Re: Can't get insurance because of PCOS, help!
From: Genny (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 14 Jun 2002 10:38:02 -0500
My question is: how high are taxes in Australia and other countries with
socialized medicine? How much do people pay for the "free" coverage? I'll
bet it's a lot.
The bottom line is when you are receiving something of value that you get
free or at a discount, someone else is forced to make up the difference.
There is no free lunch. If you don't pay, someone else has to pick up the
tab. I don't think this is fair. People don't have the choice to opt out
of such programs.
Taxes here in the US are already strangling the economy. You are right when
you say we don't have freedom in health care in the US. That is because we
have a rotten mix of government programs coupled with insurance mandates,
monopolies and dwindling insurance companies.
My insurance costs me about $375 a month too. But I would rather pay that
than ask my government to tax my fellow citizens. I am responsible for
myself, just as every other adult on this planet should be.
Genny
>
>Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 19:55:42 -0500 (CDT)
>From: anonymous@obgyn.net (Sonnet)
>To: anonymous@obgyn.net
>Subject: Re: Can't get insurance because of PCOS, help!
>Message-ID: <anonymous@obgyn.net>
>
>OMG. I know we've discussed this before but seriously - don't knock
>socialized medicine until you've lived with it! I lived with glorious,
>wonderful socialized medicine for 2 years and had the best medical
>treatment. I could see any doctor I chose, right away. NO waits. More
>choices BY FAR than I would have here under some crummy insurance plan.
>And I paid *nothing* for each doctor visit and $3 for each prescription.
>The only thing I ever paid for in those years was about $40 per
>ultrasound, a percentage plan. I had two in two years.
>
>Here in the US, I'd like to point out that my medical coverage costs us
>$400 a MONTH, limits who I can see, denies me coverage of life saving
>drugs and treatment, and makes me do hours of paperwork.
>
>Hrm. Tough choice.
>
>I know it depends on where you live (and I hear that in many European
>countries the waits are longer) but it makes you look silly to say
>something is a nightmare when you've obviously not experienced it. Also
>doubly silly-sounding to equate our messed up disaster of a health care
>system with "freedom." Nothing could be farther from the truth!
>Hopefully however, things will start to change over the next few years.
>Everyone seems to be in agreement that it's now so bad that it has to be
>radically changed, so I'm holding out for that!
>
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