Something... and Half of Something

Sadly this looks like our future, my daughter works in the health insurance business, as an insurance broker for small business clients. Two things are going on, the uncertainty of insurers being there and the loss of jobs. Both are affecting the employers, the insured and the insurers willingness to take on the risk, most profit margins are stuck at that 5% annual level. These people have to renew contracts every year to mutually keep costs down, that annual enrollment window is getting shorter every time it's due. Between the competing health insurers with our Herr Oberfuhrer and his Nazi's undermining the system. Creating crises, it's driving both employers and insurers out of business. That poor baby and it's family are but one of many.

hey cause i'm sure our medical system never fucks up like cutting off the wrong limb or leaving surgical tools in someone. i wonder how many children and adults suffer because of lack of medical care in this country or how many people die because even with insurance they had a "preexisting condition" and the proposed health care system is different from Britain's but that matters little to people like you. btw dumbass your already paying for free health care it's called the emergency room, when people can't pay their bills the hospital writes it off on their taxes. so would u rather have an ounce of prevention or a pound of cure?

Here's what this "dumbass" wants, you condescending twerp. A nation where government stays the hell out of people's lives, and that includes health care. A nation that observes the ideals set forth in that document we celebrate today. Freedom. Government is antithetical to that concept, which is why the Founders suggested we purge it periodically with a lead enema, something we have sadly neglected to do in the prescribed "every 20 years." So now look what we have. A government that has, by virtue of dictating lending policy, bankrupted this nation, and thrown us into what can now only result in civil strife, at best, or total anarchy. Read Linda's July 4 post above, and have a taste of what gummint has wrought.

Just as gummint's attempt to guarantee a "minimum wage" instead set a defacto maximum wage, its dabbling in health care has created the minimum acceptable fee by providers. There was a time, BTK (before Ted Kennedy), when health care providers competed for business. The family physician could, and would make fee adjustments on an ad hoc basis. People did not go running to the emergency room with a bloody nose, or a hangnail either. Of course, we also didn't have as national policy the gift of free health care to MILLIONS of illegal aliens. And, legal immigrants not of sound health were turned away at Ellis Island, boo-hoo. Today, the vast majority of uninsured are the young who opt out, betting on their youth to buy instead a $40,000 automobile and plasma television. It's called choice, something the liberal celebrates when it comes to killing a fetus, but nowhere else.

The same DNA glitch that determines who in society is inflicted with Liberalism, must also render them incapable of understanding free markets (or national defense, for that matter). Why then would we want to adopt a system developed by just those people; one that's failed, and bankrupted itself every single time? I choose to opt out, by Colt .45 if necessary.

Dave.
You bore me. In all your personalities and email addresses and IP proxies, you bore me.

Well good, I was afraid I'd insulted someone dear to you. I'm haunted by this post Linda. Almost wish I hadn't run across it.

Back when Uncle Lyndon was very busy creating his great society and balancing mundane things. Since I came from a very large family of males he sent myself and some male family members on a badly needed vacation to his tropical paradise. Whilst a guest of his chosen host I was at liberty to visit a hospital or two during the interlude, if Marvin got hurt playing tennis with his balls he went to the local hospital, if I or one of my family found the need for medicating we went to Uncle Lyndon's private physicians. Having visited both wonderful facilities as both a guest and a patient I came away with the distinct feeling that we had the best health care, even if transitory. Triage was vastly different too, ours was focused on that ER the commenter mentioned, then post care, even evacuation to a better equipped and staffed facility, whereas the indigenous hospital care was mostly small 'er' with emphasis on those last two rungs of triage, expectant and terminal, they did have the miracle drug Aspirin and advanced necrotic tissue control with larval treatment.
Some patients waited in state and expectant in hallways and outside for family to find and claim their kin, all had two things in common, a scarcity of doctors and a plethora of needy patients. Plague, Cholera, Dengue Fever, Malaria not the least amongst their ills. It has been said that the difference between the real thing and a movie is the background music. Strike up the band for our commenter.
One facility you had to find by looking for it, the other you found by following the nose.
Since both those systems were funded by our taxpayers, and the freeloader's back then complained about the health care costs, could the problem be that healthcare, like freedom , isn't free?
We still have a slim choice on private sector health care, I certainly don't want 'their' system.

Touché Rodger, Le vrai roi de la France

To all you lovers of nationalized health care:

You get what you pay for (if you're lucky).

When there are no more drug addicts, smokers, career drunks, lousy drivers, thrill seekers and every other moron who spends his/her life doing whatever they can to keep hospitals populated because of SHEER SELF-INFLICTED STUPIDITY, then I'll consider nationalized health care.

Until then...um...NO!

not only chicken pox kill fabio , if was only chicken pox he was alive today

ricardo nunes

so tell me ricardo, are you the doctor who treated poor fabio, or do you just play one on the internet?

no i am the father