I recall my beloved wife who died last summer and who handled our bills and taxes, spending many angry hours on the phone prying loose literally thousands of dollars owed to us by our health insurance companies.
Now that bills and taxes are my responsibility I find rarely a day when I don’t receive a bill from a collector for some hospital or doctor. All such are covered for us by Medicare and GHI for doctors. But again and again I have to challenge — with many minutes on the phone to reach a live body — someone to clear up the mess. My heart goes out to others who simply pay those bills that come into their mailboxes. Many people are stealing from us in health areas in a variety of ingenious ways. No wonder our drug and health insurance cons have the highest profits of any of our industries!
In fact the U.S. has a worse health system than any other democracy and a good number of poor nations as well: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/opinion/05kristof.html
We are being conned by both the Republicans and the health care profit makers. Our doctors know better. If one is well off and lucky one can get decent care here — given some 98,000 malpractice errors each year. But millions of Americans have no health coverage and 70% of our bankruptcies are health cost related.
Don’t be taken in by the Republican lies!
Other nations know full well how dangerous our system is. My family members have studied in several European countries and paid nothing for excellent health care there.
One must see such things first hand to realize how rotten our health care system is.
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“A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope.” (Livy cited by Machiavelli)
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Ed Kent [blind copies]
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI can identify with you on this. My husband of 38 yrs. fought his battle with the BC/BS people almost every day. But I’m almost scared to have it changed. I don’t want people getting free medical care when my husband and I worked and paid thru the nose for everything. Even now my daughters can hardly keep up with the costs of medical care. You can not take care of all people all of the time. It’s a shame but true. I wouldn’t resent those who no fault of their own are in trouble now. But the lazy and crooked are another story.
I originally came from the UK and there seems to be a lot of talk of how bad/ how good the system was.
The National Health Service (NHS) was treatment free at the point of care. So if you had a problem you went to your doctor who would either deal with the problem or refer you on.
I also worked in the NHS and I can say that when it was first introduced it was in debt within the first year. But this was actually welcomed because “if it is in debt then it is working”- a widely known government quote at the time.
Over the years waiting lists have increased and now they have decreased to a manageable level. I believe it is 6 weeks and you should be done (screened, tested, treated) if any hospital surgical case. If the trust doesn’t see you in a government specific time then they have to write to you to explain why.
What does slow down the patients are the ones that want a treatment that have no medical need or they do not have illnesses. Also the practitioners go private for half the week so that increased the waiting lists and patients would go private and see exactly the same clinician!
Before the NHS people were dying because they couldn’t afford medical treatment. I hope those days are gone because I do not want the idea of someone in pain and not seeking treatment because the state will not fund their treatment because of “costs”.
That is not the 21st century that I want my children to remember me for, that is not humanity.
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