9. HEALTH CARE: Obama Care? Obama care is
government controlled health care. Do you want the government to decide if you
DESERVE health care?
I know this is a big concern of so many of our citizens. BUT.
First of all, I’m asking you, how many people have lost
Middle Class jobs the last 12 years?
How many of those employees had Medical Insurance that is
now cancelled?
How many new employees of that company, now in the Orient,
have Medical Insurance? NONE
You’ve been screwed.
The Medical insurance
plans that we have, are a joke, it’s all about costs/profit, no matter what
plan you have.
Do you know, the World Health Organization in cooperation
with the US Government can “force you to be inoculated”, any refusal shall mean
arrest, failure to cooperate in a suspected world health scare.
Do you know what they
are pumping in to you? Would you even care?
Will Illegal Aliens be
eligible for Free Health Care, read
Want to read the 1990
page HR3200 bill, good luck. It’s an
Adobe Reader file.
Latest news from my Congressman: Our
government, those who we have elected stated:
Health Care dollars will have to go to
protect those “who have not yet lived a Full
life”.
Those of you who have already lived a Full life
will have to bow out to those with the most prospect of a future life.
So don’t live too much
longer, we can’t waste money on your health needs.
THEN:
Did the Unions get you Free Health Care? NO,
originally employers offered “Group Plan” insurance not Free Health Care.
Employees paid a minimal fee, “as a Group” to spread the cost among many
ratepayers. Many employee health plans still require the employee to pay a
certain amount, and as an enhancer, employers paid 50% of your insurance to
work for the company. In 1957 I had to pay $8/week for my insurance. Of course
with inflation that increased, to where I had 100% employer paid Health Care
before I retired. This was like most insurance policies, to spread the cost of
coverage over many contributors to the expense of medical care.
NOW:
#1 Let’s return
those jobs to America; then you will
have job provided plan insurance again.
Fact 1. Now I have discovered Michael Moore’s film Sicko online, watch his revelations about Medical care in other nations with government paid medical plans.
I “may” have to revise my
opinion IF I can figure out how we can afford this, “but don’t bet on
it”.
I believe we might make this work, if we only cover
“catastrophic medical needs”.
Citizens should make part of
their budget for everyday minimal expense medical needs, say up to $100/per
event, then help the citizens with expenses above that certain amount. You plan
on money for housing, food, transportation, education, clothing, and those
expenses, well! medical care is also something you as a citizen are
responsible. Maybe that means a used car, an apartment, and an austere budget,
but that’s real life.
Look folks, I’m 84, and yes
now I’m on Medicare, which I’ve paid in to since 1965, and still pay about
$92/mo. Now I’ve been told, that to continue my Medicare Advantage, I must pay
an additional $233/mo.
My employer retiree benefit
that covered that has now been cancelled. When I threatened them with a class
action suit they relented and reinstated my Medicare Advantage. This was part
of my employment promise.
Obama told us, NO increase
in Taxes, but he didn’t say: Those items wouldn’t have an increase in price.
I did not need any Union to
get me a job, or keep my jobs because I was hired for my skills, worth my pay.
But before that, in order to
have insurance coverage for me, and my family, I made sure I worked for jobs
that had Medical Care benefits. Easy? Well that meant that all my life in my
job skills of Electronics, that I had to constantly learn new technologies,
state of the art, to remain employable. I did that. In 1982 (at age 55) I had
to start learning Computers to be a technician as part of my job, not a
hobbyist. We do what we must do: to remain in the job market, and that’s what
all of us have to do. There is no Free Lunch. I keep telling you this
fact of life, believe me. Remember even grocery clerks had to learn the
scanners, and other Electronic Cash Register operations to stay employed WE all
have to keep educated, so we can get those jobs with the benefits. Not depend
upon the government to support us.
I know people who spend $5/day on
cigarettes, and do not have medical insurance. Why?
Folks, it’s really “Can we/you afford this”?
One of OBAMA’S plan is to establish a 10% -28% Federal Sales
Tax to support FREE medical care.
Or tax those who have struggled to become rich; they deserve
to pay for your medical care, RIGHT? Redistribute the Wealth?
Where is Obama going to get the $1 Trillion needed to
support his Free Health Care proposal?
