Posted on 08/27/2009 1:04:35 PM PDT by TomTGradeczek
What a moron. Wants to do a Lewinski on 0bama, obviously. Wait til we get post office health care. Don’t you know 0 wants to make soldiers pay a deductible on their health care? Hope you’re happy with that, dipwad. My insurance companies have always treated me fairly. Yes, they are businesses, in business to make a profit. The problems we have all come from government intervention. In Texas, we were sold a bill of goods about “preventive medicine” through HMO’s. Guess what? Our deductibles went way down (now co-pays) but our premiums went through the roof. Give me the old system and cheap premiums. Get government out of my life and pocket.
What a moron. Wants to do a Lewinski on 0bama, obviously. Wait til we get post office health care. Don’t you know 0 wants to make soldiers pay a deductible on their health care? Hope you’re happy with that, dipwad. My insurance companies have always treated me fairly. Yes, they are businesses, in business to make a profit. The problems we have all come from government intervention. In Texas, we were sold a bill of goods about “preventive medicine” through HMO’s. Guess what? Our deductibles went way down (now co-pays) but our premiums went through the roof. Give me the old system and cheap premiums. Get government out of my life and pocket.
Comic books, no doubt.
Very true. I had my second son in '71, and the hospital bill was about $300. We didn't have health insurance at the time.
And thank you both, and all the Vets on this thread who served in our military to protect our freedoms. God Bless you all!!
Get a hold of Darkwing 104 or OldSarge.
> Canada (among many other countries) dictated terms to the pharmaceutical companies. Either supply the drugs at a deep discount, or generic drugs would be allowed to compete against the patent medicines. It’s free-riding plain and simple. Americans pay the full freight for developing the drugs. The rest of the world pays a far smaller share of R&D costs. If the same prices were offered in the U.S.; few, if any, new treatments would be developed there.
New Zealand does that too. And when the drug companies don’t play ball, they have no qualms about switching over to generics, making the Real Product unavailable at any price.
They did that with Aropax, one of the most often-prescribed drugs in NZ, replacing it with generic paroxedine. For most people with Depression, that worked fine.
But for some of us we began experiencing the known side-effects of Aropax/Paroxedine: interrupted sleep, hallucinations &tc.
The obvious solution would be to switch back from the generic to the real product Aropax, ay. Because as much as the generics like to say it’s chemically identical to the real thing, clearly they aren’t quite.
But anyrate, it becomes academic because the real thing, Aropax, cannot be bought in New Zealand at any price. The government bean counters have saved a few cents off each of the pills that you need to stay normal, so they’re happy. And if you complain they say “boo hoo sucks to you: most people are happy so toughen up.”
Freeloading sometimes has its unfortunate consequences, ay.
Bad experiences with the doctors, the hospitals and the system.
Sent one of my soldiers in for an ingrown toenail that needed minor surgery to remove.
Two weeks later, he was still in the hospital and an Army doctor was telling me “he might lost that foot”.
Dental care was top notch, because the Army can compete with “pro pay” at that level.
Tell the 4,000 moms in the UK who had to give birth in hospital elevators and bathrooms, you dreary little putz.
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