Man Robs Bank to get Healthcare. - Page 13

On June 22 2011 07:33 Mauldo wrote:
1) Limit the amount of money that the Pharmaceutical companies can charge for a pill. I don't care if it took your 50 million dollars to design the pill, you don't have to make 50 million of those LIFESAVING PILLS and charge 100 bucks each. I'm a good American, and I love making a profit off of something I made, but profiting by making the dangerously ill sell their homes and an extra kidney is ludicrous.

2) Keep Obamacare, at least up to the part where Insurance companies are getting forced to not do that "pre-existing condition" bullshit. And they can't artificially raise premiums on people who have developed a chronic illness to force them from their plan. Don't tell me it didn't happen, I've seen the articles and the interviews. And that's what happens when you've allowed capitalism to infect the business of safeguarding life. People are killed to make a few bucks.

3) Allow people to buy into Tri-Care, the current form of insurance for the American military. I'm currently on it, and it's awesome. There's no dental, but fuck. When you get basically any major surgery for a simple 20 dollar co-pay, and every medicine you could ever need for either a 3 or 6 dollar co-pay, it's awesome. Once I'm out of undergraduate school, I could stay in Tri-Care if I agreed to a premium of $1,000 a quarter. That's a flat $4,000 a year to be on some pretty damned awesome insurance. If I had that money, and wasn't a poor ass college student, I wouldn't hesitate. If the government could offer that to me, and I'm the dependent of retired Air Force, then there's no reason why they can't offer similar to the American people at large.

4) Introduce Tort Reform. It's ridiculous how American "Sue and Counter-Sue" culture has become. Long gone are the days where if your neighbor broke a post in the fence he would fucking just repair the fence. Now you have to sue him to fix it (but, obviously, the plantiff has only given the defendant a month to fix it, but everyone's douches here apparently) and there's got to be a counter-claim about how the tree in their yard blocks light from some important room and BLAH BLAH BLAH.

This, of course, translates into a woman getting 50 million dollars because a doctor left a sponge in her stomach cavity. Nothing was harmed, and the hospital paid for the procedure to take it out, and obviously offered a settlement in line with her...you know..having to be cut open again...but no. The woman gets 50 million dollars. That's ludicrous. People should get money if they're damaged like that, but there's a reason why there's a doctor shortage. No small part of it is the 300,000 dollars in student loan debt followed by exorbitant malpractice insurance costs. Don't tell me that the doctors deserve to pay those outlandish costs, because they don't.

4) Make accepting Medicare and Medicaid easier. There was a report by the AP that talked about a study done in Illinois. Children who were on state insurance were forced to wait for life saving specialists up to a month or two months longer than those children with private insurance. When your child has a "Holy shit, heart tumor" problem and the cardiologist says "Sorry, I have to make you wait a month and a half" while he squeezes in the private insurance baby two weeks from when they called there's something wrong.

And no, it's not discrimination against the poor. It's the fact that going through all of the hoops for Medicare and Medicaid is fucking annoying and time consuming and completely unwarranted. There's all of that work and paperwork, and you're not even guaranteed to get all of your costs back.

I'm all for helping poor people, I promise. I grew up living pay check to pay check and learning how to eat Mustard/Ketchup sandwiches when we couldn't afford the two dollar lumps of "Ham and Cheese Loaf," which is as disgusting as it sounds. My mother went on WIC when she had my littlest brother, and she came off of it promptly when he turned one. She only ever took outright government assistance in Welfare when she cut up her hand in the glass factory she was working in and so couldn't work there or in the second job she had. She was on it for a year, and jumped right back off when she got a job with the school district.

I've never really known what it's like to have all of my expenses "cared for." It's just never worked out that way for me, especially now that I'm in college. I may have scholarships, which have saved me from ten thousands of dollars worth of debt, but I can't work when I'm taking a full course load of 18 hours. I'm constantly living with the idea of stretching out the 1,000 dollars I get from my scholarships to live on for 4 bloody months a semester. Yeah, I remember those London riots that the students had. They were over what, having to pay 5,000 dollars a year or a semester for schooling? Lulz, I would be paying $10,000 a semester ($20,000 an academic year) for schooling if I didn't have scholarships. And that's the normal thing around here in America.

I say all of that to shore up any claim that I'm just "out of touch" or "don't know what I'm talking about." No, I do. I know what it's like to not be able to get sick because your mom can't afford to take you to the hospital. I know what it's like to live paycheck to paycheck for most of my life. I also know what it's like to have quality health insurance in Tricare, and I know the fear that's pulsing through me when I turn 22 and I'm thrown off of it. No one should have to be in constant fear of being sick.

Government subsidized healthcare would at least ease that pain. Give everyone a fucking 200 dollar tax credit for healthcare insurance, and be done with it. Give them that, give them the option to buy into TriCare, and do the other stuff I called for up above. All of that, and I'm only 21 years old. Damn. I should be a politician or something.