Robin Hood at your rescue? Tax the Rich for the Poor.
Even if you have a medical plan for yourself, someone will
pay the tax to cover those who do not have insurance. Soon your employer will
tell you, they are no longer covering your insurance, and you can get FREE
medical care from the government. OK?
Then: It is really simple, first the government will decide
if you deserve Health Care, you must meet a “means test”, age, income level,
how valuable are you to society, (and what Political Party are you
registered to?).
Then you will be on the waiting list (if you live long
enough), and someone else will decide even then Who is first, Someone’s on
Second, Maybe is on Third, you know the old joke, well the Joke is on you for wanting
government Health Care in the first place.
Read on, not
a this is comedy routine.
We must stop wasting Medical care on the aged, who will not
live much longer anyway. Right?
That will be our Government plan.
How many of you want the government to have a database about
your health? Now our President Obama has decided that if you have employer
provided Health care, you must pay income taxes on the value of that benefit,
or give up your Health Care and Join the Government “plan”.
Obama promised you, he’d only tax the RICH.
Do you have job?
Do you have health care?
You are RICH, and it’s time to tax YOU.
Obama wanted to appoint Ex-Senator Tom Daschle,
MD as Health and Human Secretary; that would give you the same kind
of Medical Care as the Federal Reserve gives all of you with bank accounts. I’m
telling you, YOU do not want this kind of Medical Care. That’s the fear I have
for your needs to be cared for by your government.
Read this data by Wes Vernon as to what the citizens
of South Dakota feel about Tom Daschle if he gets this power over your medical
care.
YOU DO NOT WANT THIS. This is a man who couldn’t
remember that he owed income taxes and refused to pay them until, it might
affect his being appointed to a position paid for by your taxes.
Even if it is someone else appointed to this
position, I’m afraid any successor would handle this plan the same way.
READ: http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/vernon/090209
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/vernon/090928
Wes Vernon is a Washington-based writer and veteran
broadcast journalist.
Obama has told you: He wants all of your
medical information to be in Computer Data Bases. So “anyone” can review your
medical history, and usage of medication. It must be “1984” again. So you will
get better medical care from the government?
Do you want the government involved in your
health care?
Read on. Maybe you don’t realize what you
would give up, to have your government in control of your medical care. Be sure
you understand the cost to your freedom to determine what Government Medical
care is going to cost you.
Now: When you buy any medication, aspirin or other over the
counter medications, we can keep track of that; just hold your arm over the
scanner as you pay for purchases. Oh did I mention we have to insert a very
small RFID chip in your arm, so that we,
and the Medical profession can make sure who you are, to prevent fraud of
course, so now we know what purchases you make, to be sure you are not spending
more than our income tax record shows that you claim you earned. All for your
own good of course, just to keep you honest, you are honest aren’t you, so why
should you complain if the government wants to monitor or murder you?
After all: It’s FREE, but you won’t be
FREE, just sell your SOUL.
You do want all of your medical record available on a
government database, don’t you?
Our
government does not want YOU to import Prescription Medications because they
may not be safe, and you just might save some money on Brand Name medications.
Then
you find out the American Medications were manufactured in China anyway
82 people died in 2008 from contaminated Heparin medicine from China. WHY? (CBS NEWS)
Remember people’s pets dying from Melamine contamination in the pet
food, from a China supplier.
Read all of this, it’s quite
involved and there are reasons for my plan; that will help you afford health
care.
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News
Flash: It
seems that insurance companies are now logging in to the Prescriptions Drugs
database, and in some cases denying you insurance based upon your usage.
So
how do you get insurance?
Not very
likely, as the Insurance Company, of course, only wants to insure healthy
citizens.
If you want “Cradle to Grave” coverage for everything in
your life, then move to Sweden, where everything is supplied, but you pay about
50% income taxes on everything.
If you want the freedoms we have in America, then this is
the story.
You have freedoms to make your own choices.
In America you only pay about 49.9% of your income for some
kind of tax or the other FEE’s.
How much insurance do you want to “BUY”? How much do you
want for FREE?
Now what are we talking about: Health Care, or Medical Care, these are not
the same.
Many of us have or had Medical Care; Health Care is far more
inclusive against our freedoms.
