Americans are going to have to take this into their own hands and get the sort of health care they deserve and not the one their bodies and souls have been assigned to by profit making corporations who lie, steal and cheat their way into the heart of the American Government.
Please don't let them use you anymore. Speak up for yourselves and if not for yourselves, for your children and grandchildren. You would not want your son or daughter to suffer or their children, and if we don't change this thing for something that other countries are doing fine with, then we will keep limping along letting people die when we, as a nation, do not have to put up with such a travesty.
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I see people opposing change, saying that they are happy with their insurance coverage and don't need the government to get involved.
ReplyDeleteThese people are apparently unaware that insurance does not protect you from denial of care when the care is more expensive than your insurance company is willing to take on. They apparently are unaware that 50% of bankruptcies in this country are from medical bills, and those people filing bankruptcy did have insurance. Insurance includes deductibles, limits on charges, and "lifetime" maximums.
They may also be unaware that insurance companies impose huge increases on their fees to groups that include an employee or dependent of an employee who is having expensive treatment, as for cancer, which encourages the employer to terminate the employment to get out from under a million dollar premium increase.
So if you're happy with your insurance coverage, good for you. It is great -- if you don't get sick.
Those are the two least publicized dangers in the way health insurance is meted out in the United States - the cancellation of a family's or an individual's coverage when an costly to treat illness or accident arises, and the huge surcharge upon employer-provided group health care plans when one of those covered becomes ill or suffers an accident with one of the above.
ReplyDeleteYou are right Pogo, far too few Americans WITH insurance know that this can and does happen. More people have to speak up, and get through to the THICK staff at faux news. Fox is not doing a good job or a good deed if it doesn't start being "real". They like being the major news source for America. Their staff, with few exceptions, should be forced to deal personally with cancellation of insurance, AND report on it.