I don’t understand why people are so against Health care reform. I really can’t get my brain around that at all. Take me for example. I have worked most of my adult life, even after I had my first major heart attack when I was 35 and had a double bypass, I still went back to work after I healed. I still worked after 11 more heart attacks until the 12th one disabled me. Through out my entire life I always had health insurance and never understood what everyone was crying about. Until it actually hit me personally.
When we moved down here to FL for my husbands new job and his school, his employer only offered employee only health benefits. Myself and the kids were not covered. No big deal says Dr. Corny, we will just buy it separate. I wasn’t overly concerned. That is, until I started making phone calls and found that NOBODY would cover me. NOBODY because of my pre existing heart condition. I couldn’t buy and pay for it myself. I was totally uninsurable for one whole year. Then Dr. Cornys boss finally got family coverage for him. Dig this, 600 a month with a 48 hundred dollar deductible. The kids have their own private policy that we pay for thru a different company, at 200 a month. With my insurance we have to pay the first 48 hundred dollars before they will cover anything, and pay them 600 dollars a month I guess that is a membership fee? Like Sam’s club? So, I need some very expensive tests done, and we have to save money and keep putting in our Health Savings Account. Can’t get anything done until we have the money in there. I think I get one Dr Visit a year paid for, after that, the deductible kicks in and I have to pay for all Dr visits. I have to see my Doctor every 2 months for med refills, he wont give me more than that. Everyone wants a piece of the pie don’t they. He also wants blood tests done each time I go in. My Dr visits run around 300 a visit. Which I think is absolute highway robbery.
So, please for the love of God, those of you that think we don’t need Health Care reform, tell me why. Help me understand why the big corporations can do this to us and we follow along like sheep, saying ohhh I’m bent over give it to me harder it feels so good. We want to you keep taking all of our money and giving us less and less in coverage. Please help me understand. Or is it, as I have been told, that Americans just don’t want the Black Democrat changing health care? God I hope not.
Do some states have better health coverage then others? Is Florida the only state that sucks this hard? What’s health insurance in NC like or Texas, or any of the other states? Cause if there is a difference between the states, then maybe I need to freaking move, before I die literally waiting to save enough money to cover my deductibles. Crying freaking shame if you ask me. The system is soo very broken. WHY all the hatred and fighting about getting fixed?
February 6th, 2010 at 3:17 am
For most reasonably thinking people, the issue isn’t that they’re against fixing the health care system. The real issue is that both bills thus far don’t address the reasons why costs continue to climb.
Here are a few examples (I’m sure there are more)that will take step to fix the system without bankrupting the U.S. into oblivion:
1. Tort reform. There are states that have tort reform as laws which have shown to reduce costs.
2. Health care markup. There are cases where a hospital will buy a drug for say $1 a pill, then apply a 500% markup and charge the insurance companies $500 for that single pill they paid only $1 for.
3. Large multi-national corporation buying every single hospital in a given city and then fixing the prices. there’s no competition to for prices lower.
4. Not being able to buy insurance accross state lines. In many states, the insurance companies hold a monopoly.
5. I bought a nebulizer for my wife for $50 brand new. If my insurance paid for it, it would have cost $450. If I had bought the device from the company, it would have cost $143. I found a medical whole sale company that sells the same device for $50. Why the price difference, I have no idea.
People do want the health care system fixed, but they don’t want a reform that doesn’t actually fix the actual problems. What we have can be fixed without bankrupting our country and truly protect every single person if done right.
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February 6th, 2010 at 8:32 am
I think health insurance reform is vital to the well being of the country and shame on the republicans in Congress who’ve been blocking it every way they can think of. Here in Massachusetts we have near-universal coverage (over 93% of residents covered), if I remember right President Obama has mentioned Massachusetts as a possible model for a national universal coverage program. I have to take my son to the doctor every couple of months for his ADHD meds and we don’t even have a copay.
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February 6th, 2010 at 10:56 am
I live in Kentucky and have only had Medical Insurance 2 times in my adult life, 1st back in the 90s. It cost me $200 a month and no one, I literally mean no one in my area accepted it.
The second time it was through my work and when the owner was arrested for selling drugs to a minor I tried to switch it over to a private plan and couldn’t. They kept rejecting my app for little things like misreading my 5s for 2s until the 6 months lapsed and I’d have to start the policy for scratch.
I’ve never seen a company work so hard not to take my money.
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February 6th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
I want it fixed. I don’t want anyone else to have to die like my Dad did – all because he didn’t have “the right KIND” of insurance. I think if things are passed the way they are right now, not only would America be bankrupt, but we would end up with health care provided like the VA. We don’t want that – believe me.
