Rob Henderson
Banned
Because good health care should not be exclusively affordable to people who have served or are serving in the military. Sure, we could give our servicemen and women some extra benefits, but solid basic health care shouldn't be so unattainable to the general public. Have you ever talked with a private insurance company about your diabetes? Are you Type I or Type II? Because that can have a huge impact on your ability to get private insurance... We've been through this conversation before... The problem is never the quality, it's the price for it.The health care I need & have earned as a military retiree, Tricare, will be cut by 21% as will Medicare when I'm eligible. How do I profit from this at a time when I need health care the most - a newly diagnosed diabetic? Once you get to read the whole health care law, if you have that much time (is it over 3000 pages yet?) you'll understand what this will do to our overall well being. Don't let them kid you that treatments aren't rationed. I have relatives in Canada who have to come to the States for treatment when the clinics up there performed the amount of a certain procedures that met their quota & can't do any more until the next fiscal year. The Senate plan is modeled after the Canadian & UK plans which are both growing broke after many raises in taxes to support them.
Tell me, Sergeant, what would YOU suggest for our health care?Our system needs fixing - no argument there but the majority of US citizens think it goes WAY to far.
This landslide election in Mass has already made the Dems change their plans. Hopefully they'll come out behind closed doors & stop making bribes for senate votes when they're hammering out the law affecting MY future.
(Don't even bother with the jabs at Democrats, as we ALL know that politics is dirty on BOTH sides of the aisle.)