There are three needs of Medical Care:
Prevention,
Illness, and
Injury.
What I keep hearing is “Citizens should be entitled to free
health care”, Entitled?
Why? What you are entitled to; is to “Learn to earn”. Yes
that may seem unfair, but lets be serious, you can’t afford FREE Health care.
What do I mean you can’t afford FREE Health Care?
Do you want the government to control your “Health”?
Or do you want “Medical” Care?
First to control costs against citizens health,
Are you overweight? No insurance
Cholesterol over 200? No insurance.
Blood pressure too high? No insurance.
Use any illegal drugs, tested monthly? Of course NO
insurance.
Too many moving traffic violations? No Insurance.
And you want Free Medical Insurance?
After all, if you are not interested in living what “we”
think is a healthy lifestyle, why should the taxpayers cover your medical
costs?
Well there is no such thing as FREE.
Do you think the doctors are working for Free?
Do the hospital employees work for Free?
Of course not! So where does Free come from? From the taxpayers, YOU!
So how much increase in Income Taxes; are you willing to pay
to get “Free Medical
Care”?
I think we can provide Free Health care, for added income taxes
of $10,000/year for each person; then you get Free. Also remember when the
government takes your money for something, there is a Handling Fee, to support
the Government employees who monitor and run that plan.
Believe me you are going to pay, one way or another.
Medical Care is not Free: nothing is
Free.
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So now what? Well, I think we should “help” with Medical
Care for children, and seniors. As much as society has decided to provide
children with an education, so they arrive at adult life able to be
self-supporting. Health care is important up to that point, based upon the
child’s parent’s income level. And to help seniors after they no longer are in
the job market to pay for health care. That’s why we paid in to Medicare to
cover us in retirement.
You all have good jobs, you make a lot of money, everything
is low cost: “Oh” maybe I’m
going crazy, You’re out of
work, You’re losing your home to
foreclosure, the business where you worked has closed and moved out of America,
Well! Sort of moved, they still ship their product back to America for you to
buy with your unemployment checks, while the checks are still coming, what!
Your last check is next week, Oh well! You will probably find some work, I
understand Taco Bell is hiring (if you speak Spanish). You just have to have a
sense of humor. Why don’t I hear
you laughing?
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Now we come to another problem, government controlled Health
Care?
What system in the Government do you think operates
correctly?
You must be kidding, our government has never run anything
correctly in its existence.
Do you want to go to a government medical clinic?
Have you ever been to any government office for anything?
Do you want the government demand you get certain injections
for your health?
Are you ready to get a shot, that will make sure you conform
to the government controls, so you are submissive, and obey?
You want screwed up health care, welcome to Dreamland. The
New World Order
So what to do? Well let’s have various health care providers
compete for your business.
What we must do is make sure that “if providers are in
business”, they must take all applicants, even with pre-existing conditions,
and that some level of responsibility to provide good care, “monitored by the
government”.
But that has to be tempered with the right of the insurance
company to have certain health standards for patients to begin with, such as
the insurers weight, use of drugs, alcohol, etc.
“Sorry! But “for your age”, that procedure is not financially
practical”, care denied.
Is that what you want to hear?
Do you want our government to control private business, and
tell them how to run their business, and how much they can charge? Do you want
the government to tell you how to run “your business”?
As President, I will: “when it involves citizen safety”. I
will control the action of any company, if that affects your safety. We will
assess financial penalties to companies who have taken advantage of citizens,
when it involves danger to your health.
Of course some jobs have health risks, and you have to
decide if those risks are worth doing that work.
We can’t be protected from every risk in life. But your
insurance coverage costs will have to be based upon those risks you have
accepted.
If you ignore healthy living, why should taxpayers/or
insurers pay for your medical problems? So how are we going to ensure that you
live healthy? More invasion of your personal rights, but rightfully so, to be
sure “your lifestyle” is not going to cost taxpayers more money. So: If you
test positive for illegal drug use, no medical care? Cholesterol too high, why?
Now we will have to monitor your food purchases in the government database to
make sure you buy only healthy food. Not all illnesses are curable either;
remember that.
Do you really want the government to monitor your health?
