The health care "debate"
This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 at 11:10 am by Matt Davies.
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You're right Matt it will never work here. Just to many
people in the country. That's just citizens. Wait until
the rest of the world gets wind of free medical in the
U.S.- The globe will start to tilt to the west there will
be so many people coming here and the American people won't
be able to absorb the cost.
Maybe Matt could return to England and see how a single
payer health care system works.From all reports that I
have heard and read it stinks – all "hurry up and wait."
Maybe instead of hearing reports and reading about it…Mr McCormick should go to England himself and find out what it's actually like to receive medicine and care without being handed a huge bill or being messed around by a bureaucracy that is trying to profit from your illness.
Last time I was there, my eldest daughter (who is a US national) got a painful ear infection – right before we were supposed to board the plane to return to the States. We took a cab to the nearest hospital, where we explained our situation to a triage nurse who whisked us into a special pediatric examination room. My daughter was examined by two doctors, then given the three week course of antibiotics she needed and we were free to go. I asked where I had to go to settle up, and they chuckled.
Scary stuff, huh?
The health care system in this country is atrocious even for the insured, in many cases. A procedure to remove kidney stones more than 5 years ago became a nightmare for me (it was plenty unpleasant to begin with) thanks to an insurance company that did everything possible not to pay the portion it was responsible for and a hospital that couldn't manage to invoice properly. I paid well over $3000 for my portion of the cost (deductables, copays, etc) in the months after the surgery (had to work out a payment schedule to afford the unexpected cost) and somehow just got a call from the hospital claiming I still owe them more than $6000 because my insurance company denied claims it was responsible for. It's been a miserable, and I was one of those "fortunate" enough to be insured.
It works the same way here Matt. All you have to do is go
into any emergency room and get treated and you are free to
go without payment. Just ask any hispanic legal or illegal
immigrant. Scary stuff alright for U.S. tax payers.
X.Bulldog clearly hasn't tried getting treated in an emergency room in this country in the past—oh, say—40 years.
I nearly bled to death in the ER waiting room back in the late 60s while the bean counters were making sure that my father had insurance that covered bleeding to death.
I'm talking about Illegal aliens getting free treatment JP.
I know u.s. citizens have to pay.