tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post6928668567847389620..comments2023-09-29T06:58:20.125-07:00Comments on Badtux the Snarky Penguin: Our so-called health care systemBadTuxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-48969671067259079482009-01-31T18:39:00.000-08:002009-01-31T18:39:00.000-08:00Actually I do live in CA.And I'm on the short end ...Actually I do live in CA.<BR/>And I'm on the short end of the stick all the way around:<BR/>1. Self employed small biz<BR/>2. Can't afford health care because...<BR/>3. Biz is directly affected by heath of economyRuckushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18059765383428059804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-59790607813812484962009-01-28T16:28:00.000-08:002009-01-28T16:28:00.000-08:00Yeah, MB, there's a lot of people who would start ...Yeah, MB, there's a lot of people who would start their own businesses if it were possible for them to get affordable health insurance. Many of these people could do far more productive stuff with their own business and add far more to our economy. Instead they're stuck doing unproductive things for larger businesses.<BR/><BR/>James: Yep.<BR/><BR/>Bukko: Every other modern industrialized nation manages to provide universal health coverage for all their citizens. Some of them, like France, surpass the U.S. on every measure of health care availability, provision, and outcomes, whether it's number of doctors, access to advanced medical treatments, or outcomes. Nationalized health insurance works. We have proof it works. The only reason not to do it is ideology. There is a term to describe nations where ideology trumps pragmatic reality: "Has-beens." Just ask the USSR. Oh wait, you can't...<BR/><BR/>Ruckus, clearly you don't live in a state that has a Medicaid crisis. Here in California, Medicaid payments have been cut so far that the only way hospitals can stay in business is by ripping off everybody else. Thing is, the insurance companies refuse to be ripped off. They pay what they think is appropriate, and that's that. So that means ripping off the un-insured instead...<BR/><BR/>- Badtux the Healthcare PenguinBadTuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-62760579603643095912009-01-28T13:54:00.000-08:002009-01-28T13:54:00.000-08:00Sometimes it's not the uninsured that get screwed....Sometimes it's not the uninsured that get screwed. My local hospital gives a 25% discount for tests when you don't have insurance. Like me.<BR/>I say screw all those rich pundit bastards who don't want "socialist" government. I want health care. I NEED health care. And I'm only one of what is it now 45+ million? What does it say about a country that can't provide basic needs of it's citizens?Ruckushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18059765383428059804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-11498639851489505292009-01-28T13:40:00.000-08:002009-01-28T13:40:00.000-08:00F*ckin' A the government should do it. If a slack-...F*ckin' A the government should do it. If a slack-arse (albeit basically nice) nation like Aus-freaking-stralia can manage a medical system like that, why can't the U.S.? Except for that hostile dictatorship of dunces bit...Bukko Boomerangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02424677168216647964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-48143026595392926092009-01-28T13:33:00.000-08:002009-01-28T13:33:00.000-08:00That's fucking insane.That's fucking insane.James F. Elliotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16747033407956667363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-9365714094944159542009-01-28T08:27:00.000-08:002009-01-28T08:27:00.000-08:00tux, the week before i appeared on jeopardy i was ...tux, the week before i appeared on jeopardy i was in my kitchen, doing some truffle trimming. there i was working my knife, thinking about what i would say to alex and bam, stabbed my finger. <BR/><BR/>a few hours, and three stitches later, the hospital billed my insurance company for nearly 3k.<BR/><BR/>a grand per stitch. this has gotten insane.<BR/><BR/>luckily i have insurance coverage for life through the musician's union. otherwise, the dream of the truffle business would be unattainable.The Minstrel Boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00697821546165315014noreply@blogger.com