DIYbanter - View Single Post

HeyBub[_2_]

wrote:

Hell, my wife can't even get a bone density scan because insurance
won't pay for it and we have deductibles to pay from her accident that
insurance won't pay. She is being denied treatment because we owe
$10,000 and haven't yet paid it all off yet, work and are citizens. I
guess the answer is to only get hurt or get sick if you have the means
to pay for it? "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" ? Not for
all. And we have worked our butts off our entire lives.
Of course there are people who are without insurance by choice. Of
course an inordinate amount of tax money is spent on the health of
illegals aliens, the shiftless and criminals. What about those of us
who have served our country well, worked all of our lives. Maintained
a legal lifestyle and have always tried to do the right thing for
ourselves and our country? I can go to the VA but the nearest clinic
is 75 miles from me.

Choices have consequences. You chose to not have your deductible available
in ready cash. You chose to live in a location far from VA facilities.

I live six blocks from a major medical centers. Next to the hospital are two
12-story buildings full of everything from dentists to thoracic surgeons. My
cardiologist has a new $15 million angiogram machine IN HIS OFFICE (it's a
big office)! The hospital next door does about 100 angiograms and
angioplasties A DAY. The VA hospital is about 12 miles away (in city
traffic, it's probably equivalent to fifty).

I'm not sure if gov't run health care (look at the debacle that IS the
VA) is the answer but something needs to be done. Maybe the ceo's of
these companies need to learn to live on a few billion $ less.
"LIFE, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" sounds like a
constitutional guarantee to me.

I can't see why the VA medical system can't be converted to an equivalent
insurance scheme. Vets get the same class of care they would at the VA, but
they get to choose any hospital; then it wouldn't matter so much where the
veteran lived.