Employers are becoming more and more careful about even the
financial status of an employee as they run credit checks on you before hiring.
Do you want an employer to scan the network to see your medical records, or
your purchase of alcohol or tobacco before they decide to hire you? After all
that may affect your ability to work for that company. I’ve read reports of
employees being terminated because they smoke, after work, at home. Not even on
company time, is this the future you want?
Are you willing to give up any privacy in order to get Free
anything?
Next will be the health of applicants, for jobs and
insurance. Already some employers are asking employment applicants to take a
medical exam/drug test, or other things like your Credit record?
Big brother: looking at you.
Remember in school, Your “Permanent Record”, well do you want
a Permanent Record by the government with today’s computers, computers that
never screw up?
All
of your wants, come with responsibility, if you want government help?
This
brings government data about your health, all in one nice database.
Freedom:
For “Cradle to grave care” in a government database?
We have so many people that “believe they are sick”, and will
be at the doctor every day to get attention.
Hypochondriacs galore, of course, so to end that, we have to
have some degree of Co-payment to keep some control over misuse of the system.
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As reported:
Speaking at a forum
sponsored by several health care organizations, then candidate Hillary Clinton
addressed a range of questions on the future of Social Security and Medicare,
racial and gender disparities in health care coverage and ways to encourage medical students
to become primary care doctors rather than specialists.
She didn't
directly address questions of whether smokers or obese people should pay more
for health care but said as president she would use the 'bully pulpit' to
encourage healthy lifestyle choices, particularly among young people. To help
you of course!
Most of all, there were
questions about her proposed $110 billion health care plan and how it would
bring order to a fractured system. Would this health care plan experience as
much fraud as the Elder Medicare plan? If we don’t have a national database on
all patients, then we won’t know if you are going to many doctors to get many
prescriptions of what might be dangerous when taken together.
I want you to see this is
not a simple employer sponsored Medical Insurance plan, locally controlled.
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Remember also, the insurance
company is not your friend; they operate on making a profit, whether they say
they are non-profit or otherwise.
The Profit part
comes in when they control costs by denying you Medical Care.
Now lets discuss, medical care!
Many citizens have/or had some form of Medical Insurance.
Then the insured, has a
medical problem, how much insurance covers that problem?
How many find there are
limits on medical care? Either cost or procedures covered, or not covered?
Many find even with
insurance, there are limits. And it’s usually that very expensive procedure
that has put you in financial stress to begin with. Cancer, or some other
drastic disease that you just can’t afford.
So don’t get Cancer!
The insurance company says:
“Yes, there may be a cure, but that cure is considered
experimental,
and we don’t pay
for that”.
Back to square ONE. How much
coverage do you get?
Everyone thinks, IF we had
Health Care we would have unlimited coverage for any illness.
No one has that now, except
for your politicians.
Remember you pay
Congress $14,600/month, they have Health care that taxpayers pay for, do you?
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Now lets look at this again,
the Term is Health Care, not Medical Insurance.
So what is your
government going to demand, so that you have “Health?”
Now our government, in order
to make sure you have “Health”, will be able to monitor your weight, smoking, alcohol
usage, and other health planning so you are less a risk for this coverage.
I know you haven’t thought
of all those problems, but be sure you really want what you’re asking for.
Service persons in the
military could be Courts Marshaled for being drunk, and a danger to government
property, what Government Property, well the service person is government
property. They tell you immediately when you are in the Military Service “We
own your ass, so don’t screw up”.
Do you want to be Government Property, owned by the
government?
You will be, if you do not fight back now.
The government wants to own your ass.
Remember how in some states
that have Smog Testing of your car, well lets have health testing of you every year,
to see if you have been living healthy, and if not, your permit to live can be
cancelled.
Only those willing to submit
to healthy living will be allowed to live in the community.
You might be a risk to
others if allowed to live.
We cannot put the public
money into providing medical care, if you are not going to participate in
living a correctly healthy life style.
Insurance does not
cure you.
It may pay for “some” care, but in the long run, we are going to die.
It’s only a matter of time.
Children die, some of us live to be 100 years old.
We do not know what is in
store for us, the best we can really do is to start out living for more
“health”.
Unfortunately our parents
feed us from birth, and as we get some choice of what we like to eat, we make
selections, but many times before we understand what diet has to do with our
health.
