I wish to hell some of these jackasses would get the bright idea to actually address actual health care rather than continually bending us over for the insurance companies.
Seriously - when was the last time you allowed an insurance adjuster to remove your gallbladder?
Insurance is NOT health care - it's just a scam meant to skin you out of your money, with nothing to show for it.
I have no insurance, and had to go to hospital earlier this year. I was there about 90 minutes total, 20 or so of which involved a "procedure" that I could have done at home with a pocket knife and gritted teeth... and which was ultimately useless and unnecessary, anyhow. For that, I got charged $5500.00. That works out to 7500.00 an hour for the doctor, and $2000.00 an hour for the hospital - nice work I guess, if you can get it. There is not an insurance plan anywhere within a thousand miles of here that would have covered the first penny of it.
I don't make quite that much per hour.
And the doctor tried to talk me into surgery with yet ANOTHER doctor, after that. No thanks.
If they would just address actual health care costs and get them into the reasonable range, we could all tell the insurance companies to pound salt up their asses. Instead, they insist of getting captive extortionees for the insurance companies, guarantee them an exorbitant income without requiring them to actually pay, you know, health care costs, and those private corporation laugh all the way to the bank.
All the while, the politicos are studiously ignoring actual, you know, health care, but boldly naming it as the reason for their silly-assed laws, as if health care had any goddamned thing at all to do with what they are doing.
Even this silly Socialist plan is just about government insurance, not a goddamned thing to do with actual HEALTH CARE.
Bastards, the lot of 'em.
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Seriously - when was the last time you allowed an insurance adjuster to remove your gallbladder?
Insurance is NOT health care - it's just a scam meant to skin you out of your money, with nothing to show for it.
I have no insurance, and had to go to hospital earlier this year. I was there about 90 minutes total, 20 or so of which involved a "procedure" that I could have done at home with a pocket knife and gritted teeth... and which was ultimately useless and unnecessary, anyhow. For that, I got charged $5500.00. That works out to 7500.00 an hour for the doctor, and $2000.00 an hour for the hospital - nice work I guess, if you can get it. There is not an insurance plan anywhere within a thousand miles of here that would have covered the first penny of it.
I don't make quite that much per hour.
And the doctor tried to talk me into surgery with yet ANOTHER doctor, after that. No thanks.
If they would just address actual health care costs and get them into the reasonable range, we could all tell the insurance companies to pound salt up their asses. Instead, they insist of getting captive extortionees for the insurance companies, guarantee them an exorbitant income without requiring them to actually pay, you know, health care costs, and those private corporation laugh all the way to the bank.
All the while, the politicos are studiously ignoring actual, you know, health care, but boldly naming it as the reason for their silly-assed laws, as if health care had any goddamned thing at all to do with what they are doing.
Even this silly Socialist plan is just about government insurance, not a goddamned thing to do with actual HEALTH CARE.
Bastards, the lot of 'em.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’