hellomynameis
09-14-2009, 09:51 AM
A guy at work here now owes over $3000 dollars as of today to all these doctors for the original doctors mistake
It is YOUR responsibility to know what doctors are in network. It is your co-workers fault that he didn't check with his insurance company first.
My old job didn't offer it so I was without for over 3 years. If there was a reasonable option I would have gotten it.
What is unreasonable about Medicaid? MN has an excellent Medicaid program. You want federal provided healthcare but forgo state provided healthcare that would have been almost the exact same thing?
right after i lost my health care cause i got laid off, i had a choice, pay close to 700 a month for health care or go with none at all.
well i had a kidney stone a few weeks later, guess what, worst pain in my life so i went to the hospital, i could barely move, now i have a 6000 dollar medical bill hanging over my head, and still no job.
No, you had a choice to COBRA your existing benefits, find your own health insurance, or go without.
All clinics and hospitals in MN HAVE TO provide you with options for a budget plan, charity care, or help you apply for Medicaid. Make use of the ALREADY EXISTING SERVICES.
Is anyone convinced that Obama will allow illegal's to get access to healthcare[...]
There is already a federally funded program to take care of hospital visits. It's called Medicare Trailblazers. However, more to your exact words about "access", anyone can get access to healthcare, it's called self pay. There isn't a single person in this country who can't get seen by a doctor, be it dire need of medical attention due to a severed limb or a seasonal cold. The question is affordability and who is going to pay. For me, I pay the first $500 plus a $20 co-pay plus $120.22 every two weeks in premiums, plus $480.93 every two weeks in employer contribution. For viridionplague, he pays all costs himself, which probably end ups being cheaper overall so long as he doesn't have any long inpatient visits.
I look at healthcare as a place where most people have been allowed to be totally ignorant and get away with it. People have been insulated from the cost for so long that they feel entitled to not having to shell out a dime for their healthcare. If people had been paying out of pocket on high deductable plans for the past 20 years chances are most doctors offices would be doing whatever they could to offer low dollar services. In fact, this is exactly what the Minute Clinics of the world are attempting to do.
MN has a pretty good model for a government run healthcare system and this system adopted country wide wouldn't be terrible, however expect to pay for it. I am angry about having to pay for it at the state level and I do not want to pay for it at the federal level.
When it comes down to it, for all people healthcare is available, it's just not free. We have to decide, as a country, whether some basic level of healthcare is a privilege or a right.
It is YOUR responsibility to know what doctors are in network. It is your co-workers fault that he didn't check with his insurance company first.
My old job didn't offer it so I was without for over 3 years. If there was a reasonable option I would have gotten it.
What is unreasonable about Medicaid? MN has an excellent Medicaid program. You want federal provided healthcare but forgo state provided healthcare that would have been almost the exact same thing?
right after i lost my health care cause i got laid off, i had a choice, pay close to 700 a month for health care or go with none at all.
well i had a kidney stone a few weeks later, guess what, worst pain in my life so i went to the hospital, i could barely move, now i have a 6000 dollar medical bill hanging over my head, and still no job.
No, you had a choice to COBRA your existing benefits, find your own health insurance, or go without.
All clinics and hospitals in MN HAVE TO provide you with options for a budget plan, charity care, or help you apply for Medicaid. Make use of the ALREADY EXISTING SERVICES.
Is anyone convinced that Obama will allow illegal's to get access to healthcare[...]
There is already a federally funded program to take care of hospital visits. It's called Medicare Trailblazers. However, more to your exact words about "access", anyone can get access to healthcare, it's called self pay. There isn't a single person in this country who can't get seen by a doctor, be it dire need of medical attention due to a severed limb or a seasonal cold. The question is affordability and who is going to pay. For me, I pay the first $500 plus a $20 co-pay plus $120.22 every two weeks in premiums, plus $480.93 every two weeks in employer contribution. For viridionplague, he pays all costs himself, which probably end ups being cheaper overall so long as he doesn't have any long inpatient visits.
I look at healthcare as a place where most people have been allowed to be totally ignorant and get away with it. People have been insulated from the cost for so long that they feel entitled to not having to shell out a dime for their healthcare. If people had been paying out of pocket on high deductable plans for the past 20 years chances are most doctors offices would be doing whatever they could to offer low dollar services. In fact, this is exactly what the Minute Clinics of the world are attempting to do.
MN has a pretty good model for a government run healthcare system and this system adopted country wide wouldn't be terrible, however expect to pay for it. I am angry about having to pay for it at the state level and I do not want to pay for it at the federal level.
When it comes down to it, for all people healthcare is available, it's just not free. We have to decide, as a country, whether some basic level of healthcare is a privilege or a right.