Many poor people eat what
they can afford, and too often, those are bad choices, but that’s all the
family can afford. Being rich does not mean you are eating a healthy diet
either. You are what you eat.
If you want private
insurance, that has already been available, all you have to do is “pay for it”.
Insurance rates are based upon the cost to provide care, even in Non Profit
plans. The insurer has the right to demand you meet certain health conditions
before enrolling you in their plan. Just as your auto insurance agent checks
your driving record when you apply for car insurance. Do you want a plan that
covers the family? Well if you are married, and this covers you, and your
spouse, if you (female) or your spouse (female) becomes pregnant, the insurance
has to cover that prospective event, so the insurance cost must include that
probability. I think one of the big rip offs is so called Prenatal Care, you
visit the doctor every month, the doctor listens to the baby’s heart beat and
in 99.9% everything is OK, and the doctor charges you for that 5 minutes as an
“hour of care”. Pay on your way out. That’s milking the situation, and our
doctors know that, it just helps pay for the Mercedes. As I understand it Women
have been having babies for a long time, without doctors. But now you have been
convinced that only a doctor can deliver babies, that you can’t do it without
them.
It’s called Money in the
bank, yet still in this day, in America, women die giving childbirth.
Now the new plan can only
cover the birth of the first child, any other births after that government
determined what’s best for our nations future will not be covered.
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As I said: “There
is no easy solution”, not just a simple, lets have government provided Health Care! For a
reasonable fee! What is reasonable? Now we will have to consider your income,
and we will have to review your budget, so the government can decide, “What you
can pay for Insurance”, that means the government can monitor your budget. Are
you ready for that?
As we monitor your bank
account we see that you can afford certain luxuries, and after all we want to include
all citizens, and if you are making more money than other citizens, then should
you pay more for Health Care?
Health Care payments; must
equal Health Care costs; plus some profit. Someone has to pay more taxes to
cover the costs for poor citizens who do not work as hard as you do. Whose
taxes are going to pay the extra costs? Should your insurance cost be equal to
any other citizen regardless of your income? Employer provided insurance on a
plan, with one standard price. Auto insurance is also based only on cost to
provide, and the price of your vehicle, some based upon miles driven for some
period of time, as that is a gage of prospective risk, and on your driving
record of tickets for mistakes you make. How are we going to give you insurance
coverage if you don’t live correctly? Deciding on the cost for Medical
Insurance is based upon how many people in the insured group, which is a gamble
for the insurance company.
Now what kind of Health Care
are you going to get, HMO’s limit possible coverage to control costs. Will you
be denied Health Care to control profits? If your procedure is more expensive,
maybe they will just deny what is wrong with you, and going to another doctor
for a second opinion, might cause your HMO insurance to be cancelled, as you
agreed as a member of their service that they are your total provider. All of
these things must be considered before you accept a certain plan.
Lets go back to
the beginning of Health Insurance. We got coverage from our job, but
some of us paid a minimal weekly fee, deducted from our paycheck. Great, then
we have a procedure done, and found the insurance only paid 80%, and we paid
20%. As soon as insurance companies started paying X number of Dollars “more”
for the procedure, the doctors increased their fees, figuring that since you
are only paying 20%, you could afford more and more and more. Every time your
insurance company agreed to pay more, doctors raised their prices. Constant inflation.
In 1958 Doctors charged $100
to deliver a baby in a hospital, and we were paying $10 for an office visit.
Compare that to today’s prices.
Now lets get to the very
expensive treatments. You have an illness, the doctor say’s “We have to
operate” and that is going to cost $20,000. The hospital costs equal $20,000,
the anesthesiologist charges $3000. The surgery took 4 hours. So the doctor
just charged you $5000/hr. Yes, the doctor knows how to do the procedure, but
is he really worth $5000/hr? Or is this greed?
Look at the costs in real
life, how much is greed? Why does the doctor charge that much? Is the doctor
living in poverty? Is that operating room in the hospital really worth
$5,000/hour? How much do they charge for a less critical operation?
Now if the government is
going to pay for these procedures, the government is going to control prices
too. You suffer, the doctor suffers; society suffers. A little honesty goes a
long way. If that doctor is paid hourly wages, why should he do anything more
than is necessary?
