The reality of healthcare...it will be like Japan

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Carole Santa Rosa, CA
I can't afford my health insurance anymore. In 2002, after being uninsured for many years, I managed to get myself some health insurance with Blue Shield of CA. I signed up for a high deductible plan ($2400) and also set up a Health Savings Account to put money aside income tax free to pay for what my insurance wouldn’t cover. Naively (and in hindsight likely stupidly) I shared with Blue Shield that a 2.9 cm fibroid was found in my uterus in 2000. (Do you know how small that is?) I have had NO problems whatsoever and this is quite common/normal for many woman. Anyway, Blue Shield refused to insure me at their Tier 1 rate and put me at Tier 3, 56.25% above the Tier 1 rates. In 2002 this didn’t seem so bad it was $69 a month. Well, I have yet to meet my deductible in any year since I have had the insurance. That means I have paid for EVERYTHING out of my own pocket. Blue Shield has continued to jack up their rates on me once or twice a year now to where I am now paying $411 a month for exactly the same insurance. That is a TRULY UNBELIEVABLE increase of about 600% from what I was paying in 2002. My income has not increased 600%!!! I don’t believe health insurance costs have increased 600% in that time either. I am now spending $411 a month on insurance and putting $250 month into a Health Savings Account to pay for what my insurance doesn’t cover. That’s over $660 a month to insure an extremely healthy 42 year old. It is now at the point this outlay is seriously hurting me and I have to find some other option for myself. (Moving to Canada is looking appealing!) It is unconscionable to me that we have an ENTIRE industry that has to make a buck on the care provided to a patient by a practitioner. This should not be a profit making venture!!! We do not need a distributor/middle man for this transaction. I have two clients who just turned 65 and who are quite excited they now have health insurance. Well, what is someone at my age supposed to do for the next 25 years? I have another friend who just got sick with cancer and had catastrophic medical insurance. The insurance company told him cancer wasn’t a catastrophe and they wouldn’t cover his treatment. He had just missed the deadline for filing for Medicare. Please, I encourage you to support reform that can help self-employed individuals like myself have affordable health insurance.
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in this country any person that recieves their insurance from their employer really has no insurance. all you have is an employee benifit. any illness that causes you not to be able to work puts you in the street with no insurance and no possibility of buying private insurance even if you have the money because you will be rejected because of a preexisting condition..
 
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Britain is providing us with stories of all the thousands of babies born outside the hospitals. In spite of tripling funding for the health care system they still don't have beds enough.. and Sarah Palin is right on regarding Obama death panels as far as I'm concerned... the stories about how the doctors just declare somebody terminal and off them in the hospitals are for real...

Sarah Palin, crucified right before our eyes.. they burned her church and she had 13 investigations from the Left, all of which she had to defend with her own attorneys and her own money... while trying to serve as the Governor of Alaska... she's a church lady you bastards, get over it already... what a bunch of swine, trampling all over her... she still gets her rallying cry out there occasionally...
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Yeah I have been reading all these stories from the US concerning the UK jeez I thought it was f*ckin Albania they were talking about I hardly recognized my own country.
They burnt her church! Many years ago in New England they would have burnt her at the stake.
 
I don't know what the government can do anymore to reform health care... our health care system here has had communists aiming their shotguns at it for so many decades.. I think they have the idea that commies are going to take it over so might as well loot all they can before that happens... and keep jacking the costs up so the public sector can never afford to put everybody on the health care dole without going bankrupt almost immediately...

Obama is not likely to get anything done at all... the insurance companies are going to get their little clauses in everywhere and the actual effect will be nullified entirely.. they own more Democrat politicians than Republicans, likely... currently Obama's opponents are offering him some face saving gestures at best..
 
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