You could play that game forever. Here's one that even better:
Insurer's agreement to cover surgery comes too late
"You guys killed my daughter," the diminutive San Fernando Valley real estate agent declared at the lobby security desk. "I want an apology." (17 year old daughter denied surgery - died)
What she got was something quite different.
Cigna employees, looking down into the atrium lobby from a balcony above, began heckling her, she said, with one of them giving her "the finger."
Insurer's agreement to cover surgery comes too late - Los Angeles Times
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Number one cause of bankruptcy - medical bills
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Admit it. Republicans don't give a hoot about American citizens. They care more for insurance companies that stand between doctors and patients. Companies that made 12 billion last year by dropping 2.7 million Americans.
To defend that is just odious. Awful and odious. What kind of people are Republicans? They can't be real citizens. How is that possible?
"Play the game forever"? Really?
How many wealthy American's run to Canada for life saving surgery they can't get in the U.S. every year? Did you even read the link to see how many Canadian women died of cancer that did not have too?
I will "admit" this, tragic things happen in every system ever developed. They are all human creations after all.
However there are aspects of our health care (and more free economy in general) that sadly can not ever be measured in a tit for tat race. Every year American medical technology improves faster than anywhere else on earth. Every year America developes more life saving drugs than anyone. Every year America develops more life saving procedures than anywhere else on earth. Why? We know American's are not superior to other people, our educational system is not as good as most (pre-college... pre-mostly-free market) and we know there is no such thing as a superior "race" of people. It's our system and our freedoms and nothing more.
No one else can keep up with our level of research funding and inovation because no one else has the capital we have. Why? Because their taxes are too high and their regulation is too stringent. Way to much of their money goes to the wealfare statism of socialist policy. They are all equal in their home countries (not counting the political class) but they are all equaly inferior.
The tragedy is not that a handful of Americans die due to lack of public option or that many in other "Western" countries die due to excess of public options. The tragedy (to me) is what could Europe be developing (new drugs, methods, technology) that might save countless future lives if they were more free?
It's the classic "unseen hand" the "rising tide that lifts all boats". Look how far medicine has come in America in the last 50 years. What if Europe was running at our pace too? What if China was? The whole world even? The only thing holding the rest of the world back is their backwards-ass government philosophies. In light of all we know, how insane is it that half our government is now tyring to follow the lead of the backwards world rather than trying to lead everyone else toward our vastly better system?
Why should "wealthy Americans" run to Canada? They're "wealthy". They can afford health care.
So if you aren't wealthy, then what?
Average cost to an emergency room is over $1000. If you are between 45 and 65, it's over $1500. Average cost of one day in hospital is $4,700 and that doesn't include X-rays and other fees. Who pays for all that if someone doesn't have insurance? Come on now, think it through. How does that get paid for? Why won't Republicans answer these questions? Why?
And yet the answer is to fine anyone who doesn't want health insurance $5,000 a year? Not just a flat $5,000 and then you're done, no $5,000 a year. Do you know the statistics of how many people the Democrats are claiming in their uninsured numbers actually have access to health insurance, but don't take advantage of it?
Rick