No profit motive to do any
more, than what he can get away with/per hour.
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If we still have Income
Taxes!
What I will do is give you 100% reduction of owing any income taxes, “on what
you pay for Medical Insurance”, and increase the reduction of Income Taxes for
medical expenses. When I cut a lot of government
spending, you will pay less taxes, and you will have more of your income (if
you are working) to pay for medical care, or insurance.
Remember I am
going to cancel Income Taxes on wages, so you will have a lot more money to pay
for Medical Care.
If you are not
working, I’m working on that problem too. If you are working you pay, if you
decide not to work, should you get free medical care? Why? Why aren’t you
working? Oh! Your company closed up and moved out of America where they don’t
pay any benefits? Good luck. Did you Vote.
But anyway we are
talking about financial responsibility, and if you want to improve the
financial status of America, then elect me.
I’ll bring those
jobs back to America, so you’ll have employer-financed insurance again.
Now what do we do about the
expense of Insurance? Our car insurance is based upon our driving record, and
in some cases the neighborhood we live in, as being more risky that somewhere
else.
Remember your credit score?
Those companies evaluate risk, based upon your life style, so will your medical
insurance rate be judged the same way? If not, why not? How risky is the area you live in? Are you
more likely to be shot, or assaulted and injured? Do you work in a job that is
more likely to cause you medical problems? I want you to see, this is something
that sounds great, but there are a lot of variable that are going to control
the costs. I will query OSHA for job injury risks, which will assign a rate of
which will determine your cost for insurance.
Look folks, it’s time to
start being responsible for your health if you want someone to make Health
Insurance available. Don’t tell me you can’t afford health insurance if you are
spending $5 a day on a pack of cigarettes, or spending $100/mo, or any amount
on alcoholic drinks.
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So do you want the
government involved in your health plan? Think about that, before you demand
that you “deserve” Health Insurance. If
you want the provider to have to accept all applicants, they have the right to
charge based upon risk. This is common sense taking again. Each time you have a
major health crisis, should your insurance cost go up? Your car insurance goes
up if you have too many tickets or accidents, so! Be careful demanding what you
want. Things come with strings attached. Overweight 20lbs? Insurance goes up
20%. See! Who determines if you are overweight, the government of course.
What do we do about the
unemployed? More and more of you are going to be unemployed, because you are
probably not going to elect me, you are stuck with a Democrat, and then cry
about being lied to, again and again. Are you 100 lbs overweight? And poor? Do
you smoke cigarettes, and drink alcohol? Then tell us we should give you free
health care, when you don’t care about your health to begin with?
What health care do you
think the United Nation is going to have for you? Do you want the government
having a legal reason to have a database about your health care? Responsibility
starts at home.
We must begin more research
to find help on viral infections. While we have antibiotics to control
Bacterial infections, too many citizens suffer from Flu, and other viral
infections. We need to fund, and find more solutions for that problem. While
there are some vaccinations for some viral infections (Polio, Measles), we need
more investigation to solve these problems.
If solutions are found using
government funding, then the government will control the price of those
medications, or vaccinations.
When you, or
your children need emergency medical care, and you go to the local emergency
room, what are you going to do when you find 30, 40, or more, illegal aliens in
line ahead of you? Illegal aliens who are there, even for non-emergency medical
care!
Your taxes, or
the hospitals income is partially paying for their FREE
care, while you’re at the end of the line. If the hospital is giving the
illegal alien or non-insured FREE medical care,
and you’re a paying customer, it’s part of “your fee” that you are paying, for
the FREE medical care of someone else.
That is, if you can even find an emergency
room open. Thousands of emergency rooms have closed, as they are unable to
afford to stay open, because of illegal aliens who can’t/don’t pay. Should Illegal Aliens get FREE medical care
for humanitarian reasons?
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Gee! Based
upon this idea, Illegal Aliens should also get free groceries, rent, (or home),
and a decent car, they deserve it, and “you” can pay for them to have this.
There is no end to FREE. I’ve worked for
everything I’ve ever received, that’s the American way. Some may say, Well I’m
getting Social Security, that’s free, well it wouldn’t be if I hadn’t paid in
to this plan for 50 years.
