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Originally Posted by marketsmart
this country needs affordable healthcare for low income people and families and thats a fact...
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No, this country needs affordable healthcare and prescription medication for ALL people and families.
It wasn't that long ago that you didn't NEED insurance to go to the doctor or even if you were hospitalized. But we have all been ass raped by the govt. holding hands with the medical industry and the insurance industry.
We pay many times what other countries pay for the same thing. (and no, I'm not referring to third world countries either). Our medications are price gouged unbelievably too. And the govt. has done everything in their power legally to STOP people in the U.S. from buying their prescriptions from other countries and having them shipped to them.
It's a goddamn disgrace is what it is.
And Obama walked right in the White House and the FIRST thing he did was cut a deal with the prescription drug industry and insurance industry to guarantee that they could continue to overcharge Americans for health care.
There is an entire industry of "medical tourism" because you can go to a first class hospital in India for instance...and have surgeries done for 1/10th or less the cost of the same exact thing here in the U.S.
I'm sick of getting bent over and fucked by the govt. and insurance companies.
I've told this story before...I'll tell it again: In 2002 I had no health insurance. Hell, I was always healthy and I never get sick. Then I was in a car accident and broke my neck.
Spent a couple of weeks in ICU and a month in the hospital.
At the end of it...they sent me a bill for over half a million dollars!
So we began "negotiating". Then they turned me over to collections. I had just got home and my neck was in a hard brace and both arms were in full arm casts and I was scrambling to catch up on all my work on the net. Things were looking pretty bad.
And then...after a few weeks...the company that owned the hospital where I was treated called me on the phone.
They told me they had "reviewed my case", and since I did not have insurance they were not going to charge me the "insurance price" for my medical care!
Basically...the cost went from over $500,000 down to $22,000 and change.
I almost cried tears of joy when they told me that.
So I asked: "How can that be?"
And the lady told me that they have pricing for people with insurance and then the REAL cost for people without. I kinda chuckled and said that was a pretty good scam. She told me matter-of-factly that it was how "business is done".
Somebody with some BALLS needs to get into Washington and end this fucking insanity of falsely elevated health care costs. The insurance companies and medical industry and big pharmaceutical companies are fucking us hard.