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Originally posted by seabag
reply to post by Realtruth
Both of you are wrong, they won't do a thing, in fact, people are so used to fighting over scraps and playing the poor-man role that they will adjust and forget that this ever happened.
I’ve decided what I’m going to do. If I lose my insurance coverage because of this, I will continue to get treatment for my family when it’s needed (like normal) and I will simply refuse to pay my medical bills like 75% of the people in this country do now. I'm going to start playing the poor man role!
F-IT! I refuse to pay!
Originally posted by spyder550
All of this pearl clutching over a completely fact free article. I am disappointed in the level of ease with which you folks can be set off.
So far the main things from the healthcare bill has been kids staying longer on there parents policy and the elimination of preexisting conditions. What exactly is wrong with that. BTW I pay over 8000 per year for my company provided benefit. I will pay less than that for Obamacare and I would pay even less if it was medicare for all.
Keep tilting at those windmills y'all.
Originally posted by Starchildren
reply to post by ThreeBears
Sorry you are having it rough. I do understand, as we are going through a situation where I'm too sick to work and my husband is the only one working. The working poor are being punished. A couple of months back they started taking out another $58 in taxes on my husband's check. That $58 was budgeted out as our gas money for every two weeks. Before this happened, my husband's hours was cut to part time. A double whammy. When my husband gets off work at 2:30 pm, he spends the rest of the afternoon job hunting, in the hopes of finding something full time. There is nothing full time around here that is open, and the jobs that do offer full time are full up and no one is hiring. We're facing some serious problems, yet I'm supposed to pay out of pocket for my insurance, or get fined. Oh and I also found out that they can garnish wages for it too.
Does everyone not understand yet how this is going to work? I don't believe so. I wonder when it will hit the masses.
Originally posted by AngryCymraeg
I'm sorry, but anything coming from the insurance companies that fought so hard against Obamacare is guaranteed to be a load of honk.
Originally posted by AngryCymraeg
I'm sorry, but anything coming from the insurance companies that fought so hard against Obamacare is guaranteed to be a load of honk.
Originally posted by EarthCitizen07
A lot of liberal and ex-socialist countries have a national healthcare system along with a state run retirement package. It usually works there so why can't it work in america? They even have subsidised healthcare and people pay a greatly reduced rate for medicine, doctor fees and hospitalisation. You can be the sickest person in the world and they don't drop you either. In america if you smoke too much or drink too much or a drug addict or have chronic health problems no private insurance will handle you, and if they do the rates are unaffordable most of the time.
Talking about unaffordable didn't private insurance companies(HMOs) raise their rates substantially each year? It all starts because of the medical field is way overcompensated, the universities are private or semi-private and rip-off the students who when they graduate have loans of $100k to $300k especially when you consider graduate course fees. It is a damm rip off! In social countries the tax payers as a whole pay for a public education system including college/university and there is no reason to think they are inferior to americas private system.
Originally posted by Starchildren
reply to post by ThreeBears
Sorry you are having it rough. I do understand, as we are going through a situation where I'm too sick to work and my husband is the only one working. The working poor are being punished. A couple of months back they started taking out another $58 in taxes on my husband's check. That $58 was budgeted out as our gas money for every two weeks. Before this happened, my husband's hours was cut to part time. A double whammy. When my husband gets off work at 2:30 pm, he spends the rest of the afternoon job hunting, in the hopes of finding something full time. There is nothing full time around here that is open, and the jobs that do offer full time are full up and no one is hiring. We're facing some serious problems, yet I'm supposed to pay out of pocket for my insurance, or get fined. Oh and I also found out that they can garnish wages for it too.
Does everyone not understand yet how this is going to work? I don't believe so. I wonder when it will hit the masses.
Originally posted by ThreeBears
Originally posted by EarthCitizen07
A lot of liberal and ex-socialist countries have a national healthcare system along with a state run retirement package. It usually works there so why can't it work in america? They even have subsidised healthcare and people pay a greatly reduced rate for medicine, doctor fees and hospitalisation. You can be the sickest person in the world and they don't drop you either. In america if you smoke too much or drink too much or a drug addict or have chronic health problems no private insurance will handle you, and if they do the rates are unaffordable most of the time.
