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Huey » 02 Jan 2014 12:58 pm » wrote:
There were people not like you who carried major medical, catestrophic and long term care with but paid out of pocket for routine check ups and tests. They CHOSE to do so and used the money saved on premiums for their retirement, their business or whatever they wanted to use it for. A good many of those people no longer have that choice and are paying hundreds, and in some cases, thousands of dollars more in premium costs.

So if they did show up at the emergency room they were covered.

Here's what's actually so, in the adult world, where rocks are just hard and water is just wet, and all the posing and partisanship and crybabying are for naught:

This nation faces an EXISTENTIAL THREAT from its current medical care/medical insurance/medical payment paradigm. The system is so incredibly rife with ineffeicencies and especially with parasticial gorging by the wall street machine that it is literally a threat to the nation's survival.

Medical care is closing in on one fifth of our economy, and will CERTAINLY grow in coming years with the agin of the baby boomers unless costs are brought into the real world and out of the wall street world.

The only way this nation is going to get costs under control is to get wall street out of it. The very notion of people speculating on wellness is the oppositie of ANY brand of true conservatism. No conservative - especially no fiscal conservative - would ever defend the status quo, but would urgently and adamantly object to it.