Originally Posted by garysher (Another example of America's shameful health care snafu)

The taxpayer is paying for your health care.

The taxpayer is paying for my dang near everything military related from my health insurance costs to my monthly pension It's part of the selling point. The military benefits. I don't see where I changed anything.

Exactly my point - but you said you opposed other people being forced to finance health care?? You didn't change anything except you changed your mind about that?


Which is another inequity - why should govt employees luxuriate in better health care than the taxpayers who finance them??

Why don't non-government workers deserve the same privileges?



Just like everyone has the freedom to buy a Lamborghini!

Thanks for the cake Madame Pompidou!

Right, but the insurance company has the freedom to deny health insurance, too.

Not under contract law they don't. Considering nearly everyone has insurance coverage, if they made a habit of not covering their legitimately contracted insureds, there would be hell to pay.

In fact, if this one woman is the best example of someone this company has nixed under these circumstances, I'd like to hear about some of the others.

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Perhaps this is one way just to test the market when buying health insurance at such a cheap rate, but with a high deductible.

When I was employed into the first year of my present job, I had to wait a year to be insured. In the meantime, I paid in cash to Mutual Of Omaha to be health-insured. I didn't have to use it, but it would saved me a lot of money if I had to. It would have kept me from going to the poorhouse.

A company I worked before that, I had to use their health insurance via Travelers because I had medical testing done on me ten months into the first year of my employment with them. The testing was not pleasant. I underwent two IVPs, and the injections I got for the procedure about burned me up. You had those, too, didn't you, FX? As I said, that was living in hell for a few minutes.

She says that wasn't deliberate.
Healthnet made it clear they would not insure her for chemotherapy - infact they cancelled coverage when she was on the treatment tgable. Healthnet pay bonuses to their employees to do that.
So what should she do now?
Sit down and say "What a shame"??

I guess so. Why should the insurance company be responsible for her "mistake". They said they would not have covered her had her application been correct. Sometimes bad things happen to good people and sometimes good people bring bad things upon themselves.
How do you prepare for cancer?

The same way you prepare for natural disasters, car accidents, and death. By purchasing insurance.
Because it's the most cost-effective way to provide healthcare for everyone - that's why the taxpayers will foot the bill for your son's healthcare, and for the military and many other things.
It's also the right thing to do.

But the only people complaining are those who already don't have insurance. Many of which STILL won't be responsible for paying for their healthcare under the plan you propose. I don't see how that's the "right thing to do".

That's a very cold, heartless way to look at it - especially as you are benefitting from exactly that form of "resource distribution" but still want to deny it to others!

There's a difference though. I paid taxes, I joined the military, I gave to society and played by the "rules" given. I doubt you'll find many people that recommend the military not have health and disability benefits.

Every other advanced western economy, and a few less advanced ones, provides universal health coverage.

Good for them.

Why is America so mean-spirited toward her own people?

Your "mean spirited" is my "accountable".