that England and Canada are going back towards private health care. Better not put that on the news, it would be terrible if people new the truth about public health care.
I don't have experience with state run health care, but I found this comment left after this article on forbes.com interesting.
"Democrats will do to the medical industry what they've done to schooling: made it public, and made it sub-standard, and far from world class.
I am on the NJ state plan for health care and it's "horrible" in the words of my physician, and I agree. I am on the plan because NJ "crowded out" my college alumni health insurance which was affordable and would cover major medical. The alumni insurance is available in 48 states except New York and NJ due to overregulation meaning the insurance is mandated to cover an enormous amount of services, many of which I don't even want. Therefore, because so many other insurances are also "crowded out" of New Jersey the remaining available ones are too expensive.I am now waiting on my appeal for an MRI, which has been denied. I have injured my neck so severely that my hearing is cutting in and out intermittently, like a broken stereo speaker, and I'm having sudden dizzy spells. I am 49 and in excellent health, otherwise. I have used the insurance very little, but my doctor said he expected them to deny the MRI even though it is obvious that I need it. Now I'm living on Vicodin for the last 2 months until this gets sorted out. If it ever gets sorted out. I don't have a lot of hope. The doctor said he may have to send me to an expensive specialist in order to get the MRI approved through that doctor. He said the state system was extremely wasteful and complicated.I have processed insurance claims for doctors professionally for several years, and I have never dealt with a more dysfunctional system than the NJ state system. From the very beginning, it took more than 15 phone calls for them to get the original sign-up right. THEN, when they gave me a list of doctors to call, all 30 (THIRTY!) phone numbers were invalid. The phone numbers went to teenagers cell phones, disconnected numbers and offices that said they'd never had taken the state insurance ever. I wish this plan on all liberals."
Friday, June 19, 2009
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Wouldn't you believe it? I actually had a run-in with single-payer health. While serving my mission in Canada I started having severe abdominal pains. My companion and I waited in the emergency room for 3.5 hours (that's 210 minutes, and I counted every one) to see an ultrasound technician who wasn't supposed to diagnose anything but said it was a gallstone, anyway. I was told to hang in there and was transferred to Metropolitan Toronto to see a "specialist" who advised me to tough it out the remaining 18 months of my stay. At this point all I could eat were saltines and occassionally top ramen. My president asked me to go to Salt Lake to get my gallbladder taken out. The surgeon who took it out (quickly, efficiently, and with so few side effects I thought I had just taken a nap) said that he had never seen such a diseased organ in someone my age, and that, had I left it in much longer, it would have caused catastrophic damage. So, long story short, government run health care is probably one of the worst ideas in the history of horrible ideas, right up there with steel wool underwear. Great post, though, this information has to get out there.
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