Nothing is
Free for me.
Even
if “you’re paying”, it’s first come, first serve, and you’re going to pay more
to make up for what those getting FREE care are not paying.
“75”
California Emergency Hospitals have closed in the last two years because they
couldn’t make a profit with so many Hispanics asking for FREE care. Are they
closing in your area? If you have an influx of Hispanics, your hospitals are
NEXT. They can’t run forever giving FREE care. Do you work for FREE?
To
add insult to injury, all homeowner-taxpayers in California were paying a Fee
(tax) of $72/yr to support Emergency Medical Centers, and the Centers are still
closing, too many illegal aliens wanting free medical care. (That fee now
raised to $94/year) how much more next year?
You
are not being denied Medical Care; you can get medical care, “and pay for it”.
It
is not like you Can’t get medical care at all. You just don’t have unlimited
“free” medical care.
Have you ever
looked in detail to Hospital Billings? $18 for giving the patient an Aspirin, and
similar hard to understand billings. Talk about Fraud, right from the Health
Care providers. Many of you have been shocked by billings on your hospital
bill, rightfully so. I’ve seen these bills, $20 for a 3” square gauze patch?
This is part
of what we also need to fight. You need medical care, you get it, and when you
question anything on the bill, it’s a clerk that tells you, “That’s our
policy,” PAY.
Remember that
the hospital made you sign a waver “not to sue them” before you entered the
Hospital?
You didn’t
read that paper you signed under duress; sorry that’s no excuse, PAY.
Medical care
has been a problem for centuries, only when the Unions started offering this
care as a part of employee benefits in the late 1930’s did this start to be
available.
Someone,
somehow has to “pay”, you pay as the cost of the employer funded medical care
is added to the cost of the product manufactured or service provided, or you’re
paid less wages, where do you think the money for medical care is going to come
from?
Your employer
is not giving you FREE Medical Care; that is part of your “pay package”.
Nothing
is “FREE”. Face it, “someone”, “somehow” has to pay for it. Do we add
additional tax on wages to pay for this? How about the unemployed? They go to
the local county hospitals if they exist, if not, they go to the local private
hospital that we have demanded provide these people with FREE medical care.
That
is like demanding that restaurants give free meals to the poor and hungry, is
that fair?
What
kind of work do you do?
Should
the government force “you” to provide your services for Free to someone who is
poor?
We would all
like FREE everything, that’s part of our having a free nation; you’re free to
get an education, as provided, that’s it.
You’re free to
work as hard as you want; to earn as much as you want, you are free to get as
much medical care as you can afford.
You eat a
“Hamburger”, someone richer eats “Filet Minion”, because they can afford it.
Now what else
has happened, is that medical care has become more advanced in technical skill,
this costs more too.
There
are very few local practitioners of medicine anymore, no more family doctors,
no more house calls, medicine has changed, technically for the better, “but
costs more”.
You may have a
cold, or you may have, who knows what? Medicine is more precise “now- a-days”.
So you may only have a cold, or bubonic plaque, or? When you look at cause of
death on medical reports prior to 1900, you only see a few diagnoses, such as
congestion, or consumption, not heart attacks, “kicked by a mule”, or many of
the precise causes of death now known. This costs more money. NO one just dies
of “natural death” anymore. The government wants details, so all of that costs
“money” so who pays? If you say “the Government” hey! You’re the government.
It’s your money one way or another.
So how much
are you, as a citizen, suppose to get for FREE? IF we decide that the
government must provide us with everything we want, that is not a FREE society.
Russian’s had
“Free Medical Care” under Communism; do you want Communism?
You only
deserve what you’re willing to work for, that’s our system. So get that
education, to get that job I’m going to bring back to America, and be
self-sufficient.
Remember jobs in
the 50 ‘s and 60’s that provided Health Care? Where are those jobs? Probably in
Mexico or China now? The jobs don’t
seem to be here anymore.
Remember now, that citizen who can afford that Filet Minion
probably has more education, that took them more time to obtain, worked harder,
or smarter to afford better. Did you get more education? Or deprive yourself
when younger, to be worth more as an employee to afford more than Hamburger?
