the Issue I see in Healthcare here in America.......

[JB]

Re: the Issue I see in Healthcare here in America.......

I agree that there are crooks and charlatans in the health care field, Bond-o, but I strongly disagree that they are the root of the overall cost or even more than a small minority.

What you are complaining about seems to be crime in health care rather than the true cost.

 

[Boomyal]

Re: the Issue I see in Healthcare here in America.......

I said it 2 years ago, and I'll say it again. Healthcare is going to do more damage to this country than anything else, barring a depression.

Well BB, why has this nation gotten as far as it has, with the same basic concept of medical care. If it is so heinous today, why did it work so well for all these years? Why did it enable the American medical research community to make such incredible gains in knowledge, understanding and remedies?

This is not all to say that there is no problem. I just want to hear something, out of the box, from someone who hails from the left.

Pulllllllllllleeeeeeeeeeeeeze don't respond that Hillarycare would be our savior.

 

[BoatBuoy]

Re: the Issue I see in Healthcare here in America.......

I said it 2 years ago, and I'll say it again. Healthcare is going to do more damage to this country than anything else, barring a depression.

Well BB, why has this nation gotten as far as it has, with the same basic concept of medical care. If it is so heinous today, why did it work so well for all these years? Why did it enable the American medical research community to make such incredible gains in knowledge, understanding and remedies?

This is not all to say that there is no problem. I just want to hear something, out of the box, from someone who hails from the left.

Pulllllllllllleeeeeeeeeeeeeze don't respond that Hillarycare would be our savior.

I don't have any solutions. I don't even know for sure where the problem is, and I don't know what Hillary's plan is. I do know that healthcare costs are increasing at an exponential rate.

And I don't understand your caustic response to my previous remark. Weren't you the one bitchin' a couple of weeks ago about the exorbitant charges by the dermatologist to remove your wife's zits?

 

[Boomyal]

Re: the Issue I see in Healthcare here in America.......

I thought my question to you was very civil. If you have been following the healthcare issue for two years, as you profess, you are extremely behind the eightball if you do not now what Hillary's solution was. Also, after two years of following the issue, a progressive , critical thinker (liberal) such as yourself, should have come up with some ideas of his own regarding the issue.

And by the way, it was not zits that my wife had removed, they were precancerous lesions that took no special skill, no high tech remedies, that cost the equivalant of 1600$ an hour to execute.

 

[QC]

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I don't understand your caustic response

I sense no seething detestation . . . :0 . . . In fact I thought Boomer was pretty mild.

It does seem if you're predicting our demise (along with Al Gore, but for an entirely different reason) that you might have a suggestion or two . . . If rising health-care costs will send us into a depression, can I assume it would be from more of our personal dinero going towards health-care? Exponentially? And if it is because more of our disposable income is wiped away, how would it be any different if you and I (I assume you have insurance) had to help pay for Bondo's while also paying for ours? Wouldn't that be more money out of my pocket? And since Bondo actually pays cash for his care now, wouldn't he actually, potentially, be better off, at our expense? And, and, if your response is that we take the profits out of the insurance companies' pockets, wouldn't that mean fewer claims analysts? And if all of that needless reconciling and phone calls, and stuff didn't happened and the Doctor didn't need two clerks, wouldn't they also be out of work? Sounds like a potential depression to me either way we turn. So I have the same suggestion I do for Global Warming. Let's just keep it like it is, 'cause we're fooked either way . . .