The open political discussion thread. Read the first post!

[Bob Dog]

You will want another countries health care system if you ever get locked out of the healthcare system in this one. It can happen very quickly: a bad injury or a prolonged sickness with reduced income is all it takes. Did you know that 6 months after the onset of a serious illness 60% of famlies no longer have health insurance. They either have been priced out, or have had their insurance cancelled by companies that can find a way to cancel their insurance so as not pay the bill. Close to half the foreclosures in our grand nation are healthcare related. The health insurance system here is nothing but a dirty congame that people have been terrorized into acceptting. The reason people come to this country for health care from other countries is because here, if they are wealthy enough, they can buy their way to the front of the line, leaving millions of Americans without healthcare from health care professionals that their tax dollars helped pay to educate and institutions that their tax dollars and donations help pay to support..

[JBougie]

Originally Posted by Bob Dog

You will want another countries health care system if you ever get locked out of the healthcare system in this one. It can happen very quickly: a bad injury or a prolonged sickness with reduced income is all it takes. Did you know that 6 months after the onset of a serious illness 60% of famlies no longer have health insurance. They either have been priced out, or have had their insurance cancelled by companies that can find a way to cancel their insurance so as not pay the bill. Close to half the foreclosures in our grand nation are healthcare related. The health insurance system here is nothing but a dirty congame that people have been terrorized into acceptting. The reason people come to this country for health care from other countries is because here, if they are wealthy enough, they can buy their way to the front of the line, leaving millions of Americans without healthcare from health care professionals that their tax dollars helped pay to educate and institutions that their tax dollars and donations help pay to support..

I have a crazy thing called a "savings account" for if and when I don't have insurance coverage. I have a high risk plan - I am 25 and don't go to the doctor every month for stupid things like headaches and hang nails so I don't need to pay for extra coverage. My husband and I pay $80 a month and it is perfect for us, it covers the basic annual check up and preventive things but it's really just there for huge medical emergencies such as car accidents and things of that nature. If I do end up having a sinus infection or something out of the ordinary - I PAY FOR THAT. After I reach a deductible (which is only at $3,000 ... so in the medical world that is a very small drop in the bucket) then the insurance kicks in and covers a percentage of the remaining balance.

Honestly, it is the responsibility of NO ONE but you to ensure that YOU are taken care of. It's not like I'm being crazy here - it's really just common sense. So why everyone has this 'but I can't do this alone so the government needs to give it to me' attitude is beyond me. Maybe I missed the day in class when they made sense of it all, but I really doubt it.

As for getting kicked off our insurance - if you go to a country with nationalized health care, you can be left untreated because THEY don't think you are worth the investment. You can be left untreated because THEY think you're not the 'model' of healthy and so you don't deserve treatment; you are completely and totally giving government the right to gamble with your health, and the treatment of. No thanks - they can't even read a Bill for the sake of our countries future, I sure as hell don't want them telling my doctor how to practice medicine.

And, side note: Has anyone read the health care bill being proposed in the US? All 1,000 +/- pages of it? Because if you haven't, you should. I am on page 329, I would probably have more of it but I work full time, volunteer three nights a week with a juvenile diversion program and go to school full time ... so my extra curricular reading time has been drastically cut.