My question of the day.
Why tell us (the little people/peasants) that there is a cure? Why tell us they can "save" us? Why dangle that "golden cure" carrot in front of our face if they indeed have no intentions of saveing YOU?
I'm talking healthcare. Where & how did it get so out of whack? I blame the media/snake oil salesmen. The media tells us of these miraculous cures...
But not for YOU. Only the rich, only the golden. Only the few. I find that knowledge is not necessarily a good thing. Maybe we should have been left in the dark. Maybe they shouldn't be telling the peasants about such things. How dare they flaunt their "I know how to save your child"....but I won't. Doc Welby is rolling in his grave. What happened to the doctors who really wanted to heal someone. What happened?
I blame the game of "LIFE". We should have never been told of "buying insurance".
BI - before insurance...the people felt they needed insurance for that catostrophic occurance that could happen. They never thought they would need it to treat pink eye, or to x-ray an arm. Women knew this to be wrong for many a year. This is why there were mid-wives and home cures.
My family & I have been without health insurance for a couple of years now. We pray more! We now hesitate to be diagnosed until we do get insurance. So we avoid.
I want healthcare reform. But I want it to reform the insurance industry. I want the golden parachutes associated with the insurance industry to stop. I want the pharmacutical companies to stop. I want the crooked doctors who cheat the system to stop. I want people to stop getting rich off of frivalous lawsuits. I want the whole system to collapse. Start over. We really need to reform the greed that is getting between me and my doctor. Until then, I will be diagnosed with an autopsy.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
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Call me.. I am writing a story.. your name will be anonymous... sounds like you got something to tell that others might want to hear.
ReplyDeleteHey Kel, I've got a health care story for ya.
ReplyDeleteMy 18 year old had a massive heart attack after an asthma attack, after insurance paid a lot we still owed $17,000, so we took out a second mortgage. We were handling the 2 mortgages and educational debt,but unfortunatley my daughters brain was "bruised" and she struggled with finishing her college courses. So we decided to take her out of college for a while, give her time to heal and all. So our insurance cancelled her because she wasn't taking enough credit courses. So, all of the sudden her new pulmonologist, and her new meds started to cost $290 for advair, $98 for Singulair, $75 for ProHair and $125 for monthly Dr. and Specialist visits. Now thats only $7056 per year, we could handle that except for the fact that her Sister is on the exact same meds,( and dropped from insurance the day she graduated college) so lets double it. $14112 per year. Oh wait My husband also has Asthma, but his meds are only $1200 per year and his Dr. visits only run about $200 per year as he is still insured and his Asthma is not as severe and more controlled on his meds. So that only $15512 per year. No prob right, oh wait, the 2 mortgages run $12000 per year. So we are out $27512 per year. Ok, fine, my hubs works his nuts off for $19000 per year. Only a deficit of -$8512.
Oh and by the way in the middle of it all I developed a nasty case of Graves Disease, Doc thinks it was brought on by extreme stress, imagine that! So now, add me in, well, not much to add, I received the initial radiation treatment, put it on a credit card, only $1400 after insurance, and the meds and Dr. visits are only apx. $200 per year as I do not go in for my regular visits or for any other medical problems ( like my broken ankle I walked on for 2 years now). Now lets add in City utilities. Apx $2160 per year. We are now at negative $10672, for the year. Needless to say we had to let something go and we chose the house. We lost our home of 20 years. No big deal, just a house. But how is someone expected to overcome these astronomical costs. My hubs works the job from hell, is misused and treated like dirt, everyday, just for the insurance and to break even. My company cannot afford to offer insurance and my daughters work place has the kind of insurance that you pay in for an entire year and then they will decide if they will cover you or not, and they don't cover prescriptions, Dr. visits or emergency room visits. So needless to say they didn't sign up. My poor kids just want desperatley to start their lives, get a little apartment, things that all of the other kids their age get to do but they can't because of their extreme medical costs. I was taught not to whine and play the hand you are dealt, but I'm getting the royal f**k job. Oh well, what can you do, I just pray alot everyday, Asking all Gods on the job to get us through another day. And so far they have granted our request.
We are still here and still a family. So my question to you is how much better would the local and federal economies be if My family and the 10 million more like us could but that 10 grand a year back into non medical segments of the economic equation?
Oh, there is hope for my family in a new non drug therapy for Asthma called Bronchial Thermoplasty, It is still in the hands of the FDA but it looks very promising and has been given the ok in the EU. They are hoping that by early next year it will be available in the US. The process was developed by a Dr. Mario Castro and both trials were nothing but positive. Hopefully people like us won't suffer financially much longer.
ReplyDeleteSee!....this is what I am talking about, everything is whacked out! I think the only answer is to start over, collapse the whole damn thing and start over. Let us start with eliminating the insurance industry, working straight and honest with the caretaker. Truth in cost. Or....just be honest and admit that healthcare is only for a special few.
ReplyDeleteFDA..if your listening (yea right!) hurry up and pass the thermoplasty already!!! Lives depend on it!
They have straight up admitted that they ration care now by keeping poor people home.
ReplyDeleteMy husband works with an elderly man whose wife was sent home to die, after the Doc handed him a bill for over a million dollars and after giving him a sorry nothing more we can do handshake.
ReplyDeleteMy problems are truly nothing compared to that.
My heart lies with those families.
That's the story that needs to be told!
ReplyDeleteIt is almost inhuman.
Don't you know, working people are not human,My husband works in a big wharehouse and he is just a peon, his supervisors have actually said things like "I don't mix with these peasants" Once a year they have executives come out and "work" for a day, they have been overheard saying things like, "I need to wash my hands after talking to these people" or " Why do we have to lower ourselves"
ReplyDeleteTo the rich that already have theirs if you aren't one of "them" you are trash and expected to die early so they don't have to look at you. They truly do not care about the healthcare plight or any other problems that the people who scrape the best of them off their toilets have to endure, and they never will. I don't mind until one of them tries to catagorize themselves as a christian, then I snap. Only a non christian nation would allow this to happen, and thats what we have become.
Soul-less and very cold. WWJD?..piss on the peons, burn their diseased bodies,push them into a pit and call it a day. Inhumane? no, class warfare at its finest. I take solice in the fact that we have them outnumbered,that their excess and greed have taken us this close to another bloody revolution.
I got extra ammo in anticipation.
WWSD?
ReplyDeleteWhat is your plan Spaceroy!? How do we fix this?
greetings
ReplyDeletewe need single payer government back health care, fix medicare and medicaid roll everyone into these two plans everyone pays the same percentage of their income with no caps for the wealthy, if you live in America you are in, everyone is in that is how you make it afforable, you don't have to use it if you can afford private insurance thats is great, but your still in and paying.
Thank you for your post Big Red 1!
ReplyDeleteI agree, there is power in numbers. I would love to know what the doctors really think of the single payer system. I think it could work but a lot of people don't think it will work. I think most of the doubters don't want the illegal immigrants to benefit from it. I see that point. And then there are the pro/con abortion people.....
Single payer is the only way.
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