Wow Casey you're pretty confident of your health and coverage.
Here is something I see all the time working at one of the largest
cancer research institutions in the world.
Suppose you get cancer. Your insurance will probably cover a first
round of standard treatment. What if that doesn't work? Or, what if
your doctors (you'll have several) think your best option is something
the insurance companies consider "experimental" (they try to consider
bunches of typical treatments "experimental" even though they have
been standard treatment for years). This "experimental" treatment gets
paid by you.
At my employer, patients need to come to their first appointment with
two things: information on their past treatment and six figures of cash.
Yes, this is heartbraking. I suppose all the people against reforming
healthcare without $100,000+ cash sitting within easy reach would be
good citizens and let themselves die.
Not me, but I at least respect their dedication.
I'm driving the Miata today. It makes all the pediatric patients smile.
Bret
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On Sep 25, 2009, at 5:59 AM, Casey Wheeler <[email protected]>
wrote:
Jim is absolutly correct and probably makes the point better than I
did. Most people have health conditions due to their own choices.
Furthermore, people without ins. Don't have ins. by their own doing.
The people that "need" social healthcare are the people who are most
apathetic. We all have the freedom and choice to take this path or
another. If people make better choices, life is better/easier. Our
society has become so.... So lazy, pathetic, apathtic... Something,
I can't find the right description... Take some personal
responsibility and handle your business.
Casey
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On Sep 25, 2009, at 8:18 AM, [email protected] wrote:
I decided I must weigh in on this one after all. I do work at the
largest hospital in my immediate area, which just happens to be the
only for profit hospital in southern Arizona. My observations are
first hand, not something I've seen on TV or read about.
I don't honestly believe we have a 'healthcare' crisis. I believe
that we do have a 'wellness' crisis. More accurately, a lack of
wellness crisis. The vast majority of the patients I see in the
healthcare system are sick due to their own lifestyle choices. We
have an entire generation of citizens who think that they are owed
everything: police protection, fire protection, healthcare, etc.
Personal responsibility is way undervalued by our current culture.
Numerous hospitalizations could be avoided entirely by simply
getting an annual physical exam where the physician has the
opportunity to catch the signals of a possible or impending issue
and take preemptive measures.
'You are what you eat' is a manta of any good cardiac rehab
program. However, if adopted as a normal part of one's life, it
could have been what keep you out of cardiac care in the first place.
I don't think I need to point out the shift to a sedentary
lifestyle that the vast majority of people have adopted.
Practicing wellness is hard work. Most people would much prefer to
ignore good lifestyle choices and then push the responsibility for
their well being off onto someone else.
Jim in Tucson
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