[TheForge] YAK Re: Health Insurance Forging health care policy

Thu Dec 20 11:55:01 2001

In every hospital around here there is a sign in the entrance stating that the hospital can not refuse treatment do to lack of ability to pay, if it is an emergency. The county hospital is obliged to take you no matter what. Now, they may bankrupt you
later trying to get payment, but nobody should lie bleeding in the street, or cough up a lung waiting for treatment.
Part of the problem is that the number of things which we now attempt to treat has grown exponentially in our lifetimes. Even in the fifties folks just gave up the ghost if they got too sick. Now the "treatment" extends to levels unthought of then.

The system is still broken for other reasons. They used to ask have you seen a doctor in the last ten years. Now it is have you seen one EVER. Answer? "No I am fifty one and have never seen a doctor. Does that make me a good risk?".

Twelve years ago my son had trouble breathing. The emergency room doc wrote asthmatic attack. No problem or treatment since then. The CYA insurance companies still do not want to cover him for "any disease or condition of the respiratory or digestive
or reproductive systems" Essentially all he has is insurance against broken legs, provided he didn't stumble while coughing.

Smithing content is in the new header,

Mike Graf

[email protected] wrote:

> I thought things were bad here in Canada, but you write "I am not surprised one out of four americans is without health insurance." Is that really true? What happens if they get sick? This sounds like something out of a Dickens story and "Tiny Tim"
>
> Daryl
>
> Roger Olsen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >Hello Edgar,
> >
> >When you say you pay $$600 to a State Health Plan are you saying per
> >month?    Here in Washington State I pay about that every other month for
> >a plan that has a $150 deductible.  I would like to change to a higher
> >deductible and a bit lower premium but right now the company I am with
> >will not allow any changes in their programs.
> >
> >An individual shopping for health insurance in our country is really
> >screwed,  I am not surprised one out of four americans is without health
> >insurance.  I continue to be amazed our government will not step up to the
> >plate and come up with some sort of system that works for all our citizens
> >to have access to affordable health care one way or another.  I realize it
> >is a complicated issue but to me it is more important than going to the
> >moon or for that matter even finding bin Laden.
> >
> >just venting,
> >
> >Roger Olsen
> >____________________________
> >
> >Edgar R Guillot wrote:
> >
> >> I have diabetes with heart trouble.  I am 60 single and pay almost $600
> >> to a Louisiana State Health Plan. My deductible is $5000.
> >>
> >> On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 21:40:29 -0500 "wmullett" <[email protected]>
> >> writes:
> >> > Jim,
> >> >
> >> > I'm on cobra and my insurance just went from $460 to nearly $600.
> >> > Just for
> >> > my wife and I.  Trouble is getting on another plan may be a problem
> >> > now that
> >> > I am diabetic.
> >> >
> >> > Walt
> >>
> >>
> >> Ed Guillot
> >> Kenner,LA
> >> Member: LAMA,GCBA,
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