Impeding changes to our Health Care system

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by lookout123

I have one. Smoothest running office ever. The staff is cheerful and friendly and they certainly don't have a shortage of patients.

There will always be some unless they are forced by law or competition. If too many doctors go that route they won't have enough patients to go around

Originally Posted by sugarpop

My mother's homeowners insurance is dropping her because she made two claims in the past three years. The two claims totalled $2800. And she has been paying them for many, many years. Like, decades. I just don't understand how they can drop her for having to pay out a little money after she has paid them tens of thousands of dollars over the years.

Did the company give you that reason, or are you/she speculating?

[sugarpop]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

There will always be some unless they are forced by law or competition. If too many doctors go that route they won't have enough patients to go around

Did the company give you that reason, or are you/she speculating?

That is the reason they gave in the letter they sent informing her they were dropping her. I called the state insurance person to report it and see if there is anything we can do, but they said insurance companies are allowed to drop you if you file 2 claims within a 3 year period. It seems ridiculous, seeing as how small the claims were.

[JBKlyde]

I'm not saying I completely agree with Obama Care or even that It is the right direction for the country. However I believe that Health Care is what gives America it Leading Edge. For instance when I was a kid my mother bought this pc and it had, a tom clancys flight simulator on it and it had a game where you were the doctor and you did operations. While I was good on the flight simulator the operation game was difficult. Being a kid I just went in there and chopped them up, that may seem crool and creepy however I actually diagnosed myself with an appendicitis and had a REAL surgery done on me. So the point I'm getting at is that I am now a diagnosed bipolar/ skitzo and wouldn't it suck to wake up one day and realize you where in the middle of a surgery or even so the meds I'm on now are state of the art.. simple put WE CANNOT AFFORD TO GET IT WRONG with Health Care. And the new legislation that is being rushed through may be just a quick fix it. Tieing a turrnicite to a head injury will kill the patient and I'm afraid that's whats going on in Washington. The don't realize how the wounded in America are being led like sheep to the slaughter. And that may sound a bit far fetched however did anyone really read the new health care laws. Please feel free to correct me.

[classicman]

Originally Posted by sugarpop

government insurance program where you pay them every month, and they pay out claims - because they are ALL corrupt.

[sugarpop]

Originally Posted by classicman

What? You think the insurance industries aren't corrupt to the bone? A-I-G. nuff said.

[classicman]

Sugah - re-read the part of your post I quoted. It can be taken a completely different way with your use of pronouns.

[Trilby]

The doc who did my radiation (Edward Hughes) and I had a talk about this very dilemma. He takes medicare AND medicaid and said, "People who don't understand this problem, people who are cavalier about it, are people who have never had to DEAL with this problem. I firmly believe that their time will come and either they themselves or a family member will experience a short-fall and THEN they will understand the need for compassionate, reasonable health care costs. But not until then."

I hope no one has to go without care because they cannot afford it. I hope no one's goddamn balloon bursts. I hope everyone just floats along without any snags in their life. Christ on a cracker, look who's lining up to decide who gets care and who doesn't.

pathetic.

why do I come here? It makes me sick. and I can't afford sick.

[xoxoxoBruce]

No, you come for the blue stones. You lurvs blue stones.:p

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by classicman

Wait till doctors start accepting "cash only"

Our dentist currently runs his office this way, as does my son's clinic. They give you all the forms you need to file your own claim and try to get reimbursed, but they simply won't deal with it themselves.

[Clodfobble]

"Was it a Freudian slip?"
"No. Maybe it was a Freudian slip."

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

"Was it a Freudian slip?"
"No. Maybe it was a Freudian slip."

Yep. That is what I said. :p

[classicman]

nah - It was Bush's Freudian slip/fault

[BrianR]

The answer to Medicaid et al is simple, as I see it. Government doctors. Government hospitals. they can have their "free" managed care for those who wan it and private doctors for those who don't.

The doctors can be paid a flat salary , perhaps with some enticement such as tuition reimbursement thrown in to sweeten the deal.

As long as there is a choice for the person in question, I fail to see the problem.

[Griff]

Originally Posted by BrianR

The answer to Medicaid et al is simple, as I see it. Government doctors. Government hospitals. they can have their "free" managed care for those who wan it and private doctors for those who don't.

The doctors can be paid a flat salary , perhaps with some enticement such as tuition reimbursement thrown in to sweeten the deal.

As long as there is a choice for the person in question, I fail to see the problem.

[breaks no politics rule]
Well said Brian, this is a sensible solution. A lot of people would be happy to pay cash or use cheaper insurance for their regular gp visits if they knew there was a parallel system for the bad times. What we can't afford is a system that makes private medicine illegal or continues to subsidize paper pushing over health care. [/to acknowlege common sense over politics]

[TheMercenary]

They would have a hard time staffing the hospitals with people at a competitive rate. The VA and Military hospitals really struggle with this now. They really could not afford to start their own hospital system.