I feel ya on the premiums – mine are a little cheaper though – $100 bucks a week – plus co-pay – plus deductibles, plus the shit they don’t cover at all – like birth control – plus 20 percent of what they do cover, yeah – they are all raping us….
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February 6th, 2010 at 4:37 pm
MMD, great comment thank you!
Ruth and Project, thank you for commenting, I agree, it needs Fixed.
Hippy, That is exactly what I want..I want it FIXED. I don’t want anythng for free, but I don’t want to be in the poor house over heath care. OR worse, die because I can’t get it. They are raping us.
My question was…why are people against health care reform…why do they want things to stay the way it is. I just answered a comment that was misplaced in the post under this one that was meant to be placed here. I don’t think we should have complete free health care. I think we need reform, and I think we need change.
February 6th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
I’m not against healthcare reform, I’m just against this healthcare reform.
Why? It does nothing to “fix” the system. I used to work for an attorney who represented doctors in lawsuits. I’ve seen numerous cases of people who didn’t do what the doctors said but then when something went wrong they would bring a lawsuit against the doctor and try to get money because they “could.” This is what needs to be fixed. There are times when lawsuits need to be brought but not when the patient doesn’t do what the doctor says and then blames him and sues him.
I’m also against it because of the fines that it would impose upon people who do not have insurance. If I can’t afford to buy insurance, then how can I afford to pay the fine.
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February 7th, 2010 at 10:06 am
The current plan is being modeled on plans that are not successful. They don’t care they just want to push through a plan without doing the research. I am not against health care reform but the plan that is being proposed will create many more problems than it will solutions and the taxpayers will pay for it and so will business owners so who wins? I agree that our health care needs reform but the current plan is not the answer.
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February 7th, 2010 at 3:40 pm
This is too political for me.
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February 15th, 2010 at 3:52 am
hey bug,
1) if healthcare reform doesn’t pass, dems have no one to blame but themselves. (i’m a liberal, you know that)
2) it’s not nearly “fixed” but we have to start somewhere. there will never be a perfect bill presented, but if something isn’t done NOW, it will be at least another 15 years until something IS.
3) unless we get some sort of healthcare reform, u.s. citizens won’t see that the “death panels” bs is exactly that, BS.
i disagree about it bankrupting us, as it is. do we all realize that w/o healthcare reform, we ARE paying for the uninsured? (i’m not referring to you) what i mean is, for example, my son who has worked for the past 9 years (he’s 27) doesn’t have insurance & hasn’t been to a dr. in 8 years. but if he has a catastrophic accident or something else where he needs hospitalization, who is going to pay for that? someone is paying the bill when the uninsured go to the e.r., etc. i believe that is why our hospitals are going bankrupt.
if mass. and other states can do it, why can’t we all? i believe it should be an american right. don’t get how people can think americans, especially working americans, shouldn’t get healthcare. i find that very inhumane.
/soapbox
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February 15th, 2010 at 4:20 am
Jane, I hear you loud and clear! Here is something that just happened to us this past week. In December we took Mini Bug to the ER. It was on a Saturday night, actually Sun morning, around 1 am. She had a cold, and woke up not being able to breath. She would cough so hard she would vomit and couldn’t catch her breath. She is only 4 and the swine flu was going around. I am the last person to rush to the emergency room, it only happens when I get scared and that doesn’t happen often. I was scared. Hubby picked her up and took her. The ER looked at her for less then a minute, said she was fine and walked out. We took her to her ped on Monday. She had severe bronchitis, two ear infections and a sore throat. Now, it’s Feb. We got a 500 dollar bill from the Hospital that we promptly paid. Insurance did not cover one drop of the ER visit. Then 2 days later, we got an 800 dollar bill from the ER physician. 800 freaking dollars for less than a minute service. That is robbery. My cardiologist doesn’t charge that much. I sent the bill back telling them that I dispute those charges. Waiting to see what happens. It’s highway robbery and we are getting it up the wahzoo! Now, imagine this…say I didn’t take her to the ER and she was so sick that she God Forbid died. Then I would have been charged and arrested for not taking care of her. We can’t win. Take your child pay out of your azz sideways, don’t take her, run the risk of something very very seriously wrong. It all makes me sick. When a child gets dealthy ill on the weekend, a parent has no other choice BUT the emergency room. You call the Dr’s office you get a recording, if this is an emergency, call 911. A child not being able to breath is an emergency if you ask me.