When I was in fourth grade, my father, who was 38 and who had been perfectly healthy, came down with a paralyzing neurological disorder. He was in the hospital for nine months, and he got out when he had recovered enough strength so that he could help my mother as she moved him from a bed to a wheelchair. For the first month or so of his hospital stay he had to have a nurse beside his bed every minute of the day, 24 hours of the day, in case he stopped breathing. I could go on. Anyway, as it happened he had a super-duper medical plan and we never paid a penny. If we hadn’t had that kind of coverage we would have been bankrupt many times over. I believe in good health insurance for everyone. You never know what might happen.
So, David what’s the meme this month…? “The website will get fixed eventually…”? That’s a minor problem compared to the higher cost of plans for most people, the looming employer mandate… You know, the one Obama illegally put off a year then moved back another 5 weeks illegally to put its implementation after the 2014 election to avoid having something up to possibly 100 million workers finding out their premiums will skyrocket in cost or that they will have their insurance cancelled…Then there’s the “tax” penality for all those people who didn’t bother to get insurance that the IRS doesn’t even know how it will collect it.Or, the looming “death sprial” that is likely when early next month the data becomes available on just who did sign up and they find it is the pre-existing contitions, high risk groups, and that the young and healthy are taking the “tax” instead. That alone will destroy the plan..So, Dave, what’s the meme this month?
“Universal healthcare today tomorrow and forever.”.I have no problem with that on one caviat: That the government has no hand, zero part, in running it. After all, they can’t manage Obamacare, they can’t do flood insurance right, they’ve messed up Social Security and Medicare / cade like a soup sandwich. So, if universal health care does become a reality I want government having no role in it.
No Adrian I don’t believe most of the advertising I see, whatever the source. However, big business has several advantages in my favor over government..It has to be efficent and at least break even on cost effectiveness or it goes out of business. Government just raises taxes to cover their loss..Big business cannot coherse or force you to buy their product(s), government can. Big business cannot imprison or otherwise threaten you like government can if you don’t want what they are selling..Big business will listen to customers most of the time as opposed to government who doesn’t have to pay attention to their “customers” at all..That is why I would not want government running universal anything.
Lisa Benson inadvertantly brings out the point out that the Pilgrims were originally headed for the mouth of the Hudson River (at the time part of the Virginia Territory), but after getting to Cape Cod and then encountering fierce stroms trying to complete the journey south, the decided to settle for Plymouth Rock.
So the Pilgrims probably could have used a helpful link to the Government Meterological Service for some advice about when best to make the voyage.
Enoki over 10 years ago
Thankfully, back then they could kill all the lawyers.
lonecat over 10 years ago
When I was in fourth grade, my father, who was 38 and who had been perfectly healthy, came down with a paralyzing neurological disorder. He was in the hospital for nine months, and he got out when he had recovered enough strength so that he could help my mother as she moved him from a bed to a wheelchair. For the first month or so of his hospital stay he had to have a nurse beside his bed every minute of the day, 24 hours of the day, in case he stopped breathing. I could go on. Anyway, as it happened he had a super-duper medical plan and we never paid a penny. If we hadn’t had that kind of coverage we would have been bankrupt many times over. I believe in good health insurance for everyone. You never know what might happen.
Enoki over 10 years ago
So, David what’s the meme this month…? “The website will get fixed eventually…”? That’s a minor problem compared to the higher cost of plans for most people, the looming employer mandate… You know, the one Obama illegally put off a year then moved back another 5 weeks illegally to put its implementation after the 2014 election to avoid having something up to possibly 100 million workers finding out their premiums will skyrocket in cost or that they will have their insurance cancelled…Then there’s the “tax” penality for all those people who didn’t bother to get insurance that the IRS doesn’t even know how it will collect it.Or, the looming “death sprial” that is likely when early next month the data becomes available on just who did sign up and they find it is the pre-existing contitions, high risk groups, and that the young and healthy are taking the “tax” instead. That alone will destroy the plan..So, Dave, what’s the meme this month?
Enoki over 10 years ago
“Universal healthcare today tomorrow and forever.”.I have no problem with that on one caviat: That the government has no hand, zero part, in running it. After all, they can’t manage Obamacare, they can’t do flood insurance right, they’ve messed up Social Security and Medicare / cade like a soup sandwich. So, if universal health care does become a reality I want government having no role in it.
Enoki over 10 years ago
No Adrian I don’t believe most of the advertising I see, whatever the source. However, big business has several advantages in my favor over government..It has to be efficent and at least break even on cost effectiveness or it goes out of business. Government just raises taxes to cover their loss..Big business cannot coherse or force you to buy their product(s), government can. Big business cannot imprison or otherwise threaten you like government can if you don’t want what they are selling..Big business will listen to customers most of the time as opposed to government who doesn’t have to pay attention to their “customers” at all..That is why I would not want government running universal anything.
Enoki over 10 years ago
I know enough about it to know I’d rather deal with it than the government any day.
ArtSertorius over 10 years ago
Lisa Benson inadvertantly brings out the point out that the Pilgrims were originally headed for the mouth of the Hudson River (at the time part of the Virginia Territory), but after getting to Cape Cod and then encountering fierce stroms trying to complete the journey south, the decided to settle for Plymouth Rock.
So the Pilgrims probably could have used a helpful link to the Government Meterological Service for some advice about when best to make the voyage.