if I did know (what) some of those costs were and those costs came back to me.
The father of five offered a personal example of how this shift might play out. He says his youngest son fell and injured his arm. Not sure if it was sprained or broken, he and his wife decided to wait until the next morning to take the 10-year-old to the doctor's office, instead of going to the emergency room that night. The arm was broken.
"We took every precaution but decided to go in the next morning (because of) the cost difference," Huizenga said. "If he had been more seriously injured, we would have taken him in. ... When it (comes to) those type of things, do you keep your child home from school and take him the next morning to the doctor because of a cold or a flu, versus take him into the emergency room? If you don't have a cost difference, you'll make different decisions."
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This is how a Michigan REPUBLICAN Congressman wants YOU to HANDLE YOUR CHILD'S HEALTHCARE. Make them suffer from PAIN overnight to "save a few bucks" instead of "pulling out your insurance card" to attend to your child's medical needs.
Talking about "Adding To The Swamp".
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Playing Dodgeball with a Basketball (so much, the wrong thing to do - yet this one was in an eight-year-olds mind). Either way, the pain was off the chart. Still remember it like yesterday.
Cannot imagine if those responsible for my healthcare as a CHILD would have made the outright Cray-Cray decision to "save a few bucks" and make an 8-year-old-child suffer in pain, overnight instead of "pulling out our insurance card".
How dare he and his poor excuse for a wife play games with their child's healthcare like that.
And the mentality behind it is just sick. Imagine doing this to your own child when you had insurance coverage and the money to pay for any deductible. That poor boy! I hope he grew up healthy and got as far away from his father as possible.
instead she went to urgent care....turns out her cold was turning into full blown pneumonia....
they talked about putting her in the hospital....
needless to say my stock value as a husband took a really big hit....don't think it ever really recovered....
read some places that obama care proved to be more expensive than planned because folks who had put off going to a doctor
due to expense found out they were sicker than they thought...or perhaps as sick as they feared.
I have some questions there idiot , I was going to call you brainiyak, but you just don't quite make it above the level of S*** coming out of you mouth.
Have you ever gone into ****ing cardic arrest, while you are having a heart attack, there dip****?
Do think, I should have waited until the next ****ing day, just to make sure that I was in ****ing pain ass****, so that I could save a ****ing buck? While I was withering on the floor like a dead fish gasping for air and screaming about the pain and wanting it to stop dick****. And then when the medics got there I had died twice once in the house and once on the way to the hospital, and then waking up and not knowing what the hell happened, because dip*** you don't know, your life is a complete blank.
Do you know dip**** what you see when you go into a cardiac arrest, well let me give you a clue, you don't see angels, you don't see a ****ing light at the end of a tunnel you are ****ing dead.
So why don't you come over to my house and will have a discussion about saving a buck!!!!
And then we can discuss why your being paid from the tough of the taxpayers to be a complete ass****
So F* ass**** and the ****ing horse you road in on, you are total embarrassment to what constitutes as compassion in your fascists party, and its not having any ----------------------none, zilch, nada,
And has soon a human beings start calling you what you are, a ****Ing that better off they will be and this country has as whole, your a con
That is just remarkable that this jerk can just come out and say that without any push back, the media reporters should have looked at him and said, what I just said, and see and hear what he has to say , and then said you really don't belong in Congress making decision about people and healthcare, you are dangerous
I think I will forward my comments to this jerk, and Not get any response, because he has none, the spineless chicken ****
To you a big:
And Thank You, Again.
People like this deserve NO PLACE in Government, making decisions for other people and citizens....Period!
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If anything bad happened to him, it would have been "Gawd's will" anyway, right?
There was a cousin of my great-grandmother who had to have her arm amputated near the elbow for a "simple fracture or bad sprain" back in 1904 or so.
No protruding bones and the arm didn't seem bent out of shape so they just put her arm in a sling, according to the letter I read, but maybe there were a couple chips or jagged edge nicked a blood vessel or something, and a few days later she ended up gangrene.
If they hadn't rushed her to a surgeon and had her arm cut off when they noticed her hand and wrist turning blue - and she had lost all feeling, she probably would have died.
Haele
