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Originally Posted by tony404
I love everyone is tired of MM when there is right wing bullshit is on 2000 hours a week. We have paid health insurance my wife and I, she needed to see a specialist this was February she didn't actually see him til August. My Dad has cancer,they told him its fast spreading and one doctor couldnt see him for at least two weeks and the other probably not until Oct. These were specialists he had to see, we are lucky that my mom works in a hospital for a very high ranking doctor who pulled all kinds of favors to get him in quickly. The avg person with insurance and no connections would be waiting.
We used to go to a diner in downtown atlanta, it was owned by indians that were Canadian citizens and any time something medical was needed they went back home for it. Two things that come to mind the father went for a by pass and the son went for knee surgery.
My dad had a heart attack in the uk on business got excellent care.
My insurance goes up every year I keep raising my deductible to lower costs.Eventually I will be paying 1000 a month with a 10,000 deductible it keeps going the way it is and I dont get sick thank god.
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Yep good point.. wait times for specialist are already fairly long here in the US in many cases. Hell last time I made a doctor appointment via my old HMO. I had to wait a month and a half then went for the appointment to find out the HMO had my info screwed up.
So the doc couldn't see me because the HMO wouldn't pay them (even though it was the HMO's fault) So I had to make a new appointment which was another month wait.
I finally see the doctor, the doc prescribes me two medications (I get psoriasis sometimes) went to get the prescriptions fill and the HMO wouldn't cover the more expensive one. Turned me down flat.
Another nice one, for me to buy the medicine myself here in the US for a 60g tube of the ointment is $160.00. In Canada the EXACT same medicane for a 120g tube is $57.00. So if I was in Canada even if I paid for it myself, I could get twice as much for less than half the price.
It's total BS I think we should all just bomb all the insurance company offices Timothy Mcveigh style. Then maybe they would get the picture.