asking Al Gore to run in 2008!
Reasonable health insurance coverage.
Posted August 14th, 2008 by butterfly
I canceled my health and major medical today in order to be able to afford the minor necessities of life.
I've paid over a thousand dollars in premiums so far this year for just a check up and 2 months of cholesterol lowering drugs. It's kind of out of my range of affordability. Of course I still owe a $98 deductable too.
Is it just me or is it unethical for people to be making money off of my chances of good or ill health? Especially when I know that when I stop paying more than I cost I will be conveniently dropped.
Be part of the Draft Gore '08 campaign!
Health Ins.
I am a 50+ year old single mom of 5. I haven't had health ins. since my husband died 5 years ago. No mamograms, no colonoscopy, no medications, no check ups. Lord help me if I get sick!!! My kids have state insurance because of their dad. We need universal health care now!!! It is a sad state of affairs when we send billions of dollars to Georgia, (RUS) not in the US, and can't give our own citizens basic health care. Don't even get me started on the war.......
Good question
At one time nearly all hospitals and health insurance companies (ie. BlueCross/BlueShield) were non-profits by law.
The explosion in health care costs in the US is not due to --as conservatives would have you believe-- the costs of malpractice claims or "frivolous" lawsuits, but rather can be blamed on the conversion of health care to a for-profit marketplace.
Thom Hartmann points this out often on his radio show and in his books, and Michael Moore also explains it in "Sicko." The so-called "free market" is not always the answer, and our disastrous "experiment" with a for-profit health care marketplace proves it.
Here's a great blog entry from DailyKos about the ethical/moral choices forced upon us by the unethical system we've allowed ourselves to become subject to:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/22/152850/396/465/500910