Talking about unaffordable didn't private insurance companies(HMOs) raise their rates substantially each year? It all starts because of the medical field is way overcompensated, the universities are private or semi-private and rip-off the students who when they graduate have loans of $100k to $300k especially when you consider graduate course fees. It is a damm rip off! In social countries the tax payers as a whole pay for a public education system including college/university and there is no reason to think they are inferior to americas private system.
Except, that in UK right now, they cut off some type of assistance care to disabled, and well, one example, a bed ridden brain injured man being told he don't qualify for assistance now, that he can work. OK, YEA BABY, get those Jobs that require DROOLING while SLUMPED OVER, Hey, I Know,
They gonna bring back the Freak Traveling Circus for all these can work people but who can't really, OK
Problems solved! (sarc)
Yea, don't hear a lot of great things from many other gov care countries, so that tells me, something GLOBAL about a lot of this.
But he has medicaid he pays almost nothing and now gets extra money for being disabled.
Originally posted by neo96
reply to post by Realtruth
But he has medicaid he pays almost nothing and now gets extra money for being disabled.
Do people not see the problem with that?
Other people are paying for it because they aren't paying they are getting more out than pay in, the difference is made up by others.
Which is the entire problem with 'government run healthcare' everyone uses it, get's more out of it than, pay in.
The best healthcare is the country next to politicians healthcare, is private insurance.
Originally posted by EarthCitizen07
reply to post by ThreeBears
No system is perfect but do you really prefer private medical system? How can the government regulate HMOs? Conservatives don't allow it. HMOs are traded on wall street and they better show annual profit growth or the stock is unattractive.
"investing" in wall street has become a mainstay job for some folks in america. It is not just for the wealthy as it is in most countries. People expect unusually high returns(almost casino-like) and that causes outsourcing and automation.
It is called greed. I am not necessarily against capitalism though. It does have good points. The SEC can't be bothered with inside traders and breaking up trusts like they did in the old days and that will bring america down.edit on 15/5/13 by EarthCitizen07 because: (no reason given)
Then why the hell do insurance premiums go up substantially each year?
Insurance companies are the biggest racket in the states.
Originally posted by EarthCitizen07
Originally posted by ThreeBears
Originally posted by EarthCitizen07
A lot of liberal and ex-socialist countries have a national healthcare system along with a state run retirement package. It usually works there so why can't it work in america? They even have subsidised healthcare and people pay a greatly reduced rate for medicine, doctor fees and hospitalisation. You can be the sickest person in the world and they don't drop you either. In america if you smoke too much or drink too much or a drug addict or have chronic health problems no private insurance will handle you, and if they do the rates are unaffordable most of the time.
Talking about unaffordable didn't private insurance companies(HMOs) raise their rates substantially each year? It all starts because of the medical field is way overcompensated, the universities are private or semi-private and rip-off the students who when they graduate have loans of $100k to $300k especially when you consider graduate course fees. It is a damm rip off! In social countries the tax payers as a whole pay for a public education system including college/university and there is no reason to think they are inferior to americas private system.
Except, that in UK right now, they cut off some type of assistance care to disabled, and well, one example, a bed ridden brain injured man being told he don't qualify for assistance now, that he can work. OK, YEA BABY, get those Jobs that require DROOLING while SLUMPED OVER, Hey, I Know,
They gonna bring back the Freak Traveling Circus for all these can work people but who can't really, OK
Problems solved! (sarc)
Yea, don't hear a lot of great things from many other gov care countries, so that tells me, something GLOBAL about a lot of this.
They don't have early retirement programs for the severly disabled? In most countries they do. It is called medical disability or state welfare and you qualify for life. No need to suffer in the hospital, they take you home or to a clinic and have constant supervision for those folks.
Maybe doctor kevorkian can help. Sorry for the slight sarcasm, but you quickly playing the *extreme case* was a bit desperate imho!