@Red cv,
Red;37549 wrote:It brightens my day to see so many intelligent Americans shun socialized medicine, I live it daily and it doesn't work. The weak minded left/socialist will never give up their dream of utopia. If they win we shall be expected to foot the bill yet again for their social experiments.
Anyone can see that you are, undoubtedly, "childless", and have no elderly dependents (i.e "grandparents") living. I am not interested in doctors and hospitals and insurance companies getting "rich" off of the backs of patients and patient care. A bedpan and a urinal are practical hospital items that need not be "gold-plated", and can be used by rich and poor, alike.
I got a $21,000 + bill for a 3 day hospital stay for pneumonia, back in 2004.
I also was a hospital billing auditor, for 2 yrs....and I know that at least half of my bill was "waste" and "excess and exorbitant" charges, "unfounded"...my portion after Medicare paid out $5000 +, was $1000 +, of which is in dispute.
A 3 day hospital stay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! $21,000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now you tell me, what typical American can afford those kind of figures, on their own, without some kind of assistance.....No one, I tell you. Which means the system is broken. The only one's profiting are doctors, hospitals and insurance companies (in this case, Medicare is being "overcharged", which puts a drain on the funds available to some one else in need)...I say it again.
The system is broken....
And that joke that Congress instituted Medicare Part D, the drug benefit program....made my drug costs skyrocket, and my premiums almost unaffordable...The system is broken...my case is typical...there are thousands of people in worse shape than I'm in....The system is broken....did you understand that? The system is broken.....people are not getting the little bit of care, we're paying for. So, be looking for 'the revolution", hear?