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More Bad News for the Middle Class and Their Health Care
American Thinker ^ | August 7,2014 | Keith R. Jackson

Posted on 08/07/2014 6:34:11 AM PDT by Hojczyk

In the hospitals, we see the consequences. While the poor and the illegal immigrants get absolutely free care, the middle-class patients are collapsing financially under the strain of their deductibles and their lost income from their time off work, not to mention the additional stress of their illness. In our clinics, sick patients are choosing to forego testing, medicines, and surgery that they need solely because of cost. Instead they are living with their illnesses, often with cheap antibiotics as a means of delaying the inevitable.

To make matters worse, the patients getting their health care for free will ask for taxi vouchers, food stipends, and the like right in front of these other people, never thinking that what they are requesting is an affront to the sensibilities of the people paying their bills with our tax dollars. Seeing the middle class visibly suffer like this when the president told them during the elections that they would see their costs “go down $2,500 per family” is a heinous outcome of a preposterous government overreach.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; exchanges; midleclass; obamacaredisaster; obamacarepremiums; obamacaresubsidies
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
let me tell you....you come to the hospital and you tell them you have no money, no home, no problem....if you don't have a home, its the hospital's responsibility to figure it all out for you....sometimes its just a taxi ride to the shelter....but often it just means keeping you in the hospital for several weeks just because no extended care facility will take the patient, let alone family...the hospital eats the cost....

and these people...they think we're they're maids....color tv with cable...private rooms with showers...free food delivered to your room, and you just have to push a button to have some one fetch your ice water or move your pillows for you.......

21 posted on 08/07/2014 7:12:29 AM PDT by cherry
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To: broken_arrow1

yep....elections have consequences, freepers...


22 posted on 08/07/2014 7:13:06 AM PDT by cherry
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To: Arlis

Back in 2011 I had elective surgery.

A procedure that one had to wait up to six weeks to schedule 5 years earlier.

When I called to schedule, the schedule was wide open. 5 surgeons and a wide open schedule.


23 posted on 08/07/2014 7:14:26 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: Truth29
there is not going to a revolution...we're in apathy....nobody is going to doing nothing...

the blackmarket and crime in general will increase, especially among the working and middle class, just to survive..

24 posted on 08/07/2014 7:14:41 AM PDT by cherry
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To: cherry; txrangerette

I’m so glad you recognized that as sarcasm. There are so many around here who need a neon “sarcasm” sign.


25 posted on 08/07/2014 7:20:39 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: gingerbread
I've come around to the fact that we should avoid the health care system as possible...

I'm trying to get my weight better....I'm avoiding a lot of over the counters meds that are horrible on your liver and kidneys...I'm trying to kick the soda habit...

mostly, the human body was made to fight off most infections and viruses on its own....we don't need to run to the doctor for sniffles, head colds, back aches, etc...time does heal all for the most part...

26 posted on 08/07/2014 7:23:27 AM PDT by cherry
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To: gingerbread
I've come around to the fact that we should avoid the health care system as possible...

I'm trying to get my weight better....I'm avoiding a lot of over the counters meds that are horrible on your liver and kidneys...I'm trying to kick the soda habit...

mostly, the human body was made to fight off most infections and viruses on its own....we don't need to run to the doctor for sniffles, head colds, back aches, etc...time does heal all for the most part...

27 posted on 08/07/2014 7:23:27 AM PDT by cherry
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To: Arlis

I had my knee joint replaced last week and I had to pay a $943.00 deductible for the surgery my insurance doesn’t cover.


28 posted on 08/07/2014 7:25:17 AM PDT by Citizen Soldier (I dream of country without liberals.)
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To: Oorang

now is the time to remind anyone who has served in the military that you do have some benefits thru the VA, and even if they just help with your medicines its worth it....getting on VA though can be tricky..


29 posted on 08/07/2014 7:25:56 AM PDT by cherry
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To: gingerbread
CATASTROPHIC INSURANCE is still very cheap.

If you could point me to cheap catastrophic insureance, I would appreciate it. I am retired but not yet Medicare eligible.

We have essentially the policy you describe and it costs us $1200 a month. Not cheap in my book.

30 posted on 08/07/2014 7:29:58 AM PDT by super7man (Oh why did I post that, now I'll never be able to run for Congress.)
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To: Hojczyk

Obama and his thugs hate the middle class.


31 posted on 08/07/2014 7:36:26 AM PDT by GOPJ (If everything is terrorism, then nothing is terrorism - former senior FBI special agent David Gomez)
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To: Arlis

Might be cynicism on the Docs part too. I’ve been told that morale in the medical professions has pretty much cratered.

I just can’t see the argument that if you truly hate Obamacare then you haven’t experienced having your healthcare options dictated by the same people who run the Post Office not resonating.

I am glad to see that, with the final run in to the midterms almost underway, more focus is being placed on Obamacare’s problems. Stuff like this will seep out, especially if candidates and PACs start talking about it in advertising.


32 posted on 08/07/2014 7:37:50 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: cherry

Good for you. My husband and I are 54. We eat healthy, take supplements and keep our weight down. True, it costs but we figure it is cheaper than being sick.


33 posted on 08/07/2014 8:23:22 AM PDT by Dr. Abulafia
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To: gingerbread

We’ve done this for years. Until now. Our “catastrophic insurance” with a $12,000 deductible is going UP $300 a month for 3 people. Now even this option is unaffordable at $1000+/month.


34 posted on 08/07/2014 8:25:45 AM PDT by larryholycow
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To: Hojczyk
I saw this sh*t first hand when my daughters, their mother and I were college shopping in Virginia. One of the girls likes to photograph and stepped a little too far back on some stone steps and either twisted or broke her ankle.

I wasn't taking any chances, so I helped her in the car and took her to the nearest ER. She sat their waiting in pain for us to be called. First, Dad had to produce the health insurance card. Then he had to come up with a $100 co-payment. Then finally some more waiting until they consented to see her.

Meanwhile, the illegals just waltzed in with cold and sniffles type symptoms, pointed to the sign that they needed "Spanish" and got ushered right in without insurance, co-pays or waiting.

35 posted on 08/07/2014 8:42:25 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: cherry
My father, God rest his soul, had this philosophy way back when we were kids. He was a veterinarian and could get us animal antibiotics which he knew were safe for humans.

We need to find a veterinarian for said purpose now. We do have a chiropractor who will treat the spinal related ailments for discounted cash on the barrel-head.

36 posted on 08/07/2014 8:47:41 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The middle class should not only be denied healthcare, they shouldn’t exist -

this is the goal.


37 posted on 08/07/2014 8:48:24 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: tanknetter

Assuming that someone would even clamor for single payer when government control of healthcare as it is now in Obamacare is such a dismal failure, what kills me is how people would think that single payer would improve the ability to get care. It will take even longer, the quality will be inferior, or worst of all they won’t get it at all.


38 posted on 08/07/2014 8:51:48 AM PDT by Ronniesque
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To: MrB

The Kulaks are to blame!


39 posted on 08/07/2014 8:59:15 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: Oberon
Lots of people will go to India or Thailand for their joint replacements... you can fly there, have a month-long vacation, the surgery, a month-long recovery, and fly back for less than the cost of just the surgery in the US.

What stops Indian or Thai doctors from botching the job?

Where's the accountability?

Can you sue them for malpractice? What?

40 posted on 08/07/2014 9:08:12 AM PDT by Age of Reason
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