tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882537619389851611.post8972516432533529347..comments2023-11-03T05:09:47.246-07:00Comments on Ramblings ~: Clear!Franhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14198689517878201943noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882537619389851611.post-86477488658867560002009-07-24T23:24:16.845-07:002009-07-24T23:24:16.845-07:00"show me the dead canadians" !!! hmmm, I..."show me the dead canadians" !!! hmmm, I believe their life expectancy is as long or longer than ours. same as many other countries who've been "victims" of evil socialized medical experiments for many years now. something isn't quite adding up. wonder if congress has even noticed that little statistic, or are they too busy adding tons of complicated non-workable amendments in order to guarantee health care reform death. with blue dogs controlling the health care debate, we will all be waking up with fleas! <br /><br />and aaah yes, the annual medical insurance check-up ... it's usually quite painful and guaranteed to make a bigger dent in your budget!D.K. Raedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01451065603615752038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882537619389851611.post-18708517297363567782009-07-24T22:52:28.968-07:002009-07-24T22:52:28.968-07:00Best healthcare in the world- IF you can get to it...Best healthcare in the world- IF you can get to it. <br /><br />I worked for GMAC the finance wing of GM..actually a wholly owned subsidiary, for 4 years. <br />EVERY year they rolled out a new health care plan. Different provider. You know those lengthy books with all the little fine print rules and regs exclusions, exceptions, and the killer *pre existing condition exclusion*. <br /><br />I always thought that should be illegal. <br />You have a known medical need, therefore you will be immediately neglected & rejected. <br /><br />I remember just getting cross-eyed trying to decipher what is covered and what is not. <br /><br />Last year at my workplace they said the cost is only going up a few dollars. <br />A few days later they said ooops!<br />There is an error in the paperwork-- the part that says you pay a higher co pay & then insurance covers 100%....<br />it is only going to cover 80%. <br /><br />Riiiight. The price did not go up????<br /><br />I am now paying 20% of what my medical bills are, AND higher co pays. <br /><br />What kind of smoke & mirrors BS are they trying to sell us?<br /><br />Good comeback re the Canadian. <br />they kept going on about how we should not get prescription meds from Canada.... the meds do not go through the same scrutiny as here in the US. <br />The response was<br />*Show me the dead Canadians*.....<br /><br />Often the same meds by the same mfr are sold for 1/2 the price or less. <br /><br />There is huge profit in the medical field & there is no interconnectedness.<br /><br />People are charged through the nose to become doctors. <br />Insurance contracts force Doctors to charge the max.<br />Sky's the limit for pharmaceuticals. <br /><br />They need to help subsidize Doctors education, have caps of costs, make big pharma BID for a contract to provide the lowest price. <br /><br />Nothing has been done to contain costs, really...<br />and so we have this totally broken situation where <br />so many people are destitute. <br /><br />Congress is so out of touch. Every one of the states they come from has struggling free or reduced cost clinics that are overwhelmed. <br />They run on shoestring budgets, a song & a prayer. <br />They have to turn seriously sick people away. <br /><br />They make do. <br /><br />we don;t even have to reinvent the wheel. <br />Learn from the other countries that have had universal healthcare for decades. <br />Glean from their experts what works & what does not. <br /><br />The conversation should not be about *socialized medicine*, it should be about saving lives.Franhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14198689517878201943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882537619389851611.post-10846060275566446092009-07-24T19:20:53.728-07:002009-07-24T19:20:53.728-07:00but but "we have the best healthcare in the w...but but "we have the best healthcare in the world", right?<br /><br />pbffft ... what good is all this high quality healthcare if no one can afford it. you are right, we are LITERALLY dying for good healthcare. <br /><br />one of the GOP spinmeisters got up in congress the other day to tell about a good canadian friend's death because the "socialized healthcare of canada" thought he was too old to get the procedure he needed AND he didn't have the money to come to america for it. I almost choked! Newsflash! If his "friend" couldn't afford to come to america for some medical procedure, he sure as hell couldn't afford to pay for the procedure itself ... same as many of us who are either uninsured or underinsured or haven't yet been notified by our insurers that whatever procedure we need is not covered.<br /><br />Another GOP whizkid got up & whined that he's sure we wouldn't want to put our healthcare in the hands of some government bureaucrat! but of course he has no problem leaving his healthcare decisions up to some pinhead insurance administrator who doesn't have any kind of medical degree and whose sole goal is to REDUCE or ELIMINATE all claims! nope, he is just fine with inserting that person between him and his doctor.<br /><br />And why-oh-why do these idiots keep bringing up Britain or Canada? No one is talking about that kind of national healthcare (implemented immediately after WW2 before the insurance companies got their hooks into the system)! We are talking about something like what the Swiss or Germans currently have. Well maybe not at first, but eventually. They allow private supplemental insurance but strictly regulate the amounts that can be charged for everything except the premium. The insurance companies there actually COMPETE by having lower prices for better benefits ... imagine that! And medical bankruptcy is unknown in those countries. And oh yeah, they enacted those systems in the 1990's, back when we were futzing around with HMOs. So it can be done!<br /><br />If the citizens of those countries were told today that they'd have to give up their current healthcare system and adopt one like ours, they'd be rioting in the streets!D.K. Raedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01451065603615752038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882537619389851611.post-91592472516517813192009-07-23T19:48:49.386-07:002009-07-23T19:48:49.386-07:00right on nonnie.... our ability to have health car...right on nonnie.... our ability to have health care access is in red alert status. <br />Problem is the insurance & big pharma fills the politicians pockets with lots o' money. <br /><br />Clearly money talks.Franhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14198689517878201943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882537619389851611.post-9861148412759334772009-07-23T19:16:45.098-07:002009-07-23T19:16:45.098-07:00to the assholes in congress (on both sides of the ...to the assholes in congress (on both sides of the aisle), health care is just a big friggin' parlor game. meanwhile, real people are dying. maybe they need to spend their break watching those people die.nonnie9999http://mikk2.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com