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OBAMA ENTERS NATIONAL HEALTH CARE BIDDING WAR
It seems several of the commenters here have very little negative experience with the health care system. Let's go through a few facts.
- My wife is uninsurable outside of a large group plan because of an easily managed (through medication) blood condition.
- For a period of two years, my wife paid some $30/day out of pocket for a medication she needed. The same medicine is 1/3 the cost in Canada. The actual cost to insurance? $100/day.
- My employer (less than 5 employees) is uninsurable (in terms of cost, over $2k/month per person for garbage coverage some 10 years ago).
- I can't hire anyone because I can't offer health insurance coverage so I outsource the jobs to India.
- Our state high risk pool offers a $7,500 deductible at $300/month with a $500k max. lifetime. There are other options...that's just the one that we considered.
I could go on and on with examples. I'm not what Obama would call the wealthiest Americans, but we get by pretty comfortably. If health care is affecting our employment and lifestyle decisions, I can't begin to imagine what it's doing to others who are less fortunate.
We have a couple of choices. We can become more like Canada or the UK and socialize it, or we can really let the free market work and get rid of the idiotic warranty/insurance system we run today. The article is right...Republicans need to step up to the plate and offer some solutions. All we hear is keeping the free-market status-quo in place in what is obviously not a free-market.
Comment Posted By hapmoorii On 4.06.2007 @ 14:08
