SirNitram wrote:Stravo wrote:The health care situation is reaching crisis proportions. I spent several years without any health coverage whatsoever and I lived in dread of what would happen if I got really sick. Thankfully now my child and I have health coverage through my job...but considering the economy what happens if I lose it?
HOWEVER I do NOT agree with a government controlled system. There need to be some sort of shakeup, regulation of health care costs perhaps, but when has it ever been a good idea to add governmental beaurcracy to ANYTHING let alone my health.
I must ask, why? This really makes no sense to me, the whole attitude that the government picking up the slack in a 'safety net' health care system is somehow evil. Assuming someone finally just shoots the fucking lawyers to drop healthcare costs, it shouldn't cost much more than current taxes relating to Medicare/Medicaid. Please do explain, Stravo, I'm curious.
I agree with the safety net but not the actual system itself. My father is currently going through retirement and getting his health care options lined up. He has a serious heart condition and so it is VERY important to him that he have the right coverage particualrly prescription drugs (BIG issue for the retirees and should be for the rest of us as well, costs are going way up. I used to pay $5 for a generic drug, $10 for a brand name. NOW I pay $10 for generic, $15 for brand name, doubled in 1 year! Watch this election, it is going to come up) The amount of paper work and hassles he's gone through just to get his medicaid and medicare benefits is ludicrous, he needs a lawyer to read some of the fine print to fully understand what the consequences of his choices are.
Anyone who sees how government runs things (DMV, Unemplyment benefits, etc) on average has a horrible experience. I know friends who didn't get their unemplyment checks for nearly a month due to beauracrtic snafus. I guess Nitram what many of us are deathly afraid of is the bullshit we will have to put up with if the government ran the system. I shudder what to think will happen to the prescriptions the government will need to keep track of and consequences when it inevitably loses a prescription history as NY state lost my license one year.
Civil Servants do not have the incentive that private companies do to do a good and thorough job. Been to the Post Office lately? Think of intead of a fragile handle with care package it's your daughter you're bringing in to be looked at. NYC and state has some of the WORST civil servants in this nation and I would NOT want that translated into my health care system.
Oh and for the conspiracy nuts out there, the governemtn will have your medical records, any thoughts?
No thank you. The HMO's aren't working too well, but I'll take them over Shaniqua and her three inch long nails chewing gum and gabbing in the phone as a line begins to form at her window.
Tell you what, what city do you live in. i bet i can find you a job, it may be shitty, but it will do for a while you whiney litte cunt.
