FReeper Forced To Join With Socialist Nitwits

self | June 06 2002 | moonman

[moonman]

They Won ... I Lost!

A few years back I posted my gripe about being forced to pay for government medical care for 70+ million Americans and trying to afford the wife and my own health insurance.

As of July 01 2002, I will be joining the nation's 'un-insured' for the first time in 52 years.

Due to my previous medical problems, along with my wife's current ones, I was able to get and maintain health insurance through a group HMO plan. They have not dropped me. My July 1st 2002 premium is $898.00 per month.

To me, it's very quite simple. It was well orchestrated to become as it is now. Squeeze him till he begs for a national health insurance plan.

I'm beggin!

[GraniteStateConservative]

And that's why the GOP has to get in front of this issue and offer some solution or it'll be stampeded.

[JohnGalt]

And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.

Good luck, friend.

[ConsistentLibertarian]

"To me, it's very quite simple. It was well orchestrated to become as it is now. Squeeze him till he begs for a national health insurance plan." Slow down. Who orchestrated this plan? And how could it have been averted? Ie, what steps should a Republican President or Republican congress have taken to avoid you being squeezed?

[Black Agnes]

OOO, I can't *wait*. 4 year queues for bypass surgery, 'lotteries' for chemotherapy, and no more private rooms unless you're a connected official or sports star!

[Bon mots]

There's one thing about life... nobody gets out of it alive.

Getting out of it does cost more in some countries than in others, takes longer too.

Stay healthy. Eat less red meat. Drink a glass of red wine. Exercise and keep trim. Don't smoke. Don't get AIDS... Hope your genes are good... your reward at the end? A box.

Uncommonly cynical tonite...

[anniegetyourgun]

If you are a Christian, you know that we are to bear one anothers burdens. That's faith-based love in action and doesn't require government dependence.

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[TomGuy]

My HI did an interim increase in February--22% increase. Yesterday, I got a notice that my July rate will increase 18% above the February increase. That equals out to a 44% increase over what I paid in January. I question whether I can afford to keep it. What irks me is that I carry a high deductible anyway and I have never had a medical claim for them to pay anything out.

[DoughtyOne]

Ouch. I'll bet that if government wasn't offering the healthcare coverage it does, you're insurance payments would probably be half what they are. Someone's got to cover for the government only paying about 50 cents on the dollar for the healthcare they purchase from hospitals. Now the insurance companies are doing it too. And then there's the illegals that get their care for free. Hospitals are being squeezed to the breaking point. So are people like you. Sorry to hear it.

[Frohickey]

I bet that if you weren't paying for government medical care for the others during the past 52 years, you could probably afford health insurance now.

[winodog]

The scumbag from little rock whose husband was P will get her plan just a few years later then she wanted it. We(people who work and pay taxes) are being forced to pay for the health cost of all those who do not work and for gov.org workers who collect a paycheck but do not produce anything.

There is no way a business and those such as yourself who have to pay for their own insurance can continue to pay for the health cost of those who do not produce. Soon gov.org will step in. It is just another step down the ladder. America has become a democracy that craves for a cradle to grave mommy.

Sooner or later the walls will come tumbling down. I honestly do not see anyway to change the outcome short of watering the tree of liberty.

[RAT Patrol]

I don't have insurance either. I'll die before I support a national healthcare plan. No one is less qualified to fix the healthcare problems in this Country than the power hungry, bookkeeping-challenged, buy campaign vote driven government.

[Eagle Eye]

Sorry to say, I feel your pain. My family coverage is now gone.

Actually the government is the problem and not the cure unless they unbundle coverages so that people like yourself dont have to pay for maternity coverages and get people to stop viewing medical insurace as a pre-paid medical plan.

We don't veiw car insurance pre paid scratch and ding repair, do we? No, we pay the small stuff ourself and never report it.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

I am so sick of FICA (This FICA person :-) must be RICH huh?) and social security robbing my paycheck blind. When I won't get any SECURITY I will bet.

I am also sick to death of able bodied Americans scamming the government with welfare fraud.

[Eagle Eye]

Last year, one of my wife's co-workers was bragging about how much they got back in taxes through massaging the system (dual income, unmarried,living together with kids, both claiming the kids, EIC, etc). The amount they got back and used to buy a new car was almost identical to the amount of the check I had to write. Talk about po'ed.

[Search4Truth]

I am in the same situation as you my friend. My heart goes out to you and yours.

Several years ago I managed 2 CRM (Customer Relationship Management) projects for an HMO. The atmosphere was one of uncertainty as to what new hurdles the government was going to impose on them. It put them in a constant state of indecision. Because of this, the last project was a difficult, to say the least.

All that has to happen is for the government to get out of the health care business and let Free Enterprise do what it has done so well, so many times before in America.

Search4Truth

[MsCynic]

Yee Gads! $898.00 a month! Good luck to you.

[moonman]

Thanks for the support. Sad thing is ... a whole lot of other people will be (or already are) in my position shortly. We all know it was government that caused health care and prescriptions to become unaffordable without some type of insurance hedge. The numbers have us beat. What politian is going to tell 70+ million Americans that government needs to get out of the health care business and their Medicare/Medicaid Plans are a bad deal for rest of America and to go get their own insurance. It's too late to return to days of personally negociating with the doctors and hospitals. Once they think something is free (sic), ain't none of them giving it up!

[Fish out of Water]

*Index Bump

[goodnesswins]

Can't you get a "catastrophic policy" and then pay your way for the other things? It might be a saving grace, though, that you don't see doctors and hospitals much - they're really SICK (and I mean that).....STAY WELL, eat well, exercise well, and pray.