Originally Posted by Peaches

OK, first of all I don't have an HMO. For some reason people seem to think that an HMO is the only insurance you can get. That's wrong. You can have an HMO, PPO (which I have), major medical, surgical/hospital only (what I used to have), etc.

The people I talked about and MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES are with Medicare/caid. Tom - guess what? Most of the office staff where I'm interning spends their time ON THE PHONE WITH MEDICARE/CAID trying to track down payments. It's great that Section 8 checks are getting out and thank goodness they finally put food stamps on a card since people were selling for them 1/2 their value to buy drugs instead of food, but the medical part of the government still ain't running well.

Then I hear "Yay" for getting rid of health insurance companies. That is exactly what Michael Moore advocates. Thankfully not even Billary is that blindsided by stupidity.

As I said, yes, I think things are broken. I think we let WAY too many Americans and illegals get away with free care. That's why I said a while back that the way I start fixing it is to make a minimum of catastrophic insurance MANDATORY (on both the consumer and the provider side) for everyone in the US. You don't have it? Cash upfront, thankyouverymuch. And if you're too poor to afford $100 a month, then you qualify for Medicaid - now go to the county hospital ;)