Socialized Medicine? No Thanks

[ploto]

Office type physicians will tell you that their business is down. People are losing jobs and losing insurance. Some who have it do not want to pay their copays unless they are really bad off-- trying over the counter stuff and home remedies. Patients are not spending money for routine check-ups. More and more are waiting until they are really sick and/or showing up at emergency rooms where they figure they will get treatment.

[balli]

You can't get medical assistance worth a anymore unless you have insurance. I can't even begin to count the times I've either been turned down for medical care or been forced to live with my ailment because the billing would have exceeded 10,000 dollars. There has got to be some middle ground here somewhere.

And on the other side of the coin, I don't trust the medical establishment because I feel like since I am insured, in order to make more money, they're giving me bad medical advice.

I went in to an ENT a couple weeks ago because my nose has been stuffed the up and I think I might have a deviated septum. The doc tells me that my septum didn't look that crooked and that I should try a steroid. Literally two seconds later he asked me if I was insured. I told him yes, he asked to look at my nose again and right then and there he recommended surgery. So WTF? Who do you trust?

I'm going to go see a healer.

[The Club]

You notice homeless people never get Cancer?

[MiamiHeat]

amount of homeless people compared to amount of non-homeless people.

from the few homeless people who do get cancer out of the small amount of homeless people, amount of them that actually see a doctor and get diagnosed with cancer as opposed to those who never go to a doctor because they are homeless

make no sense you do