You know what, my statement is very true. We as a country and system do not refuse health care to anyone.
I am proof, I had no job, no insurance and I was sick. I worked with the doctors and hospital and survived. Yes I was in debt but nothing is for free.
What ruined it has been a few things;
Lazy people - expecting something for nothing and when something doesn't go their way, they sue and cry about it
Medicare/Medicaid - having taken the responsibility away from the patient
Unions - forcing a situation of even more lack of responsibility and the attitude "I deserve"
The solution is so simple, make the people be involved with the payment of their own health care. If they are too busy or too lazy, then that's just too FB.
You don't have to comment because it's very true.
OUR POOR are NOT POOR.
Our poor are rich by the standards of what poor is.
These are the same standards use to judge us and how we take care of our poor. OK so our poor isn't driving new cars all the time but health care access is still a lot higher than those in other countries where there is a doctor for every 10,000 people but no real supplies.
In our country, wealth and lack of it has more to do with the person and their attitude than it ever has to do or did the class, their skin color or any other factor that is prevalent in other countries.
We never thought in terms of class until the Unions started to talk about it and how they convinced people that we are just like Europe - them against us. We never had to deal with closed shops and backwards thinking. Our economy flourished without the back breaking need to make people equal and people had opportunities to make something of themselves - all has changed because of these stupid attitudes of "I deserve because I am".
When you travel and go to places like;
Botswana,
Somalia
Kenya
Liberia
Ghana
Tanzania
Ethiopia
Sudan
then you can talk about how badly our poor have it here.
Once you see real poverty by the world's standards and what it is really like, then you will understand that we have no poor in this country.
How many of these countries have fresh water access?
Do you know how much time it takes to get water in some of these villages?
Sometimes a group of people will travel to a guarded water well that is polluted and fill their two gallon buckets up to take back to the their village, and it takes them one full day to do this.
Here our poor get free money to buy soda, chips and dip so they can relax from their hard day of shopping by sitting in front of their LCD TV and talking on their government paid cell phone.
How many countries provide poor people with cell phones, free food and free individual housing and don't ask them to put back into the system while they are taking advantage of it?
The important question that no one seems to want to answer is this when they seem to talk about Our Poor is this;
How can a person from any of those countries I listed come here and become a millionaire within 10 years but our people can't seem to find a way to feed their families or hold down a job?
Yep we sure do but we also have the BEST care in the world. I would like to see some who keep saying that we need to change go live in England where the cost does really matter and controlled by ways that affect the person. When you hit 65, you lose some of your benefits, like life saving operations or treatments. Or if you live in Norway or Denmark where euthanasia takes place with the families permission but not the patients, it is great to rid the older ones who are costing the most amount of money.
I'm all for ending Medicare and Medicaid for those who want to change my health care. I'm all for limiting Social Security on those over 90, it isn't your money anyways but the governments.
The spin off to the cost of health care is improvements in the system to reduce the costs - one thing many seem to forget even after they get that bill in the mail. Most of the nice things that other countries now enjoy to prolong the citizens lives happened here first and we paid for them. Many of the drugs that we depend on were discovered here.
Many of us see through that BS line - that's the true fact!
The cost of my premium has more to do with the mandates and the lawsuits than it ever has to do with under or unfunded payments to the providers by the patients - in other words it doesn't affect what I pay.
However what does affect what I pay is the bargaining by large groups of lazy people who think health care is a right. It is the idea that they can go into the emergency room on Sunday morning to get fixed to return to work because they were so drunk From Friday till Sunday morning.
It matters that the states prevent us from going across state lines or how they force insurance companies to operate within their boundaries because of monies collected, kind of puts a stop to savings.
Mandates, like tattoo removal or what ever is also killing us - someone has to pay for it and if it is an elective thing that doesn't prolong or improve the life of the person, it should not be done.
