(August 31, 2009 at 10:58 am)binny Wrote: I love that show Bullshit. Anyway if the US has such great health care and is the best in the world, why did I go to doctors for 11 years about my low back pain only to get sent home with muscle relaxers and Vicodin (well I didn't mind the Vicodin so much)? No x-ray, no MRI, nothing to see what the real problem is. 11 years of back pain. Finally one quack Dr. decided to x-ray my back. Well shit my pants. I have a compressed disk in my lower back. Bad enough to show up on an x-ray. All these years these great fuck Dr.s told me it was muscular. They didn't even bother to look further. Now that I have an answer what did they do about it? Well basically nothing. I was sent to physical therapy, which my insurance didn't cover, and that was it. I'm still in pain. I finally decided to see a chiropractor. That has been quit helpful, but again my insurance doesn't cover that. I'm sure I'll be in pain all my life. Maybe surgery would help, who knows, but I'm sure CIGNA would call that a preexisting condition and not cover the surgery. This is truly great private health care in action.
Ha I made a typo. I meant to say that people who can't afford immunizations can get free ones for their kids. I do not think our healthcare system is so bad in terms of the quality of care we get. Maybe you should have went to a different doctor Binny. I've been to some crappy doctors....but I meant that overall we are at the top considering our technology and the treatment available to us. No one can help that some doctors aren't as good as others. It takes a long time to find a doctor that someone likes.
You can't blame insurance companies for not allowing some treatments. They are there to make money and that's that. You know there are people that would wait until they were pregnant or had a heart attack to pick up insurance. That's not how the insurance game works when you are trying to make a profit. Bottom line is they do help even if they don't cover everything.
Where is the money going to come from for this government healthcare? Is it going to be "free" or are people who supposedly decide to participate going to be responsible for a co pay or a premium? How do they expect to raise the funds for this without raising taxes? Some people are talking about all medical care being covered and this includes cancer care. Does anyone realize how expensive some of this care is? Do we really have the money to cover every American plus aliens for every time they stump their toe and go see the doctor? What is going to prevent people from going when they don't need to go or going to the ER when it's a non emergency. Are the tax payers going to be responsible for those visits too? I mean....seriously...have any of you thought about where the money will come from for this?
