RE: Uni Health Care
August 20, 2009 at 11:08 pm
(This post was last modified: August 20, 2009 at 11:16 pm by dry land fish.)
I do not have the need or desire to be liked by anyone. I am me and if someone likes me for me then great and if not then I don't need them anyway. I don't know many Americans that feel any different than I do. Sure there are those that want to be "popular" but usually that stops at high school. That is not the American way. I am not evil. I also understand we need some taxes. I never said we need no taxes. We need roads and we need police officers and other various things that help keep us safe and contribute to our economy. We do not need stupid taxes and this free healthcare is one of those things that will bring about taxes that we don't need. I realize that no one is saying it won't raise taxes and that's the point. No new taxes!!!! If I wanted healthcare I'd go out and buy a plan. I'm a young healthy adult with no preexisting conditions and I can get a Blue Cross plan for relatively cheap. My husbands last employer offered a family plan for about two hundred a month and it wasn't even that great. We paid more into it than we really used.
I can't believe people are complaining about insurance not covering preexisting conditions. Insurance companies are there to make money. They are a business and you can't expect them to allow people to wait until they have a heart attack and need open heart surgery to then buy into a plan. If that were allowed the insurance companies would go broke! Why is it that people have this idea that we can't have people who actually become wealthy in America without a penalty? Isn't that what happened in early European history when we had peasants and kings? Well think of Americans as peasants and the US government as a King. The government says they don't like the fact that someone made five hundred grand this year so they will knock them down to about three or four hundred grand. How is that fair?
It is a fact that in countries where there is free healthcare that the wait time for procedures is longer. That can be life threatening in certain situations. Right now people who can afford it go to the doctor and I have to call two and sometimes three days ahead of time just to see my family doctor. To see a specialist even with a referral I have to wait sometimes months. I had to wait three months to see my dermatologist for the first time. Imagine if everyone could see any doctor at any time. We'd NEVER get to see our doctor. I'm not going to go to a doctor that barely passed medical school simply because America becomes desperate for doctors to satisfy the need. I'm not going to go see a doctor that I can't even understand his or her accent when they speak to me!! I want a good American doctor who went to a good American medical school. Those doctors will be extremely busy and forget about seeing them. What about people who need surgeries for life threatening illnesses? My dad had to wait a week for open heart surgery and he still didn't make it through. What if people have to wait months for it? It's scary and they will die before they can even get into the operating room.
I can't believe people are complaining about insurance not covering preexisting conditions. Insurance companies are there to make money. They are a business and you can't expect them to allow people to wait until they have a heart attack and need open heart surgery to then buy into a plan. If that were allowed the insurance companies would go broke! Why is it that people have this idea that we can't have people who actually become wealthy in America without a penalty? Isn't that what happened in early European history when we had peasants and kings? Well think of Americans as peasants and the US government as a King. The government says they don't like the fact that someone made five hundred grand this year so they will knock them down to about three or four hundred grand. How is that fair?
It is a fact that in countries where there is free healthcare that the wait time for procedures is longer. That can be life threatening in certain situations. Right now people who can afford it go to the doctor and I have to call two and sometimes three days ahead of time just to see my family doctor. To see a specialist even with a referral I have to wait sometimes months. I had to wait three months to see my dermatologist for the first time. Imagine if everyone could see any doctor at any time. We'd NEVER get to see our doctor. I'm not going to go to a doctor that barely passed medical school simply because America becomes desperate for doctors to satisfy the need. I'm not going to go see a doctor that I can't even understand his or her accent when they speak to me!! I want a good American doctor who went to a good American medical school. Those doctors will be extremely busy and forget about seeing them. What about people who need surgeries for life threatening illnesses? My dad had to wait a week for open heart surgery and he still didn't make it through. What if people have to wait months for it? It's scary and they will die before they can even get into the operating room.
