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From:	RC Dana (206.80.12.3)
Subject:	Thank you. I have used those links - More ranting
Date:	May 19, 2009 at 8:30 am PST

In Reply to: Not sure yet what the final plan will be.....but..... posted by Millie on May 15, 2009 at 9:59 pm:

and they helped a lot in reducing the price of the two non-generic drugs I must take for the rest of my life. I also signed up to do a clinical trial on a medication for Type 2 diabetes (one where you get a shot of something once a week) but don't know if I qualify. It sounds like a good drug for it but they have to let me know if everything is compatible. Hopefully, this will help financially for a while.

I agree totally, let's tear down this industry and re-do it completely. No one in America should have to sweat this stuff. We need it so people don't have to put healthy last in their budgets. It would be more economical in the long run to have a healthy populace, not to mention the humanitarian gains. Why can't our country look at those countries where care giving is succeeding and imitate them?

This month the hospital didn't want to take payments of $40 per month (what I can afford) on my dd's $3000 bill so its going to collections. The Blue Sh***insurance company won't pay anything before its $5000 deductible is met. Last year, I even tried to upgrade our coverage to have a $40 co-pay on doctor's visits (now her plan's doctor charges $110 per visit)(there are so-called 3 free exams, which are only physicals and if they should find something wrong with the patient, BlueSh will not pay for that visit!), but they said that since she sprained her ankle badly that year she had a "pre-exising condition" so we didn't qualify to upgrade even if I paid a higher premium. Would someone tell me how that's a pre-exisitng condition!! I'm through arguing with these heartless you-know-whats.

In CA you feel you need hospitaliztion coverage if you can afford it at all, because the county hospitals (where the uninsured must go unless its a dire emergency) 1) can be a long distance from where one lives, (2) often boast really great emergency facilites but famously bad hospital stay facilities (County General in LA has huge cracks in walls, dirty floors, dirty and outdated air vents, etc.), (3) have LONG wait times (people have died waiting for real) and there are many other problems with them.

It still it costs me$65 per month for absolutely nothing until I meet the deductible. Since she had a minor accident requiring a CAT scan this year, we've met the $3000 deductible so I am afraid to cancel this horrible insurance before next year. I really hate the insurance companies, too, because they obviously collude on the prices.

CA has a Healthy Families plan, which covers almost anything including dental work for a maximum of $15 per month, but I make like $200 too much per year to qualify now.

And of course, I am bascially uninsurable. Even if I was insurable, our monthly premium for a lousy plan like my daughter has would be about $400-$500 per month based on where we live and my age. Isn't redlining illegal??!!

I'd gladly pay more TAXES for us ALL to have some medical insurance that covers regular doctor visits, drugs, etc. as well as hospitalization. We shouldn't have to sweat this at all. It shouldn't come out of our pockets, like now, but just tax us fairly and give us decent healthcare.

Enough ranting. Sorry. Where's the rest of the apple butter?

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