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Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor
Something like 85% of legal citizens have medical insurance......it's the 15% that doesn't. One thing you don't hear as much about......how many of the 85% who have medical insurance can afford to use it? I believe that number to be about 50%.
My medical insurance as a $1500 deductible (family). Many insurance plans have deductibles that are much higher and most families can't afford it (but they have it). My place of employment provides us with a nurse practitioner at no cost. My family is so fortunate to have this blessing.
NOTHING good will come from the government running health care. What needs to be done is to allow insurance companies to fight against each other by allowing them to offer plans outside their current states of operation. If this can be done, I'm sure some will start offering "no pre-existing conditions" and affordable rates. The biggest problem will be your doctor / local doctors taking part in a plan from another state. It's apples & oranges, but it's not much different that Southwestern Bell / AT&T from back in the day.
These things should be tried first before the government screws everything up.
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So true.
As either a military, state, or fed employee for most of my life, I've been fortunate to have some of the best insurance available. And still, going to the doctor is expensive. You still have to pay co-payments on everything from a simple office visit to an extended hospital stay, prescriptions, etc.
Only when I was in the Air Force was everything free, for both me and my family. Ideally that's the way it should be.
Any way, it's Veterans Day. Soldiers died for our way of life. To me that includes the ideal of access to decent health care.