Ever wonder why this isn't all over the news ????

Speaking from experience (socialized medicine), you ain't gonna like it!!

Bill

Here they are finding our they can't keep funding it and they are talking about cutting alot more than they already have. People are lining up in the emergency rooms for common colds 'cause there aren't enough doctors.

I know of several folks who have went to the Emergency Room (which would imply some sense of urgency, no?) and waited for 9-11 hours to get treated. One lady just had a bladder infection. The doc checked her out and wrote a 'script and she was out of the ER room in 3-4 minutes, she waited in the waiting room for 9 hours.

Nice.

Bill

Yeah, Obama also wants to get rid of summer break. NO! kids need that or their grade will drop from being overworked. What will happen to summer school? I don't mean to get political. But I don't want this "health care" crap.

who has the answer? health insurance is so f#$%$^& high the common self employed man cant stand to have it and if he goes to the er he's gona get a in the ass when the bill comes in.the problem is, IMO,all of it's too dam high! the insurance,er/doctor,and for sure anything the gov is involved with.the ony one's who have it made are illegal's and the "public assistance"groups.

dfree383 wrote:Problem their is people dont see or realize what it costs, they use emergency room because its "free" and faster than getting an apointment.........

i come from the land of the socialized medicine. Where i grew up there was NO problems whatsoever. the longest I ever waited was ~1hr, and could always get an appt. within a day or 2 to see the doc.

Now where i live its awful.
The emergency room is crowded but its not for the reasons of speed and ease, but in my case we (myself and my wife) and thousands of others can not get a family doctor. THis I think is the bigger problem as without a family doc you are stuck to the Emergency room or the so called "after hours" clinics....2pm to 6pm....

I have mixed feelings about it.
Where/when the hospitals are not underfunded things are good.
Ontario is a bad model in that respect, 90% of the total budget should not be paid to the office staff.

in my local area we've been seeing a few express med typ clinics and they're the shit IMO.i havent seen my family doc in 5yr's and aint missed him a dam bit.at least the clinic's will give you a shot in the ass and send you on,and dont make you wait an hour for it.the doc's all hate them too cuz it pulls folks from them.

I am on disability not because I want to be but because I have to be because otherwise I cant afford the treatments I have had to indure and I will tell yall this if it hadnt been for medicare I would have died and thats all I will say on the subject. Being on medicare was by far the best and worst thing that could have happened to me. I recently went back to work for the first time in 3 yrs. A lot of my friends are surprised at my reaction to govment healthcare reform. Affordable insurance is not the answer. Yes affordable healthcare should be available to everybody not just those that can afford insurance. I dont know the answer but someone needs to come up with a better one real soon or things are gonna get ugly. I havent heard anything on how it works but apparently whats on the table has made a lot of people angry. We just need healthcare thats affordable for everybody how can that be so hard?

Well I will say it took me 6 months to see a specialist in Canada and it took me 2 days to see one in Lafayette. It cost me $800 dollars but I save $20k-$30k a year in income tax so it is a sweet deal for me. Even my medical costs for a family of 5 in the US is about $6k a year out of pocket. The math still looks good to me.

the only insurance i could consider was 450$ a month with a 10,000$ deductable.thats a lot like not haven any looks like to me,unless it's real bad then i could'nt pay the 450$ and i'd get dropped anyway.these dam insurance crooks are in business to make money,a lot of money,and the medical folks are worse than that.i take a pill for high blood psi that cost's me 100$a month,last checkup i got ok'd for a 90 day script for them so i went to get it filled,the complete 90 day's which should been 300$,well the funny thing was it's only 150$ when you buy it that way.it was a funny thing,i was happy it was only 150$ but then i got realy pissed cuz i wanted to know why it was a "bulk discount"on this high dollar shit.think of the people that dont have 300$ to buy a 90 day script of this shit/poison so they would know it was 1/2 price that way.the medical end of this b/s is to blame for the high cost of it all BUT if it all got cut by 1/2 overnight the dam greedy ins co wouldnt give no discount.