What is your health worth?
Is it worth selling your house and moving into an apartment?
Is it worth telling your children they’ll have to pay for their college tuitions themselves?
Is it worth selling your antiques you inherited from Great Aunt Mildred?
Is it worth selling your car and taking the bus?
Is it worth bypassing the McDonalds and Starbucks to have a sandwich and a cup of coffee at home?
Is it worth saying, "Let’s have a homemade Christmas this year"?
What are you willing to give up to pay for health insurance, even if it’s just major medical? Or to get $100 to pay to see the doctor? Granted, some people won’t need to give up any of this, but some…well, think about it if you don’t have insurance…what do you have that is really more important than your health?
It’s worth having a universal health care system so that many Americans don’t suffer and die because they couldn’t afford early diagnosis and treatment and others don’t go bankrupt because they can’t pay their medical bills.
Those of us who have good employer-provided health care coverage should not be so smug and complacent as to assume that our situations could never change. One thing we shouldn’t have to worry about for the future is not being able to take advantage of the health care that could save lives due to not being able to afford it.
two 40-inch flat screen TVs a HD DVD player and a Yellow 1977 corvette with black interior.
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not worth my freedoms!
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Its worth pushing for real health care reform.
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A doctor visit shouldn’t cost $100 if all he/she does is look at you.
By your logic, Doctors could charge $100,000 for a visit right? Can’t put a price tag on health! …as you insinuate.
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It doesn’t have a price. That being said, there are many of us out there who don’t qualify for private health care if it wasn’t work sponsored. (For example, I had childhood cancer–even though the medical community considers me cured I’m too big a liability to get private insurance).
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I’m tired of being ripped off by insurance companies, let’s try something else
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YOU DON’T HAVE TO SUFFER….
Do like everybody else does… ignore your health insurance bills. Mine has been over $250,000. for the last 5 years….i.e. gallbladder, shoulder (rotator cuff), sinus surgery, the list goes on…etc. I don’t even know what it is now, and they stopped calling. I don’t own anything (in my name), so there are no liens. So, buy now pay later, I don’t care, it doesn’t bother me one bit. IF I SHOW UP AT A HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOM….THEY have to TAKE CARE OF ME… as a humanitarian patient, that’s the law and they hoof the bill. I get good and sick and show up late at night to any hospital, I’m covered by MY OWN health insurance, try it. LITTLE SECRET FOR YA OUT THERE….My shoulder was fixed when I fell off a bench in a public place, the ambulance comes, complain of severe shoulder pain, MRI, bada bing- bada-bing next thing you know you’re in the recovery room…. wha-la, problem solved. Pass out in the street the next time you have bronchitis and have your buddy call 911, they’ll come running…. and give you amoxicillin.
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why should people lose everything just because they get sick ?
not everyone can afford insurance… that is a fact man…
Should they stop paying their mortgage ?, They should have to give up every modern mechanism they use to have a better quality of life ?
I’ve endured years of back pain, because I can’t afford the procedure and the insurance won’t cover it because it’s pre-existing….
So I should get the procedure and sell my house, and move my whole family in with my Mother in-law ?….. I rather be in pain, but thanks for the suggestion.
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This health care reform proposed by Obama sucks. If you try hard and school and become successful, you will be fine, but many people don’t want to do that. If this healthcare reform is so good, why doesn’t Obama himself hav to be on it? y dont the members of congress have to be on it? why do people from canada who hav his system of healthcare come to america to get taken care of? Why are older people put at the bottom of the waiting list? I don’t want to watch any family member die because they can’t get care because of their age. Yes ther does need to be some kind of reform, but this is just scary.
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It’s worth having a universal health care system so that many Americans don’t suffer and die because they couldn’t afford early diagnosis and treatment and others don’t go bankrupt because they can’t pay their medical bills.
Those of us who have good employer-provided health care coverage should not be so smug and complacent as to assume that our situations could never change. One thing we shouldn’t have to worry about for the future is not being able to take advantage of the health care that could save lives due to not being able to afford it.
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You seem to be confusing insurance with health. I’m healthy, because I take care of myself, and I have insurance, but I’ve never used it.
What I give up for my health is frequently junk food, and I give up some of my time to hit the gym every day, but most of all I give up that temporary joy that comes from being lazy and having a lack of discipline.
What I give up for my health insurance is frankly too much money, but I can afford it.
What annoys me is that a good deal of the extra cost in my insurance is going to help cover the losses from fat, lazy, smoking & drinking junk food junkies without insurance.
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No, as a matter of fact, I’m happy the way things are. I can’t afford medical insurance for myself or my wife, but I’m happy to pay for politicians, prisoners, military, post office, diplomats, ambassadors, FBI/CIA/SS/ etc thru taxes. Happy, happy, happy. When I was pulling down $98 a mo, in the AF they actually took out taxes so the draft dodgers in Wash. DC could get their sniffles looked at. Why don’t they pass a law that provides free $4 generics from WalMart to all politicians. And we all know how much those Chinese meds must cost if Wally make money selling at $4. Just think, if you kick in $7,900 a year avg, for insurance, you can get those green meanies pills at a discount. Feeling much better now, right.
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