Has the politics of our healthcare system impacted your life?!
Question: Is it a good thing the way Richard Nixon got the ball rolling for the HMO profit making insurance industry. Have you ever had a problem. Is everybody happy? I must watch that movie "Sicko" after the holidays. I have a problem with some technicalities with my insurance.
Answers: Is it a good thing the way Richard Nixon got the ball rolling for the HMO profit making insurance industry. Have you ever had a problem. Is everybody happy? I must watch that movie "Sicko" after the holidays. I have a problem with some technicalities with my insurance.
Yes it absolutely has. I am 26 and employed full time, but my employer (a small business) does not offer benefits due to the outrageous cost. I tried to obtain insurance privately, but due to a chronic preexisting condition I was denied left and right even IF I could afford the $300+ monthly premiums.
The state of US healthcare is a pitiful one, and I hope that legistlation is passed to put a cap on the amount of profits insurance companies can make. People who need care are going without simply so these companies can make loads of money. I've seen Sicko, and the movie made me very mad, even though I'm not a raging fan of Michael Moore. People are literally dying for change in this area, and I hope it is an issue we can come to some reslove on soon.
I have never had a problem with my health care but I am severly against this idea of National Healthcare that the democrats are pushing.
Canada currently has the system in place and although the drugs are cheap the actual health care sucks. In my hometown alone emergency rooms are shut down on weekends and people are left to die in the streets while people like my grandmother and others who are not members of the party in power of our local district are bumped down the list of transplant recipients not only because they are not members of that party but also because of their names. We don't have race discrimination, we have discrimination based off the language you speak. My 70 year old grandmother had to wait 5 years for a kidney transplant because her family name was English and all those who needed a kidney with a French name had to be taken care of first. National Healthcare lets the government pick favorites as to who gets medical care and that is not something I think America should let their politicans do.