Re: OT: The financing of Health Care From Opposition

RonSonic aka Ron Bales wrote:
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:08:54 -0400, "Still Just Me -<"
<stillnoEmailyet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:03:57 -0400, RonSonic
<ronsonic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:43:32 GMT, Johnny Twelve-Point presented by JFT
<usenetremove@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
s.
I know my financial interest - I don't want to be bankrupted if I have
very bad luck with my health?
Of course not. There are a lot of things you don't want to have happen. The
question is how much am I obliged to pay to see that they don't.
I don't want to pay for anyone else's care either. But let's note that
we already pay for medicare/medicaid as well as the cost of anyone
uninsured who shows up at the emergency room. Ever seen the cost of an
emergency room visit for strep throat compared to a Dr's office?

That isn't what happens in backward, redneck Hillsborough County, Florida. Maybe
you need to get with your local and elected and demand a sensible system for
indigent care. Nationalizing it will not help. It costs what it costs and
sending money to Washington doesn't make it any more magical or powerful than my
.5% sales tax going to the county.

I would like my own insurance to be reasonably affordable. It's not,
either for me or my employees, at $10k/year. The fact is that the
insurance companies serve no valuable purpose in what is, 95% of the
time, a service plan, not an insurance plan.

If you truly believed that insurance companies are useless then you would just
write the checks to the doctor's yourself and save a bundle. Maybe carry a
catastrophic medical plan with a huge deductible.

Reform is needed.

Yes. Health insurance reform is needed and overdue. This isn't it. If it were,
they would be selling it on its merits, not with a scare campaign and spam
emails.

ATMO, they (this president and congress) are doing to this issue what they've
done since inauguration day which is pile high the wish lists of every legal and
illegal campaign contributor, ally, mouthpiece, cat's paw and tool stuff it into
a bill that nobody has read and then shriek that we're all going to die if they
don't pass it now. [...]

Not true. People who work for a living have no seat at the table.

--
Tom Sherman - 42.435731,-83.985007
Celebrity culture is an opposite of community, informing us
that these few nonsense-heads matter but that the rest of
us do not. - Jay Griffiths
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