* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Sure, there are people for whom the $30 co-pay for various drugs is a > burden. I have no specific suggestions for how a plan should handle > that, but I recognize it as a reality. Prescription drugs can ruin a > family, financially -- I'm thankful that the insurance I had via COBRA > after being laid off from Sun Microsystems completely covered my chemo > -- I was burning through about $9000 a month, and I was on the stuff > for nine months!
$81K for chemotherapy is not what I was talking about. That is probably an expense that should be covered -- it is a large expense that you admittedly could not afford. (I say probably because there are obviously cases when it wouldn't make sense, for example, a 90 year old with several conditions that make life expectancy less than a year no matter what) I was talking about expenses that people could afford to pay (esp. if a free-market of price-conscious consumers helped lower prices), or could afford to forgo because it wasn't absolutely necessary. > We're a great, wealthy, generous country: we can figure out how to > take care of each other. We might be able to figure it out, but we won't be able to pay for it. Many people seem to think that medical care should just be given to those who need it. Perhaps we should assign a full-time personal doctor and full-time nurse to take care of everyone in the world! -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
