Comments on: Cap & Tax—CALL NOW http://shining-city.net/blog/?p=831 For Christ, For Truth, For Liberty Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:04:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jennifer O'Hara http://shining-city.net/blog/?p=831&cpage=1#comment-3723 Jennifer O'Hara Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:15:39 +0000 http://shining-city.net/blog/?p=831#comment-3723 It is remarkable how happy doctors & hospitals are to WORK with people who have trouble paying. I ran into the same thing w/my surgery several years ago (when my health insurance decided to deny the claim after sending me 3 written approvals prior to surgery). Thank God the hospital was willing to work out a payment plan. Furthermore, one reason healthcare & insurance is SO expensive is that the gov't got involved in the first place. Those who can pay or who do have insurance are footing the bill for the poor, the indigent, the lazy, etc. Obviously, bad things happen to people of all types, and not everyone is lazy, but...you get my drift. The other reason is the IDIOTS who go to the ER for every case of the sniffles and every stubbed toe. It's absurd. Someone made a great point today: If we can get gov't employees to admit that they and their families won't have to be on this plan and won't be signing up for it, it is OVER for this plan (this time around). So we need to start tailing our Congresscreatures with video cameras and ask that question. It is remarkable how happy doctors & hospitals are to WORK with people who have trouble paying. I ran into the same thing w/my surgery several years ago (when my health insurance decided to deny the claim after sending me 3 written approvals prior to surgery). Thank God the hospital was willing to work out a payment plan.

Furthermore, one reason healthcare & insurance is SO expensive is that the gov’t got involved in the first place. Those who can pay or who do have insurance are footing the bill for the poor, the indigent, the lazy, etc. Obviously, bad things happen to people of all types, and not everyone is lazy, but…you get my drift.

The other reason is the IDIOTS who go to the ER for every case of the sniffles and every stubbed toe. It’s absurd.

Someone made a great point today: If we can get gov’t employees to admit that they and their families won’t have to be on this plan and won’t be signing up for it, it is OVER for this plan (this time around). So we need to start tailing our Congresscreatures with video cameras and ask that question.

]]> By: Cassandra http://shining-city.net/blog/?p=831&cpage=1#comment-3722 Cassandra Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:38:19 +0000 http://shining-city.net/blog/?p=831#comment-3722 Did you hear about how Obama said that he wouldn't use the government provided health care if his wife or children were seriously ill? But I'm supposed to give up my health insurance and let my children suffer if I can't afford an expensive procedure? Who is this helping? The thing about the system that we have now is that poor people get sliding scale fees and are able to finance their procedures. It's just not what people want to spend their money on. When I didn't have health insurance --well I don't have insurance now, I have a stipend and will be getting insurance through my employer next month-- I went to go to the ER at my FIL's urging --he works for the ER and is only truly happy if one of his relatives is at death's door--. As it turned out I had the flu and was fine. I still had to pay that astronomical bill though. We had a lot of other expenses come up at that time. I talked to the financing dept. and I have been making monthly payments for a year. I just made the last one the other day. Another time when I was in my late teens, I cut my finger late at night and needed stitches. After talking with the hospital to work out a payment plan they went ahead and covered the bill out of a charity fund that they have. And then there is the state funded health care that is available to poor people --if the families who already have health insurance don't abuse it--. The only thing that needs to be reformed about our health care system is the sense of entitlement people seem to think that they have to it and their unwillingness to pay for what is enabling them to go on living. Did you hear about how Obama said that he wouldn’t use the government provided health care if his wife or children were seriously ill? But I’m supposed to give up my health insurance and let my children suffer if I can’t afford an expensive procedure? Who is this helping? The thing about the system that we have now is that poor people get sliding scale fees and are able to finance their procedures. It’s just not what people want to spend their money on. When I didn’t have health insurance –well I don’t have insurance now, I have a stipend and will be getting insurance through my employer next month– I went to go to the ER at my FIL’s urging –he works for the ER and is only truly happy if one of his relatives is at death’s door–. As it turned out I had the flu and was fine. I still had to pay that astronomical bill though. We had a lot of other expenses come up at that time. I talked to the financing dept. and I have been making monthly payments for a year. I just made the last one the other day. Another time when I was in my late teens, I cut my finger late at night and needed stitches. After talking with the hospital to work out a payment plan they went ahead and covered the bill out of a charity fund that they have. And then there is the state funded health care that is available to poor people –if the families who already have health insurance don’t abuse it–. The only thing that needs to be reformed about our health care system is the sense of entitlement people seem to think that they have to it and their unwillingness to pay for what is enabling them to go on living.

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