I see many people are complaining about health care reform, Hedgie's undies are in a bundle, does he realize that initially this was a republican idea? I guess that's the part that turns me off a little, if this would be a republican president doing this, Hedge would be all for it. Hedge I think you are doing well paying $400 per month out of pocket for you and your kids. Christ I pay close to $300 now and I am single, but my employer doesn't chip in, that's my fault though, I could work at an institution and get most covered but I love my job and the freedoms I have so a little extra coin for that doesn't bother me.
I think from what I am seeing for a single guy like myself at 40, the reform will not affect me much. My brother in law is a health care expert of some sorts. He likes the idea, he thinks it will lower costs in the long run due to preventitive care. That remains to be seen.
I really hate the painted picture that everyone getting free health care is a "dead beat drug user." I guess it may depend on where you live. Hell I live in northern hicksville, my area is as redneck as you will find in the North. Are there some people abusing the system here? hell yeah, I know two guys who are capable of working who got some dumb ass doctors to free them from working, but for those 2 I know many more people who need it. It's just the way it is. What about that young guy or people who can afford health care who choose right now not to have it.? :shrug: Those people kill the system as well.
The part I like about the health care plan is that it allows for people to be treated early, there definitely will be some lives saved, maybe somebody you know will get checked in time before it is too late. Preventitive care maybe where it is at, it really is emotionally and physically draining to take care of patients who are dying from the big C.
WE are the reason health care is so expensive not Obama. Think about this.
We put so many carcinogens in our body from cigs, alcohol, to fatty foods. Look at the obesity problem and it's only going to get worse with the days of technology and video games. The fact is, most of us will use up more health care dollars in emergency room care, medication, surgery, trauma, catastrophic events to name just a few then what we ever spend. We just don't rationalize it because most of us are not at that age where we expend it.
Not to pick on Hedgy but he has stated that he is taking BP meds, I think Cholesterol meds as well, and is admittedly over weight. Add in the stress he was having with family life plus Obama became president putting his stress level over the top. He is
not even 40. Is he exercising regularily and eating right? would probably guess not, not just because it's him, but most people his age do not. So keep taking him and people like him for example and look at what happens living that same life style when he is 50, 60 or 70 (if live that long) We are talking more BP meds, most likely more diuretics, onset of diabetes, add in a probable surgery of some kind, stent placement and cardiac rehab. A person like this could be absorbing hundreds of thousand of dollars in health care costs. That $400 per month he is paying now is a drop in the bucket compared to what a person like his health care is really going to cost.
You guys can keep blaming the drug taking deadbeats. I'll blame everyone.
