No, perfect health is a luxury. Basic health care is not. Preventative care should not be. Even people with insurance have limits on what they can get. For instance:
My insurance covers the orthotics my doctor made for me. I’m sure I could find a doctor who would make me better, cooler, more high tech ones, which I’d have to pay for out of pocket. Rich people could still get the pricey ones if they want. No one is preventing rich people from spending as much money as they want on high profile doctors, elective surgeries, traveling to “better” hospitals and facilities, etc.
I wasn’t setting you up for anything. I mentioned to Bosstone exactly what I was asking. So how about simply answering the question. YOU are the one who extrapolated the relationship the between rich and poor as far as food goes to healthcare. Now how about simply asking the question? There’s no boogeyman question around the corner. I’m just surprised that someone would advocate the rich and poor should get the same healthcare. That’s what you said upthread, and seem to defend now.
Well if only my insurance would cover me getting a massage once a week I’d be in damn fine condition.
Cool, I haven’t looked into a podiatrist, I need to find a good one. I am scared of them because I’ve heard a lot of them are surgery happy. A friend of mine knows one that is more into the postural stuff, maybe he accepts my insurance, but she’s hard to pin down.
You must have also missed every class on reading comprehension and logic, too. I was asking a question to Rubystreak about what she said. I even quoted it, dumbshit. Your post to me is out of the blue, has no bearing on anything I’ve said. Congratulations on your climb to the upper nethers of the OneDumbFuck totem pole.
What I quoted wasn’t an answer. But I see that you did answer it as I was posting to you. My bad for not being able to read what was not there in the meantime. But thanks for the answer. It seems that your initial statement was simply on overstatement. As I both surmised and hoped.
I hear you on that. This is the kind of thing I wish insurance would cover, since it’s cheaper and better for you than taking pain meds, or eventually getting back surgery.
I have never been told by a podiatrist I needed surgery, though I have really flat feet, plantar fasciitis, and pronation. My feet freakin’ kill me every day. The orthotics help, and my insurance did pay for them. Getting really structured shoes also helps.
My answer was what you quoted, plus what I said to mswas. Everyone is entitled to decent, quality care. You can pay for premium care, but that’s up to you.
Dude, you definitely need a new schtick. Your “X is stupid”, “Y is a moron”, etc. is beyond stale. And when you so easily revert to calling people dumb, moron, etc., as you do, it kinda loses its sting and makes you look really fucking lame. In a dull, boring, pull-the-string-on-the-doll kinda way.
No, that’s not true. I have many ways to slap people about the ears. I reserve the stupid glove for those who not only irritate me, but irritate me with flagrant stupidity. And even then, I do it with nuance, freshness. Elan.
I’m thinking UHC is too much too soon. We should start by providing wellness care for children, then step it up to UHC for children, then take lessons learned and provide a spectrum of public/private options for a hybrid form of UHC. There’s going to be quite a bit of sticker shock. European countries are at an advantage because they instituted UHC while they were still economically desperate in the years following WWII; there wasn’t a bunch of “me first” numbnutted overgrown children with car keys going “waaah, I don’t wanna pay taxes, so I’m gonna collect guns and piss and moan!!” to deal with. Too bad a bunch of spoiled, overgrown children are the primary impediment to making sure real children don’t die.
Frankly, I think what is being proposed is too little, too late. I would kill for a single-payer system and I think the insurance industry needs to be first against the wall.
This doesn’t. Especially since the people who are pushing hardest for UHC, which you fear may be “too much too soon”, are people on the left, not the right. Your ham-handed cartoonish characterization of them aside.
I think it has to be all-or-nothing simply because anything that does start out as something worthwhile will be pared down to ‘practically useless’ by the time it actually gets passed. Just do it and get it over with. The longer you wait the more people it hurts for no good reason.
