HeyBub wrote:

DGDevin wrote:

What cracks me up is folks upset at the notion of some govt.
bureaucrat telling them which sort of health care they'll be allowed
to have as if the same damn thing doesn't happen today with insurance
company bureaucrats. I had an MRI awhile back and the hospital
wouldn't give me an appointment until they'd heard from the insurance
company. Ditto with appointments with specialists and so on, it all
requires approval from some guy in a cubicle a thousand miles away.

[...]

Here's the difference: If you don't like the way your insurance
company treats you - and your observation tends to imply that
direction - you're free to change insurance companies!

Horsecrap. My wife and I have employer-provided insurance, but if we left
that coverage I'd be one of those "pre-existing condition" cases, in other
words, **** out of luck. There was a documentary on PBS not long ago that
mentioned the CEO of Kaiser Permanente is in the same boat--uninsurable
outside company coverage. Got any facile advice on what people should do
when in that situation, any easy slogans?

What do you do if you don't like the way the GOVERNMENT health-care
system treats you?

I guess you could move to Canada...

Where a major illness doesn't raise the specter of bankruptcy, yeah,
wouldn't that be terrible.