Forum Post: Heath Insurance Carriers are killing America.
Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 17, 2011, 3:50 p.m. EST by vhall
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Our country cannot continue to give trillions of dollars a year to Insurance Carriers and barely enough back to cover drugs. An average person spends 300.00 per month (per person), on a 500.00 deductible plan . You want me to do the math………..? 300,000,000 million live in our country, times 300 per month = 90,000,000,000 billion, times 12 months = 1,080,000,000,000.…….is that’s a trillion? Come on wake up America, are we asleep or just plain stupid. That money would help cover the national debt. Believe me that number is not correct because most are paying much more than that, my costs alone for me only are 657.00 per month and I am a retired State Worker………..Hey, I served the public for 30 years to hand over my retirement check to the insurance companies. While employed I paid 100,00 while the State paid 500 for their share for one worker.
Medicare NOT free, fixed income senior citizens have out of pocket and monthly premiums to cover.
The problem is there are those that get free health care and don’t pay a dime for anything ….. Who’s getting FREE HEALTH CARE ARE, The Military, Congress, Federal Workers and the very poor on social programs. I hope I got everyone.
Your tax dollars at work……….I overheard a 49 year old retired sailor brag about all the benefits he was getting and he was working on his 4th retirement pension, one from the military, two from civil service and hopefully he bragged if Social Security is still around he will collect 4 pensions. But he proudly boasted (I earned them because I served my country). Do we honestly want them to live free while we slave to make ends meet? WAKE UP………………….49 years old living free off your tax dollars. We are all serving this country and we all deserve to live free.
The POINT is............we need a national health care system.
We are all addicted to the insurance industry. Kudos to practitioners--- its tough to be a doctor in the US today.
Insurance companies are BIG Business and should posted along with the other big businesses I have seen in here. Mostly they are targeting the big store chains and banks. They don't come close to what the Insurance Industry is pulling in. Bonuses are outrages to CEO's in these companies..I think it was Aetna that gave several top CEO's millions of dollars for bonuses in one year.................The advertisement for these companies are outrages for what they spend. I believe a fraction is actually paid out on heath care cost. Also; they charge the doctors with huge malpractice insurance rates and run them out of business because the doctors cannot pay 250,000 a year for a small practice to have a ridicules insurance policy.
One OB-GYN lost her small business because she could not deliver more than 100 babies a year without her malpractice insurance going up or the threat of losing it. At that time it was 250,000 per year. Her biggest fear was that number 101 would deliver before her year was up unexpectedly and she would lose her insurance and have close her business and possibly get a fine for the extra baby delivery.
How’s that for who’s running the county?
We do have some very smart doctors fighting back, in our state they have a flat fee for all the care you need except hospitalization and drugs. You pay about 95 per month and can see a doctor anytime you are sick. No insurance billing and no hassles. I have heard that when you go, you get right in and they manage the patient load without any problems.
You go Doctors……….we need you, your smarter than the insurance companies and will get this fixed without any help from those who choose to not listen. Until they can’t find a doctor and still they blame that on you…………Shame on them.
Health care industry is addicted to Insurance payments-- even if its Medicare. Yes, its getting more expensive, so what do we do? We buy more insurance! HA.
INSURANCE IS MERELY GAMBLING. Ever go to a healthcare provider with no insurance? You will pay thru the nose using standards only wrought by insurance companies... and a LitigiousSociety. Americans need to grow up.
SO? Get off the goingtomydoctorbecauseIhaveasniffle game. Take a pill just-because. Demand.A.Prescription.Because.I.Saw.A.TV.ad.
IGNORE the ads for drugs on TV. Save for a medical emergency. Get off the Addiction.to.Insurance. EXERCISE.
This is the ignorance of Americans…………You have no clue what’s going on until your apart of it. So go become a doctor then work with the insurance companies and get educated.
I am apart of it.
You are right. You are a part of it, I am sorry for the comment.
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It's unlikely to be possible. He's pulling your leg.
20 years for a military pension; 10 years to vest in a public pension; another 10....he started to work at age 9?? It just does not work.
They can pay something, anything it's got to stop.
Leave the military out...the retirement is lousy if you make it that long, and the pay is a joke for enlisted. If he made to retirement, good for him...he earned it...