anarch
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Fri Dec-18-09 02:45 PM
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I don't even want goddamn insurance |
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I just want reasonable access to health care. I have insurance now, and I still can't afford to pay for health care much of the time...the deductibles and co-pays are too high. I get part of my paycheck lopped off and sent to a private insurance company every week, and what I've gotten out of it is that I'm slightly less in debt to the hospital (thanks to an incident a year and a half ago) than I would have been without insurance.
OK, maybe more than slightly, but without it I suppose the bill would have been so outrageously high that I might not have even tried to pay it. Or else I'd be on the same slow-bleeding payment plan that I'm on now, which sometimes means cutting back on things like, oh, I don't know--food and stuff.
But I just don't understand...I pay and pay and pay, and then still have to pay some more whenever I need to see a doctor. Granted, I feel lucky to have any access to health care at all--I could live in a "third world" village somewhere and have to walk 20 miles to the nearest clinic, which would almost certainly not be able to provide the care I can get in the U.S. But this is not the "third world"...at least not yet. Why can't we have health care as a public service? I don't even give a rat's ass about the insurance part, as long as I can go see a doctor and not wind up penniless and in debt afterwards...or have to choose between medicine and food...which by the way can be a pretty agonizing decision.
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Cronus Protagonist
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Fri Dec-18-09 02:47 PM
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1. We should adopt the UK's system |
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It wold be much better and easier than the abortion that's being touted now.
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Fri Dec-18-09 03:56 PM
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Fri Dec-18-09 02:48 PM
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2. or have to choose between medicine and food...which by the way can be a pretty agonizing decision. |
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yeah, we chose food. Too bad they couldn't have done something about drug costs...
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Fri Dec-18-09 02:48 PM
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3. We need Health CARE not Health INSURANCE |
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Fri Dec-18-09 02:48 PM
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4. Insurance = health care; not. |
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Some don't seem to see the difference between the two and the difference is substantial.
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Fri Dec-18-09 02:48 PM
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"see a doctor and not wind up penniless and in debt afterwards" |
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That's what we call. Insurance.
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Ron Green
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Fri Dec-18-09 02:48 PM
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5. My story is very similar to yours, and I suspect there are MANY people |
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in essentially the same situation.
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Fri Dec-18-09 02:49 PM
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6. Selling medical "insurance" ought to be a federal crime, |
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punishable by imprisonment without healthcare access.
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Fri Dec-18-09 02:50 PM
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7. K&R: You, me and most other Americans agree |
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There are a few corporate insurance hucksters and politicos that don't.
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