So, if you like government involvement in health care, keep showing up at the doctor's office.
or find a doc that will work with for cash … that way you can still have health care and not worry about insurance or the feds ( and yes I know at some point this will be against the law too)
Easy for you to say but hard for the majority of folks to do. People who are ill, have a disease or condition that requires medical attention or surgery to maintain or correct their problems, can’t just boycott the system and not show up at the doctor’s office. Your so-called advice is worthless to those who need medical care or who are wealthly enough to pay cash for everything. Where or how else are they to get medical care?
I notice you have no alternative solution to your pronouncement. You are either young, healthy or both and/or haven’t yet had to stare severe suffering, death or bankruptcy in the face for not having the resources to pay for a life-saving treatment or be financially ruined. People like you don’t add one iota to the debate on healthcare and insurance in this country by throwing out ludicrous ideas into the discussion that are not realistic. You, like myself and many others, may not like Obama or big government or even the insurance companies, but your ego has gotten in the way of your intelligence. You are too clever by half for you own good, as the saying goes.
My comment #10 should have read:
“Your so-called advice is worthless to those who need medical care or who are NOT wealthy enough to pay cash for everything.”
I had quadruple bypass open heart surgery with a valve repair two years ago. The costs were over $500,000. The VA and Medicare paid for it. These catastrophic events are what medical coverage is for. I, unlike you apparently, did not have a spare half a million dollars in spare change laying around the house to pay for it out-of-pocket. Thank heavens for my VA and insurance coverage or I would have been bankrupt.
Why should I tear up my Medicare Part A card? I was forced to pay a Medicare tax when I worked to help pay for hospital costs now that I’m over 65. What I don’t have to tear up, because I never got them, is Medicare Part A or the pharmaceutical program for seniors.