On June 22 2011 07:33 Mauldo wrote:
1) Limit the amount of money that the Pharmaceutical companies can charge for a pill. I don't care if it took your 50 million dollars to design the pill, you don't have to make 50 million of those LIFESAVING PILLS and charge 100 bucks each. I'm a good American, and I love making a profit off of something I made, but profiting by making the dangerously ill sell their homes and an extra kidney is ludicrous.

2) Keep Obamacare, at least up to the part where Insurance companies are getting forced to not do that "pre-existing condition" bullshit. And they can't artificially raise premiums on people who have developed a chronic illness to force them from their plan. Don't tell me it didn't happen, I've seen the articles and the interviews. And that's what happens when you've allowed capitalism to infect the business of safeguarding life. People are killed to make a few bucks.

3) Allow people to buy into Tri-Care, the current form of insurance for the American military. I'm currently on it, and it's awesome. There's no dental, but fuck. When you get basically any major surgery for a simple 20 dollar co-pay, and every medicine you could ever need for either a 3 or 6 dollar co-pay, it's awesome. Once I'm out of undergraduate school, I could stay in Tri-Care if I agreed to a premium of $1,000 a quarter. That's a flat $4,000 a year to be on some pretty damned awesome insurance. If I had that money, and wasn't a poor ass college student, I wouldn't hesitate. If the government could offer that to me, and I'm the dependent of retired Air Force, then there's no reason why they can't offer similar to the American people at large.

4) Introduce Tort Reform. It's ridiculous how American "Sue and Counter-Sue" culture has become. Long gone are the days where if your neighbor broke a post in the fence he would fucking just repair the fence. Now you have to sue him to fix it (but, obviously, the plantiff has only given the defendant a month to fix it, but everyone's douches here apparently) and there's got to be a counter-claim about how the tree in their yard blocks light from some important room and BLAH BLAH BLAH.

This, of course, translates into a woman getting 50 million dollars because a doctor left a sponge in her stomach cavity. Nothing was harmed, and the hospital paid for the procedure to take it out, and obviously offered a settlement in line with her...you know..having to be cut open again...but no. The woman gets 50 million dollars. That's ludicrous. People should get money if they're damaged like that, but there's a reason why there's a doctor shortage. No small part of it is the 300,000 dollars in student loan debt followed by exorbitant malpractice insurance costs. Don't tell me that the doctors deserve to pay those outlandish costs, because they don't.

4) Make accepting Medicare and Medicaid easier. There was a report by the AP that talked about a study done in Illinois. Children who were on state insurance were forced to wait for life saving specialists up to a month or two months longer than those children with private insurance. When your child has a "Holy shit, heart tumor" problem and the cardiologist says "Sorry, I have to make you wait a month and a half" while he squeezes in the private insurance baby two weeks from when they called there's something wrong.

And no, it's not discrimination against the poor. It's the fact that going through all of the hoops for Medicare and Medicaid is fucking annoying and time consuming and completely unwarranted. There's all of that work and paperwork, and you're not even guaranteed to get all of your costs back.

I'm all for helping poor people, I promise. I grew up living pay check to pay check and learning how to eat Mustard/Ketchup sandwiches when we couldn't afford the two dollar lumps of "Ham and Cheese Loaf," which is as disgusting as it sounds. My mother went on WIC when she had my littlest brother, and she came off of it promptly when he turned one. She only ever took outright government assistance in Welfare when she cut up her hand in the glass factory she was working in and so couldn't work there or in the second job she had. She was on it for a year, and jumped right back off when she got a job with the school district.

I've never really known what it's like to have all of my expenses "cared for." It's just never worked out that way for me, especially now that I'm in college. I may have scholarships, which have saved me from ten thousands of dollars worth of debt, but I can't work when I'm taking a full course load of 18 hours. I'm constantly living with the idea of stretching out the 1,000 dollars I get from my scholarships to live on for 4 bloody months a semester. Yeah, I remember those London riots that the students had. They were over what, having to pay 5,000 dollars a year or a semester for schooling? Lulz, I would be paying $10,000 a semester ($20,000 an academic year) for schooling if I didn't have scholarships. And that's the normal thing around here in America.

I say all of that to shore up any claim that I'm just "out of touch" or "don't know what I'm talking about." No, I do. I know what it's like to not be able to get sick because your mom can't afford to take you to the hospital. I know what it's like to live paycheck to paycheck for most of my life. I also know what it's like to have quality health insurance in Tricare, and I know the fear that's pulsing through me when I turn 22 and I'm thrown off of it. No one should have to be in constant fear of being sick.

Government subsidized healthcare would at least ease that pain. Give everyone a fucking 200 dollar tax credit for healthcare insurance, and be done with it. Give them that, give them the option to buy into TriCare, and do the other stuff I called for up above. All of that, and I'm only 21 years old. Damn. I should be a politician or something.