Most people love their health care plan, right up until they really need it and find they’re particular problem (1) isn’t covered (or causes them to lose their coverage), (2) is a pre-existing condition, (3) is subject to lifetime limits on what insurance will pay, (4) their doctors diagnosis and proposed treatment is rejected by some “bureaucrat” at an insurance company or (5) all of the above. Their employers are just plain unhappy, period, with health insurance companies.
That’s when the rubber meets the road, as they say. So, please call your Congressional Representatives and tell them to support the reintroduction of the public option into negotiations on health care reform:
Congressional Switchboard: (202) 224-3121
So, I’m having lunch today with some relatives of my son, and a guy who was raised in 1950’s Brooklyn tells me that Gil Hodges and Jay Silverheels used to live next door to each other in his neighborhood. I thought that was pretty funny, considering that I always picture Tonto on a horse in the Old West. So, he tells me that the kids always used to put their hands up flat and say ‘How’ and that Silverheels would indulge them by responding, “How, ke-mo sah-bee.”
Except, the period this all would have happened, roughly 1956-1958, Jay Silverheels was making movies and television shows in Hollywood. Did he really live in Brooklyn? Was this the strangest made up story ever told? Was there some guy who looked just like Tonto and said he was Mr. Silverheels? Inquiring minds want to know.
My Congressman is Peter Roskam (R) who succeeded to Henry Hyde’s seat, thanks to Rahm Emanuel. (Yes, that Henry Hyde!) I won’t waste my breath.
My Senators are Dick Durbin, whose lips are permanently affixed to Obama’s ass and Roland “Tombstone” Burris who vowed to filibuster any bill that didn’t have a public option and then went back on his word.
I hope someone on this blog has politicians that listen to their constituents, but I don’t.
Greatest Health Care in the World?
Sure – that’s what Gov. Bob McDonell just said in the republican response to the SOTU.
Check the amazing graphic in the recent NGM blogpost (note, the US is so out of scale with other nations that you must click on the enlarge link to see it.
For an individual, the financial choice usually comes down to one of two: Either spend a little payday loans every year to stay healthy and eat well, or spend a LOT more down the road recuperating from the maladies that are sure to appear after ignoring your health. One of the most crucial issues facing American today is importance of health insurance for the American citizens. Yet there are million Americans who are under-insured or who do not have any health insurance coverage at all. The American public is aging, the baby boomers are reaching their senior years and according to actuarial insurance statistics most individuals begin to contract major illnesses or disabilities from the age of 50 onward. These individuals cannot afford to be without health insurance. This is especially tragic since most of these diseases are highly preventable through preventive healthcare.