Comments on: Government Run Healthcare….A Scary Story

By: opit

opit — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:16:26 +0000

A couple other vet bloggers have mentioned similar sentiments – and deconstructed the wrong’s representations. One note would be that paying for emergency care means that healthcare is inclusive anyway : shouldn’t that mean preventative medicine, which is cheaper ? Another is that billing multiple shyswters all trying to escape liablity and cherrypick their clientel in a situation where competition is impossible has nothing to do with delivering healthcare and everything to do with running a scam.
drinking liberally in new milford – Connecticut Yankee – has been doing heroic duty covering the salient points should you be interested…including representations from Canadians that the talk of dissatisfaction with the present system most emphatically does not transfer to running a ridiculous kludge like yours.

By: Tina

Tina — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:11:37 +0000

I work in healthcare, and (when I didn’t have insurance for awhile) paid $300/month for my medication alone for a chronic condition. I couldn’t afford it, so I started working 60-hour weeks so I could afford it. During that time, I saw on a day-to-day basis patients coming to the emergency room for complaints that are NOT emergencies – runny nose, non-severe headaches, 99 degree fever, finger pain, etc while patients with legitimate complaints had longer wait times as a result. Flat-out emergency room abuse. I noticed the people with insurance and the people who had to pay their own way usually came up there for emergencies.

THAT is the problem. It’s not too much to ask people to pay their own way.

By: Alas, a blog » Blog Archive » Government Run Healthcare….A Scary Story (2)

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:31:22 +0000

[...] Run Healthcare….A Scary Story (2) Posted by karnythia | August 31st, 2009 | Crossposted from The Angry Black Woman So I went to VA1 this morning. Now I had no appointment (my pain only became unmanageable in the [...]

By: Alas, a blog » Blog Archive » Government Run Healthcare….A Scary Story (2b)

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:27:54 +0000

[...] Run Healthcare….A Scary Story (2b) Posted by karnythia | August 31st, 2009 | Crossposted from The Angry Black Woman So I went to VA1 this morning. Now I had no appointment (my pain only became unmanageable in the [...]

By: Shellie (Layers of Thought)

Shellie (Layers of Thought) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:50:27 +0000

Every American soldier who even spends one day in the military deserves, lifetime, adequate, and free health care services for themselves and their families.
My thoughts are with you.

By: Liz

Liz — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:17:18 +0000

Wow… I know what you mean about living a bit too long with the pain before going to the doctor. I’m glad you have good ones. And admire & agree with you that everyone should have such access to fast efficient affordable health care!