Comments on: Stupid Stitches…

By: Person

Person — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:51:08 +0000

I totally misread the title of this blog. HAHAHA!

By: JimmyDaGeek

JimmyDaGeek — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:08:50 +0000

All these kool-aid drinkers are using your unfortunate episode as an excuse to push for the disastrous Obama/Pelosi/Ried healthcare. We need to fix the healthcare system, not destroy it. Medical care is not a right, unless you want to pay for it.

The problem does not lie with the insurance but with the medical company. I have run into the same problem. You can have X-rays taken by an in-network company, but read by an out-network doctor, for which you have no control over. So the X-rays are covered, but the reading does not.

By: x

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:54:29 +0000

well i think the main problem is again with with not only the people but the system also.It is the duty of Govt. to handle it.well $776 is very very high rate here in my country it would be hardly $5 ha ha ha welcome to india sir.

By: Harm

Harm — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:17:17 +0000

Ron, how about the people who die in the U.S.
because they CAN’T AFFORD TREATMENT? Oh, yeah,
in the U.S., everybody can get treatment even
though they can’t pay for it. HAH! In the words of
Inspector Clouseau, “Not anymore”….
Talk to the uninsured people who have been denied
cancer treatment until they produced a credit card.
(Wall St. Journal)
And btw, most of western Europe has well functioning
socialized medicine systems.

By: BG

BG — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:47:36 +0000

#23 Ron) Lets see, every other modern nation on this planet has some form of Universal Healthcare. And as you can see from posters from outside the US, they are doing just fine, actually better than us. Brendon (#5) summarized it perfectly.

Where is the place you can go bankrupt for medical reasons: only in the USA!

Where is the place where your medical costs are covered, only if it is ‘profitable’: only in the USA!

Where is the only place where you can’t get access to healthcare if your poor: only in the USA! (and other third-world countries like the USA).

And your comment about ‘taxpayers’ subsidizing nd#22 costs: you realize that he _is_ a taxpayer. The beauty of their system is that everyone pays in, unlike the USA…

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:07:25 +0000

@BG #4
“How so? I really want someone to explain to me how ‘ObamaCare’ (whatever that is), would someone magically lead to long lines (waits) to see a doctor?”

Quite simple really. Remember that Obamacare was never about healthcare, but about control. Why else would 15 million still be uninsured under it?

Everywhere socialized medicine (aka Obamacare) has been tried, it has been a dismal failure. Witness TennCare, the Massachusetts debacle, Canadian medicine (I had a friend die while waiting for breast cancer surgery), the English NIH refusing to allow certain medicines — even if you paid for 100 percent of them.

That’s how.

Oh and nd#22 – it may have cost YOU $10 – $50 but that doesn’t mean the taxpayers didn’t subsidize the rest of any other potential charges.

By: nd

nd — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:42:45 +0000

$776 for few stiches?? There is something seriously wrong in US healthcare system. In my country (I am not from US) this would cost (in a very good hospital) $50 maximum, otherwise just $10.

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:08:42 +0000

A good way to get around the high cost of “minor care” is to tell them that you have no insurance. I have a friend who’s daughter had no insurance by being out of school and got a huge splinter in her foot. She had to go to the emergency room to have it removed. The cost of course was astronomical but because she had no insurance and paid cash she paid less that a fourth of what she owed. I believe that they also cut the cost of the doctor out completely.

By: John

John — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:14:28 +0000

I guess you just made a good arguement for single payer insurance. One of the reasons our medical care is so high in this country is that we spend about 18% on adminstrative costs, versus 3% in single payer countries.

By: BG

BG — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:48:21 +0000

#14 Stacey) I live in TX currently (have lived in two other states previously), and I can tell you the only things bigger in Texas are: medical costs, homeowners insurance costs, university costs, car insurance costs, title insurance costs. The only thing TX has going for it is no state-income tax (made up with high sales-tax and prop taxes), which is why as soon as my working years are over — I’m getting the hell out!