What’s the worst thing about a bus load of lawyers going off a cliff?
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One empty seat!

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I hope you made up time, OMG. Have a great day!

Sorry to hear about your daughter’s ear. My 2nd son was born with an extra thumb. Had it removed at his first b’day. In hindsight, probably should have left it on. Can you imagine the junk balls he could throw as a pitcher with an extra thumb? hehehehehehehe.

Re: denial of coverages…. it is 100% true Metro that Medicare has a much higher rate of decline than any major private provider out there. If you think about it, if you are giving over the obligation to pay for services that you consume, then that party that is paying must have some say over what they are paying for. Correct? And, if you really want to know the differences in medical care from the US to Canada or UK, compare the number of MRI machines in ONE state in the US to ALL of Canada or UK. Compare the waiting times for getting MRI’s or CAT Scans or seeing a specialist. It’s not even close. The real solution to improving access, reducing costs, and improving quality for ANY product or service is the free market. Healthcare included. There is no question about that. The problem, quite frankly, is the left’s addiction to the fantasy that a centralized and controlling government is the solution to any problem. Clearly it is not. Further, almost every single medical innovation that has been developed on planet earth in the last 100 years has been done by Americans in our free market system. The profit motive is the single greatest motive for innovation and efficiency there can be. And in a free market system, they are better able to accomodate and absorb those times when services cannot be paid for. This is not to say that we should abandon the poorest and neediest among us, but there are much better ways to accomodate these needs without centralizing the control in politicians and bureaucrats greedy hands.

I have to run. Already running late and behind.

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No medical bills for some Colo. shooting victims

By COLLEEN SLEVIN and KRISTEN WYATT
Associated Press
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DENVER (AP) — Some of the victims fighting for their lives after being wounded in the movie-theater shooting rampage may face another challenge when they get out of the hospital: enormous medical bills without the benefit of health insurance.

Members of the public, along with Warner Bros., the studio that released the Batman movie “The Dark Knight Rises,” have contributed nearly $2 million to help victims, though it’s not clear how much of that will cover medical expenses. One family is raising money on its own online.

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Speaking of health (how about that clever segue?) I don’t know that there is NO WAY we can’t have a universal plan. Other countries do it. It doesn’t mean that government takes over our health care, they take over the payments. The question is, would the government, as payor, be more restrictive or more cubersome than private insurance. Maybe, maybe not. With government, we can vote the bastards out of office. With private insurance companies we just have to go along with what they want or change insurance companies. That is certainly not efficient, at least for the insured. As far as the government telling us what treatment we can get or what medications we can receive, the insurance companies have been doing that for years. Ask someone who had to hire a lawyer and threaten a lawsuit to get coverage for surgery for a child when the insurance company reneged after the fact and decided that the surgery was cosmetic. My daughter was born with only part of an ear. The surgeon did just enough surgery to give her enough ear to hold up a pair of glasses. Nothing drastic. Two weeks after the surgery the insurance company calls me and tells me they have now decided that it was cosmetic surgery and it wasn’t covered. They were dumping the whole $2,000 bill back in my lap. I talked to everyone at the insurance company who would come to the phone. I reminded them that they had OKed the surgery. No movement. Now $2000 wasn’t out of my reach, but by then I was REALLY angry. My first impulse was to go to the insurance headquarters and find the highest official there and beat the living bejesus out of him. (I was much younger then). But, instead I contacted a lawyer and the whole matter was settled after one letter from the lawyer. But, the damn lawyer cost me almost as much as the surgery.

Well, as you say, it is a topic for debate. I would like to do more research on countries like Canada, UK, and others. Even European and Central American countries seem to have excellent health care that is less expensive than the US. I would like more reliable information on why that is. A couple of years ago, I was on a Rhine River cruise in the Netherlands and Belgium and developed an infected foot. Being a Type II diabetic, such an infection can be quite serious. A member of the ship crew took me to the ER in Arnhem. There they examined me, did a scan of the entire leg to rule out Deep Vein Thrombosis, (DVT) bandaged the wound, checked all my other vital signs and prescribed an antibiotic for me. Being out of the country, my Medicare insurance didn’t cover me. I paid a total of less than $400 for that visit. Venture a guess as to what it would cost in the US. I would guess about 10x that. And the facilities at Arnhem were equal to any in this country. I’m just sayin’ . . . just maybe there’s a better way.

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