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<blockquote data-quote="Brandi" data-source="post: 2035934" data-attributes="member: 24446"><p>The system has been in trouble for a loooong time. I had two different doctors drop taking insurance altogether (during the Bush rule, OMG NO!) because the government signed some bill giving insurance companies more power which allowed them to go on a rampage of declining payment to doctors. I STILL have to pay out of pocket to see one of those doctors. This isn't an Obama issue it's a government issue...it's time to get tough with insurance companies and demand fair practices. As far as England goes, that people dying because they can't see specialists is just wrong. The population in England has a higher life expectancy than we do with our awesome docs, technology and healthcare. America turns it's people away routinely for not having insurance or for even not having the right insurance. Hospital staff literally push people out to the street once "stable" ....there some live, some die. </p><p></p><p>I've got insurance and it's a nightmare trying to get them to actually pay up. They hire teams of people specifically to find loopholes in your policy so they don't have to pay your claim. If you're uneducated you can call the English or Canadian or any other of other country that out lives US's system a socialist government but you just make yourself sound silly. It's sickening that the greatest country in the world sweeps its sick, injured and elderly under the rug to die out of the public eye unless they have the financial means to buy their lives from the system.</p><p></p><p>It's America's biggest current shame and there's no excuse for it. The republicans had year after year to do something and all they did was give the insurance companies more power to take in more premiums and pay out less. No American, insured or not, should live one major medical incident away from bankruptcy like they are now. There are countless cases of insurance premium paying, hardcore conservative republican families who ended up bankrupt and unable to feed their kids because they had a major medical expense. We all love to think that it only happens to someone else until it happens to us. </p><p></p><p>It was during the final Bush years that I left the republican party after being a staunch believer in the party. I don't know if Obama's plan is going to work or not but at least he tried which is more than I can say about my former political party. After this 2A crap I may have to go back but it won't be because of healthcare.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandi, post: 2035934, member: 24446"] The system has been in trouble for a loooong time. I had two different doctors drop taking insurance altogether (during the Bush rule, OMG NO!) because the government signed some bill giving insurance companies more power which allowed them to go on a rampage of declining payment to doctors. I STILL have to pay out of pocket to see one of those doctors. This isn't an Obama issue it's a government issue...it's time to get tough with insurance companies and demand fair practices. As far as England goes, that people dying because they can't see specialists is just wrong. The population in England has a higher life expectancy than we do with our awesome docs, technology and healthcare. America turns it's people away routinely for not having insurance or for even not having the right insurance. Hospital staff literally push people out to the street once "stable" ....there some live, some die. I've got insurance and it's a nightmare trying to get them to actually pay up. They hire teams of people specifically to find loopholes in your policy so they don't have to pay your claim. If you're uneducated you can call the English or Canadian or any other of other country that out lives US's system a socialist government but you just make yourself sound silly. It's sickening that the greatest country in the world sweeps its sick, injured and elderly under the rug to die out of the public eye unless they have the financial means to buy their lives from the system. It's America's biggest current shame and there's no excuse for it. The republicans had year after year to do something and all they did was give the insurance companies more power to take in more premiums and pay out less. No American, insured or not, should live one major medical incident away from bankruptcy like they are now. There are countless cases of insurance premium paying, hardcore conservative republican families who ended up bankrupt and unable to feed their kids because they had a major medical expense. We all love to think that it only happens to someone else until it happens to us. It was during the final Bush years that I left the republican party after being a staunch believer in the party. I don't know if Obama's plan is going to work or not but at least he tried which is more than I can say about my former political party. After this 2A crap I may have to go back but it won't be because of healthcare. [/QUOTE]
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