"Free" health care!
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"Free" health care!
| Thu, 07-22-2004 - 7:15pm |
I wonder how many of you have had to live without health insurance? You say that health care is not a right? NO WONDER! You have always had a place for the bills to go other then your mailbox! How many of you have ever asked what the actual cost of your prescriptions are? Do the math! Do you have any idea what it is like to call around from doctor to doctor trying to find one who would see you WITHOUT insurance? Have you ever stood at your doctor office and humbly asked for samples instead of a prescription because u know that your $360 check wont stretch enough to cover your $280 med bill AND the doctor appt. Don't even mention medicaid! If you make enough money to buy food and scrape by...you do not qualify.
Go ahead and be technical but if you ever run into some bad luck you will see things in an entirely different light!
Go ahead and be technical but if you ever run into some bad luck you will see things in an entirely different light!

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"As many as 195,000 people a year could be dying in U.S. hospitals because of easily prevented errors, a company said on Tuesday in an estimate that doubles previous figures."
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040727/hl_nm/health_mistakes_dc_1
I think there's a lot of dis-information in the US about so-called socialized health care. I think it's a ploy by the big medical insurance companies to make sure americans don't find out the truth: it works, and it is cheaper.
<Sometimes different doctors have different opinions about what one needs, including a transplant. In Canada, it's doctors who make decisions about what is necessary, not the government, and NOT INSURANCE companies>>
That's not what this was about. It was a major feature in Time or Newsweek last year. Whichever province this family lived in had a cut off age for this type of transplant that was determined by availability of organs (I think it was a kidney transfer he needed) and the amount of money the province allowcated to transplants every year. It was not a medical decision and not made by his doctors.
Renee ~~~
Renee ~~~
Good work! You've hit on
Renee ~~~
Again, the point is that americans have much many more 'decisions' made by their insurance companies and many treatments need 'pre-approval' by the insurance company. No such concept here. I'd rather have those decisions made by a government I elect than a company whose objectives are profit.
Personally, I suspect doctors in canada make as many mistakes as american doctors.
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