For those supported Obamacare...

[ucbruin]

I never supply solutions....
I only whine about things I don't like....

 

[Zoe]

I never supply solutions....
I only whine about things I don't like....

It is worse than that with me. You don't make promises running for public office that you have no intention of keeping. We have a way better plan on healthcare was a broken promise.

I will not forget it.

 

[chad hampton]

More of the false both sides are bad - health care is better overall in Canada and better still in other European nations and in Australia-

Who knows, my next-door neighbors are Canadian, they moved here for work 20 years ango and have raised their family here. Now he has a good job with good benefits, probably makes 250 K a year and I’d say they are relatively liberal. He can’t stand the Canadian healthcare system. Most of his friends in Canada come down here for any significant work They need done.

The US has the best healthcare system in the world. If you’re a millionaire, it’s hard to argue otherwise.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

My knee surgery is scheduled for July. Since I was on cortisone, I had to wait 90 days before the surgery because of the cortisone. My heart doctor wants to see me pre-surgery. The therapist will see me pre-surgery. This isn't going to be any fun but my knee is getting progressively worse since I hyper-extended it in January. They seem to be pretty timely to me. And lots of Canadians are buying private insurance or flying to Malaysia or Turkey for orthopedic surgery. You cannot get an MRI in less than 6 weeks I am told. For someone with breast cancer or liver cancer that could be the difference in living or dying.

 

[ucbruin]

As in appraising....
YMMV....

Medical services in the US can be difficult if doctors aren't accepting new patients....

 

[George Hatch]

Both systems suck. We have a fear of dying. Charlie munger said it best, 90% of healthcare money is spent on the dying, and they aren’t saveable. Most money, including your life savings will be spent to extend your life another 4-6 months.

But we’ve been conditioned to believe it’s inhumane to talk like that, so we have no choice - Healthcare will remain a disaster in both countries forever.

Health insurance should be catastrophic -cancer, heart disease, etc. Out-of-pocket for everything else. That would prevent people from going to the doctor for every little bull**** ailment they have.

These hospitals, theyre built are like palaces, who do you think pays for that? Hospital should be four people to a room, the goal is to get in and get out as fast as you can, not stay there like you’re living at the Ritz Carlton. Used to be 50 doctors for everyone administrator, now it’s probably five to one. And if I had to guess I would say the hedge funds and capital investment groups are now in the hospital business. So that only ****s things up even more.

I agree completely.

We have extended the number of years people live, but we haven't extended the number of "high quality of life" years. What is left is delaying the length of time it takes to pass.

If I make it to the end of my REL then (IMO) that amounts to a life well lived. I do not aspire to live into my late 80s by which time I will probably be more burden than benefit to my people. They have their own lives to lead and less stress is better than more stress. Everyone else can do what they do, but my intention for many years has been to allow the first serious threat to take me after the age of 65. Whether its sooner from there or later from there.

 

[TerryRohrer]

My knee surgery is scheduled for July. Since I was on cortisone, I had to wait 90 days before the surgery because of the cortisone. My heart doctor wants to see me pre-surgery. The therapist will see me pre-surgery. This isn't going to be any fun but my knee is getting progressively worse since I hyper-extended it in January. They seem to be pretty timely to me. And lots of Canadians are buying private insurance or flying to Malaysia or Turkey for orthopedic surgery. You cannot get an MRI in less than 6 weeks I am told. For someone with breast cancer or liver cancer that could be the difference in living or dying.

Be sure to post a video of your first post-surgery jog!

 

[Dale Floyd]

My knee surgery is scheduled for July. Since I was on cortisone, I had to wait 90 days before the surgery because of the cortisone. My heart doctor wants to see me pre-surgery. The therapist will see me pre-surgery. This isn't going to be any fun but my knee is getting progressively worse since I hyper-extended it in January. They seem to be pretty timely to me. And lots of Canadians are buying private insurance or flying to Malaysia or Turkey for orthopedic surgery. You cannot get an MRI in less than 6 weeks I am told. For someone with breast cancer or liver cancer that could be the difference in living or dying.

I'm headed for two knee replacements - One the 25th of this month, and the other after complete recovery of the first this year.

Found out yesterday morning that replacements are the only real option for me - Being that I also have pre-surgical visits for PT and admission, I also find it difficult to complain about the time this is going to take for action.

I'm sorry you are having problems too, Terrell. My past days of football continue to reveal the impact of those days on my body. lol

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

Found out yesterday morning that replacements are the only real option for me

I was diagnosed with arthritis in my teens. At age 19 I was Xrayed by an orthopedic doctor and determined I have trick knees. My patella is bone to bone contact. Therapy and exercise worked well until I fell in the snow last winter hyper-extending the left knee. I won't need both at this point. But recovery is estimated at 6 months and the older you are the slower it heals.

My old assistant had lupus which is very tiring. She developed breast cancer and went thru treatments and surgery. They warned her due to her lupus her recovery would be very slow. The last few years have not been kind to her. She's less than a year younger than me.

 

[jturner01]

Specialist appointments here in America can take months too.
And at least this Canadian citizen had coverage to pay for his appointment, rather than going into tens of thousands of debt for it or not having coverage at all.
WE were stuck with Obamacare as a compromise because the GOP voted down Medicare for all or other forms of universal health care, which allows citizens in many nations better health care and cheaper health care and drugs at a fraction of the price we pay for the same drugs and meds.

The only reason it takes this long is because Obamacare was written by the insurance companies and other corporate insiders.... It is bleeding the middle class dry.