Thank You for all your Help

Julie

Bring on socialized health care, it cant be worse than the system we have.

My wife has just been accepted to a 3 year nursing school which hopefully we will get loans for if the credit market is still there, because she wants to help mothers who who have autistic kids and miss the signs because its just to difficult to go to the doctors in this messed up system, you spend more time with the administrative staff than you do seeing a Dr or Nurse…is that really medicine!

Also reform the education system so it doesnt cost $90K – $200K to train a Dr or a Nurse, when it costs that much only the wealthy or insane(my family) can afford to go into medicine. I like Obamas plan to let people pay off their loans by working in high need areas, hopefully that can help us out….

Because I will have to quit my job in 2 months just for my wife to go to nursing school in another state, and that ain't looking too pretty with 2 kids and no job lined up (Ive been trying but who hires an out of state employee in a recession!).

For those who think I have a choice, try applying for nursing school my wife was rejected from some of her less expensive, closer, first choice schools…and has spent 3 years doing the pre-requisits needed just to apply, it would take her another 12-18 months just to reapply to another school and she may not get in… its like the system is stacked up so that only the wealthy or upper middle class can become Drs or Nurses!

Anyway the whole thing needs reforming, nursing school, med school… and the whole medical system.

Bring on socialized medicine.

Make it a socialized system, yes. First off, get rid of all these profit-making insurance companies and make it one universal care. Retire all these old ass CEOs give them some money to shut them up and let's start from the ground up. I wanna feel proud to be American again because right now I don't. Because to the American government, I'm nothing more than an expendable human, someone who pays taxes to make them rich, but one of the first people they'd kill if it can save their company money. I feel jealous of other countries and I'm seriously considering going back there.

I have so many bills right now that I may as well be locked up doing time. All because I came down sick with a malady I didn't foresee. That for as much healthy food you eat or exercise you do, you can still get sick and if you're a middle class wage earner with insurance, you can still wind up with bills you can't afford.

It isn't just for me. My co-worker is in the hospital battling cancer that has spread all over her body. They probably could have caught it earlier, but the doctor who treated her melanoma years before didn't bother to keep monitoring her, probably to save money. In April she'll lose her job and her health insurance. I called Medicare – she can't get it until the 25th month after she's been accepted by social security. She can't get Medi-Cal because she's under 65 and doesn't have children under 18. Outside of a few hospitals that offer aid to uninsured individuals, I doubt they will treat her for her cancer. So basically, she's screwed and she'll most likely die, not even having enough money for her care.

I love the fact that President Obama is driving you Republicans crazy, I love it. President Bush, was driving us Dems crazy now you folks can share the pain.

Then come the politicians….to set price controls….tell the physicians and hospitals what they can charge. To compensate, the hospitals will reduce services and staff, and this will cause rationed care…..waiting lines…as it does in Great Britain, France, Canada and other populous countries. Then Government bureaucrats will start to tell the public they have to cut services so as not to raise taxes……and what should be covered….all reducing our perceived freedoms.

This cycle will continue to get worse…….you cannot remove capitalism from capitalism. Asking how much a procedure costs is important in a capitalistic society. Spending other people's money will only exacerbate the problem….as we have seen with our current insurance fiasco. Medicare and Medicaid does not pay the providers of care enough money to survive…so they charge the uninsured and the private insurance policyholders more to make up for their loses. This causes human behavior to change and we feel as though we need to get something for our high premiums being charged to us by the health insurance companies….who have virtually eliminated most of the competition through government mandates….along time ago….