Re: OT: The 11 Year Old Girl... an Obama Plant

On 2009-08-13, ecA* <avlvsveryown@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I dunno. I mean yeah, that looked staged. But I'm thinking back to
when I had that tumor in my leg. Everyone was saying it was a lipoma,
but I knew it was something else based on how it felt and acted.
I was also seriously considering quitting my job at the time. But my
hands were tied by the what if it's cancer consideration. And how many
zillions of dollars could that end up costing. And even though it
turned out to be a type of tumor with a less than 1% chance of being
malignant, and its removal was an out patient procedure. The total
accumulated (covered by company insurance) bill was still over
$10,000.
Something needs to change. I don't know what. But if I was faced with
cancer, I feel I shouldn't also be faced with how this is going to
destroy my family financially if I lose my job, there's a loophole in
the company insurance etc.
I'd be interested in what posters from Canada, GB etc. think about it.

A*

At some point this society decided that certain life sustaining
essentials would be dealt with differently, outside of the strictly
for-profit model. Water for instance. We can't survive more than a few
days without it. And without saying that nobody should pay a water bill,
or that it should be provided for everyone without charge, at some point
we evolved as a society and decided that even the most indigent among
us shouldn't die of thirst because they had no money. That makes us a
better society.

The health insurance business model has no more a right to exist than
any other failed business model, and it is looking more and more each
year that it is at the very least a flawed industry. It's possible in
fact that the industry itself is at least partially responsible for
making health services less affordable, not more affordable.

Stella and I are just getting over a few weeks of the Flu, and yes it
appears to be of the swine variety. I can't help but wonder of somewhere
along the line, between the pig that started it and whoever gave it to
me, could my infection have been avoided if only one person had the
resources to pay for a simple doctor visit. I wonder what total cost in
time and money was between the pig and me. For my part, I lost about two
weeks of effective productivity.

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