That’s the answer in America. How much are you really worth as an employee to
your employer?
England has a government medical care system, all you have
to do for necessary medical care, is to wait in line for them to be able to fit
you in to the schedule, now if you really want “quick” medical care, you go to private
doctors and pay to get instant service. So England has a 2-tier medical system
care, the rich get good care; the poor (most of us) are on a waiting list. The
same thing happens in Canada. Is that what you really want? You really don’t
understand how this works. You do not want this; private Medical Insurance is
great if you can afford it. A nice home is great if you can afford it. A nice new car is great if you can afford
it. Medical Insurance is not a given, needed?, yes, but not FREE. I’m just being
honest. Why do Canadians come to America for critical medical care?
Most of my life, I myself have worked for business’s that
provided Health Care, I enjoyed repairing Radio’s and TV’s but those businesses
being small privately owned stores couldn’t afford the cost of Health Insurance
plans, so I went in to industrial electronics, better pay and still an
interesting occupation, that supported me and my family comfortably. With the security I knew I needed for my
family. You can do the same.
If America is still FREE.
My medical care provider, under Social Security, is the Kaiser Permanente Group,
and I’m very pleased with the care I receive when I need any care. There are
always going to be differences in opinion as to care needed vs. provided. But
medicine is not an exact science, that’s why we sometimes want to get a second
opinion before we get some advanced medical care.
I wish all Americans had access to Kaiser Permanente
care. There again in areas where this insurance is available it also comes in
degrees of coverage. Purchase the level of care you wish to receive, or can
afford. There are other health plans Blue Cross, Blue Shield, etc, some where
you choose your own local physician, and hospitals that work with each
provider, but of what Quality? I’ve found in “working with Kaiser” I’ve
received the best care available in America. But I’ve been informed already
that my coverage next year will be reduced, I don’t know by how much.
In the beginning of 2009 my co pay was increased.
You buy homes and cars, and other needs for your family
based upon your budget, medical care has to come within your budget, before
other luxuries.
Got your opinion of what you deserve? Let me know.
I worked in the Los
Angeles County Hospital for 15 years (as an employee of Univ. of So, Calif.
Medical School), and saw a lot of good care provided to the poorest of poor,
and of course there is some negligence, sometimes there is just too much work
to do, and not enough time or “skills” to cover every care needed.
“Emergency Doctors” want to help, but there is only so much
knowledge on diagnostics, and while that is getting better, a doctor who had
been on call for 18 hours may not be able to give you the best attention. Don’t
give up, just understand, giving the doctor the best description of your
symptoms, is a good start. Then following the doctor’s orders is next. You
alone must determine if you are getting better or worse, communicate closely
with the doctor, and use common sense. Doctors are not mind readers. Doctors
can’t off hand remember every single patient’s medical history, keep a diary of
your illness, and symptoms, take that to the doctors office with you to share
with the doctor. It’s your medical care, cooperate, and get well. Some of us
will not get well, we will die, someday. With the computer data bases now a
days, a lot of symptoms can be input into a search, and the more data you can
give the doctor, the more likely the doctor can get a diagnosis of your problem
and probable cure. Just telling the doctor, you don’t feel good, is a hard
start to get help.
Seniors visit this AARP site http://www.DividedweFail.org/story
and get involved to save our Medicare’s
reasonable medical care. Do you want the same quality of Medical care our
Congress and Senate get when they retire? Sure you do, HA. Good luck if you
voted for Obama. When you could have Elected Independent candidate Don Cordell for President.
Oct
2007, the Vatican has just declared that “all”
humans deserve free food, as a humanitarian right. I’ll believe that when the
Vatican offers to pay for the food. Maybe now I could afford to eat Filet
Minion at last, no more Hamburger.
What
if the United Nations decides that all people of the earth deserve food, and
ration food in America so we can feed the world? Don’t think this can’t happen,
these people can do anything they want, to make us support the world.
Obama
wants us (you and me) to divvy up $1.1Trillion a year to feed the hungry in the
world.
Can
I put you down for your contribution to this fund? It will only run you about
$32,000 a year for each person in your family.
You
do want to end World Hunger, don’t you?
Help
me get up, I’m laughing and crying so hard I can’t stand up.