Re: Reintroducing myself.

On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:37:21 -0500, Marilee J. Layman
<marilee@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:26:19 -0600, Wildepad <noreplies> wrote:

On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 12:57:02 +0000, Jacey Bedford
<lookinsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In message <re2pn3tfo0anamf15r1qgklq80dc4m6vqu@xxxxxxx>, Wildepad
<noreplies@?.?.invalid> writes
Of course, you wouldn't expect tv dinners when you're being charged
$14,000 a day . . .

I hope you have insurance...

It would have been better if I didn't. Hit with almost a quarter of a
million in medical bills, I could have declared bankruptcy with a
clear conscience. Instead, I have to slog through paying 'only' 20%.

You should have had a Medigap insurance.

So in America you have to have insurance, and then you have to have
insurance for the bits that your insurance doesn't cover...

Sigh.

Apparently we live i in the kind of country where 1% of the patients
are able to have MRIs and PET scans on demand, another maybe 5% is
able to afford hospitalization when it is necessary, while the rest go
to emergency rooms for basic medical attention and close their eyes
and hope for the best if the verdict is cancer or something long-term
for which the financial burden outweighs the benefits of survival.
Insurance isn't supposed to be a blackmail industry, nor is it
supposed to "turn a profit" - these are people we're talking about not
stocks and bonds and mortgages. It seems America is so in love with
its capitalism, or alternatively so terrified of ANYTHING for the
people by the people despite the clarion call of its constitution,
that profit trumps humanity and we get into a situation where you need
insurance for your insurance and the basic "social" insurance for the
elderly doesn't cover the stuff that the elderly need - like eye
glasses, hearing aids, dental work and/or dentures, pharmaceuticals
(all of which are "optional extras" in this through-the-looking-glass
world). It just seems idiotic that the only people who can actually
afford a medical insurance premium are the young and predominantly
healthy who don't actually need the benefits.

If we ever leave this planet and go onto another world, they'd better
think about the medical side of it. Can you just imagine it - space
travel insurance that has a whopping great deductible and doesn't
cover accidental exposure if the airlock momentarily malfunctions...

A.
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