Posted by floatingbridge on August 4, 2011, at 19:30:56
In reply to Health Reform + Reducing Meciaire Reembursements, posted by Phillipa on August 3, 2011, at 20:09:21
This first statement belongs on politics. Let's see how well I can manage this one.
I don't understand the logic of the Tea Party.
I am tired of the name Tea Party. Does it refer to Alice in Wonderland or the Revolution? I can't decide.
When I see what my insurance is billed for my services and my medication, I am continually stunned. I could never ever
pay that. Right now, we have insurance. My husband calls it the golden handcuffs.I also feel frustrated and angry knowing that, somehow, the general public is paying for my insurance, that good doctors
and hospitals are being low-balled, and hospitals, at least CA work in a deficit. In fact, in this state they are often hemorrhaging.I am, I suppose, if forced to declare, into socialized medicine.
I don't trust insurance companies and the free market to sort these things out.James M Cain, an odd-ball noir writer used insurance as a deeply imbedded plot device in some of his crime novels. Short version was that it was legalized gambling. All about
the odds. He discusses this directly in The Postman Always Rings Twice. It was written when insurance was nascent. Forget the film version. The observations of how this new idea of insurance was affecting the lives of people was axed to highlight the personal passions of the protagonists. Really, the unbridled greed of insurance and law organizations really
fueled that book. I guess that type of passion seems overlooked.If I have to run a sober budget at home, why can't the government manage? The US has an incredible military budget. Oddly enough, the soldiers on the ground are getting low-balled too. Their families have to pool resources to supplement their body armor and other items.
I certainly don't have answer.
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