I learnt from "Penny Health"

keithmullins — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:14:51 +0000

In reply to Taking the Republicans to Task: (4) On Health Care Reform

I learnt from "Penny Health" that Instead, try saying, "There's medically necessary treatment that I'm seeking." Remember, words have power and insurers are all about finding limitations and exclusions if you say the wrong thing.

Yes but, many young people,

John Smith — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:35:19 +0000

In reply to Taking the Republicans to Task: (4) On Health Care Reform

Yes but, many young people, despite having no access to health care, pay into Medicare, Medicaid, some state disability insurance program, and some state health care program. Their employers, if they have one, more often than not pay into these same programs. This law proposes that these same people, the least paid and most routinely unemployed and underemployed Americans, pay even more into a system on the promise that they will finally have access to medical care they have already paid for--but that's only for access. They will then have to pay a la carte for each item, as if they have not already paid for it at least twice. That sound logical or fair to you?

If you are looking for how to make health care work, it's very simple--don't offer access to private care through public dollars--that's the primary way that public health care dollars get siphoned into profits instead of being spent on health care. No, instead expand public health care and provide private dollars (in the form of the money workers and employers currently pay to HMOs). There are hundreds of clinics all over this nation (including, yes, Planned Parenthood clinics) that are, in the greatest health care cost boom in the history of the world, cutting back services and are in danger of closing, because not only do they not receive any private dollars, but they are receiving fewer and fewer public dollars as well.

The fallacy that many people don't pay into the system is ludicrous and asking them to pay more for a system they don't receive any benefit from is scandalous. Nothing is going to change the fact that private doctors and private hospitals will not see them--no matter what law you pass. But you might be able to change the fact that when they do go to public health clinics, they get anything nearing the same medical care.

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I learnt from "Penny Health"

Yes but, many young people,