Thread: Health care question

How many of your family are senior citizens and living on social security? How many of them are in nursing homes that just got severe cuts? I've got 1 living in my basement and 1 living up the street. I'm a non believer and still getting piss'der by the day.

And I do realize that they 'say' if you have an existing healthplan you won't be affected, but I don't believe it. But nursing homes in the state of Ohio have had their budget cut by 1.5 million. Oxygen isn't being paid for or wheel chair trips. My dad is offering to volunteer driving the nursing home bus so it's not out of pocket.

I'm pushing for it. I pay $900 a month in health insurance. My parents pay $180 a month just for my dad's inhaler and another 200 for the rest of the meds. Something needs to be done for people without prescription coverage.

IMO, it's a complicated situation, and how one feels about it probably depends on the insurance you have, or don't have. People who don't have insurance, or have poor insurance, are for government run healthcare. People who have good coverage, at a cost they feel is affordable are probably skeptical. I don't know one person who really believes the " if you like your current coverage you can keep ...

I wish I was as eloquent as Trinket.

Excellent post, Trinket. A single payer system does not necessarily need to be a government run system....just sayin'. I agree that our government officials are often driven by money, as are most Americans. BUT, not all. I cannot fathom how anyone with any interaction with health care now can say it's fine the way it is. I believe that as long as health care is allowed to be a business, ...

trinketbuyer wrote: IMO, it's a complicated situation, and how one feels about it probably depends on the insurance you have, or don't have. People who don't have insurance, or have poor insurance, are for government run healthcare. People who have good coverage, at a cost they feel is affordable are probably skeptical. I don't know one person who really believes the " if you like...

I'm not sure it's your responsibility, but don't we already do that for people who don't pay taxes with protective services and such? We pay a little more so they can have access as well. A health society benefits all of us. My issue has been with how the costs will get passed on, like Trinket said.

PBS and some of the cable channels, local news etc. have done a lot of pieces on other countries' systems for many years. None of them are perfect. And most of them don't have to handle the number of people that ours does, nor do they have the illegal immigrant issue.

I hear arguments about more and better healthcare breakthroughs, yet there are more in other countries than yours, more in my country than yours and you have 10 times our population. What are you basing that on? Our government has numerous agencies that conduct research, they give grants to public and private groups to do it, universities do it, non-profits do it and private corporations as...