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| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=4544 |   DanT (518) Aug 12, 2009 - 03:26 pm
| » Living in Fear
Worse than paying $20k per year for medical insurance is the constant fear that one day your insurance company that operates with complete impunity decides not to cover you for treatment or to just cancel you. Once that happens you have to find a new insurance company and they will exclude coverage for any preexisting conditions.
My sister was visiting from overseas and her daughter got very sick. She took her to the hospital and they wouldn't even look at her because she didn't have insurance. Finally, they found a doctor who would accept cash. My niece could have died from her condition, but the hospital didn't care. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=4544 | DanT (518) Aug 12, 2009 - 10:21 am
| It was intended to be more of a complaint about the current state of the US health care system than a political opinion.
If you have been fortunate enough to be healthy or have good insurance through your employer, then you wouldn't necessarily recognize the importance of this issue.
And siteseeing is rarely about gaming or hardware. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=4544 | DanT (518) Aug 11, 2009 - 12:54 pm » Edited on Aug 11, 2009 - 12:54 pm
| Maybe some of you Europeans or Aussies can jump in and tell us how your system works or in some cases doesn't work.
One of the biggest complaints you'll hear is that government health care isn't usually willing to pay for extraordinary measures if you have cancer or some other life threatening disease.
Another problem we have in this country are all the malpractice suits leveled against doctors. This drives up the cost of malpractice insurance, which is a cost passed on to the consumer. Flag this | Edit this post |
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