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By: Safe but Not Satisfied: Group Insurance and Health Reform : Living the Epilogue

Safe but Not Satisfied: Group Insurance and Health Reform : Living the Epilogue — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:55:08 +0000

[...] difference between this plan and the one we were so graciously allowed to go to great lengths to obtain and pay for is stunning. I didn’t mention it here because it gets into a lot of TMI territory, but my [...]

By: This Little Piggy Flu Away… : Living the Epilogue

This Little Piggy Flu Away… : Living the Epilogue — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:18:34 +0000

[...] doing this?) until I she had me freaked out too. Mostly because due to the continuing saga of our insurance/Medicaid adventures, AJ doesn’t really have a doctor around here that I could [...]

By: wayne

wayne — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:07:14 +0000

Wendy, thanks for sharing your family’s story. I am with you that we definitely need some major kind of reform and I know that people in need often fall through the cracks of the system; but it is different to actually know people that it has happened to.

By: Lee Ann

Lee Ann — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:00:20 +0000

After sending your article to friends, Wendy, I received this comment back:

Thanks for the information. Our healthcare system is in sad shape. One of the problems is that I don’t think many people who have decent health care realize how bad the situation is for the rest of the country. More and more people are falling through the large cracks or crevices in the system. I hope that Obama will do something. The rest of us could write our Senators, etc.

By: Lee Ann

Lee Ann — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:47:17 +0000

Wendy, your personal experience is excellent testimony in favor of the US providing health care to everyone, just like every other industrialized, capitalist country does in the world. (I add the “capitalist” because Communist China is a major industrialized country that, like the US, does not provide health care for all its citizens.) I am appalled that the US has, among most other health care statistics, one of the worst rates of infant death in the developed world and one of the lowest life expectancies. (Truly!) I will be so happy when everyone in the US can get health care, and we can have some of the BEST health statistics in the world!

By: Wendy

Wendy — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:21:21 +0000

Nancy, I’ll email you (or anyone) more thoughts if you want, but I’d love to see a nice conversation here in comments, so…

There is no bill on any table that takes any private insurance away from anybody. Yes, I absolutely think insurance companies are lobbying HARD with hype and fear. The two arguments are (1) public plan will be a horrible disaster no one will want and (2) public plan will be so much better and cheaper that everyone will want it. But those are completely contradictory! The actions of insurance etc. seem a giveaway that #2 is more likely, and why wouldn’t we want to make available something that’s better and cheaper?

By: Ren

Ren — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:20:30 +0000

*Insurance* companies are cash cows and the thought of a big, government backed plan as competition is making them woozy. Companies like BCBS even tout themselves as “nonprofit”, which is a joke. They willingly steal our hard earned money and then refuse to give it back when we really need it.

The whole system is corrupt in my personal opinion. Insurance companies are like the corrupt cops of the drug cartels, pretending to serve and protect when in many instances, they are aiding and abetting…skimming the cream off the top.
I feel for you and your family, as well as all the other hardworking men, women and their children who must go without health care coverage due to extraordinary road blocks. Keep fighting…

By: Nancy

Nancy — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:10:57 +0000

so why all the hype and fear of “losing private insurance” do you think the insurance companies are just running scared and politicizing the whole thing?? or do you think there is some validity to the fears being raised? I rather like Mike Huckabee but his opinion is not so optimistic on this bill….