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montrose morris,
there are free market solutions to your predicament without resorting to overturning 17% of our economy which is already facing over a trillion dollar budget deficit.
here are some solutions for your predicament;
-enroll in a hospital based (HCC) healthcare plan for uninsured, they charge something like 15 dollars a month and require paperwork, but it is doable. In fact it is exactly what persons “without documentation” do in one of the hospitals in which I work.
-prescriptions are available at 4$ (four dollars) per prescription through Target Pharmacy and Wallmart pharmacy.
-look into local community clinic plans, some are private, there is one advertised in the Rockaway’s queens which has you pay $365 a year with a 10 dollar per visit fee. For full access to Family practitioner, Gyn or other primary care offered at the center. No joke.
-consider a major medical plan for the unlikely event of a major illness or injury.
there is more.
No one is against increasing access to medical care for all, least of all myself.
what we are against is turning over a workable system serving most of the population in order to cover those who can be covered through much more economical means.
look at my suggestions posted earlier for a start;
increase interstate competition and see how fast the premiums will fall.
Biff rode in on a platform of change we can believe in. Here it is in the OT and the same old stuff day in and day out with the usual smattering of cat talk, sex talk, occassional political rants, blah, blah, blah.
I don’t have any. I can’t afford any. I need it. I can’t get it.
I am not lazy, my priorities are not screwed up, I don’t spend my alleged health care monies on cars, clothes, vacations or appliances.
I do not run to the doctor if I sneeze, and have been to the emergency room 4 times in the last 10 years for reasons that could have been taken care of by a personal physician, if I had one. Those visits cost more than several visits to any private doctor. If I hadn’t been in great pain, or fear of something more serious, I wouldn’t have even gone.
I’ve toughed out conditions that I should have gone to a doctor for, and probably will again. Stupid? Probably.
I am the face of millions of people in this country, most of us educated, working, and possibly on the road to an early demise, or longer treatment and recovery than is necessary because we can’t afford medical insurance, and thereby preventative medical treatment. I am sick of the fear of “socialist medicine”, sick of the greed of insurance companies, and the power of the insurance and pharmecutical lobbies. Most of all, I am sick of politicians and pundits who are either too well paid off, or too complacent with the status quo to get off their well insured butts to do anything for me, and those like me. Any government plan that will enable me to get basic care, especially until I can afford to get better care, is a plan for me. Let’s get it in place, the sooner the better.
Legion- that was a great movie. Travolta was brilliant it was the saddest and most hopeful coming of age in NY movie I’ve seen. I know there are many but not with people os real (probably because it was based on the NY Mag article).
“It is a good idea, at heart, but like many things administered by the government, it is rife with waste and abuse” —
of course insurance run by non-gov’t doesn’t have waste and abuse.
montrose morris,
there are free market solutions to your predicament without resorting to overturning 17% of our economy which is already facing over a trillion dollar budget deficit.
here are some solutions for your predicament;
-enroll in a hospital based (HCC) healthcare plan for uninsured, they charge something like 15 dollars a month and require paperwork, but it is doable. In fact it is exactly what persons “without documentation” do in one of the hospitals in which I work.
-prescriptions are available at 4$ (four dollars) per prescription through Target Pharmacy and Wallmart pharmacy.
-look into local community clinic plans, some are private, there is one advertised in the Rockaway’s queens which has you pay $365 a year with a 10 dollar per visit fee. For full access to Family practitioner, Gyn or other primary care offered at the center. No joke.
-consider a major medical plan for the unlikely event of a major illness or injury.
there is more.
No one is against increasing access to medical care for all, least of all myself.
what we are against is turning over a workable system serving most of the population in order to cover those who can be covered through much more economical means.
look at my suggestions posted earlier for a start;
increase interstate competition and see how fast the premiums will fall.
safe
Biff rode in on a platform of change we can believe in. Here it is in the OT and the same old stuff day in and day out with the usual smattering of cat talk, sex talk, occassional political rants, blah, blah, blah.
The honeymoon is over.
My last comment on health care.
I don’t have any. I can’t afford any. I need it. I can’t get it.
I am not lazy, my priorities are not screwed up, I don’t spend my alleged health care monies on cars, clothes, vacations or appliances.
I do not run to the doctor if I sneeze, and have been to the emergency room 4 times in the last 10 years for reasons that could have been taken care of by a personal physician, if I had one. Those visits cost more than several visits to any private doctor. If I hadn’t been in great pain, or fear of something more serious, I wouldn’t have even gone.
I’ve toughed out conditions that I should have gone to a doctor for, and probably will again. Stupid? Probably.
I am the face of millions of people in this country, most of us educated, working, and possibly on the road to an early demise, or longer treatment and recovery than is necessary because we can’t afford medical insurance, and thereby preventative medical treatment. I am sick of the fear of “socialist medicine”, sick of the greed of insurance companies, and the power of the insurance and pharmecutical lobbies. Most of all, I am sick of politicians and pundits who are either too well paid off, or too complacent with the status quo to get off their well insured butts to do anything for me, and those like me. Any government plan that will enable me to get basic care, especially until I can afford to get better care, is a plan for me. Let’s get it in place, the sooner the better.
M4L- we can’t impeach the prez- no one else wants the job. Its a thankless task.
Legion- that was a great movie. Travolta was brilliant it was the saddest and most hopeful coming of age in NY movie I’ve seen. I know there are many but not with people os real (probably because it was based on the NY Mag article).
“It is a good idea, at heart, but like many things administered by the government, it is rife with waste and abuse” —
of course insurance run by non-gov’t doesn’t have waste and abuse.
just use “jokester” vs. jester for Infinitejester
can I NOW get some support to impeach the prez due this “BJ” scandal?