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RaceBannon
RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,019 Founders Club
https://foxnews.com/politics/kamala-harris-under-fire-after-promising-to-abolish-private-health-care-plans-thats-not-american


"Who among us has not had that situation?" she continued. "Where you got to wait for approval, and the doctor says, 'Well I don't know if your insurance company is going to cover this.' Let's eliminate all of that. Let's move on."


Because National Health isn't going to make you wait.

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  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 23,929

    https://foxnews.com/politics/kamala-harris-under-fire-after-promising-to-abolish-private-health-care-plans-thats-not-american


    "Who among us has not had that situation?" she continued. "Where you got to wait for approval, and the doctor says, 'Well I don't know if your insurance company is going to cover this.' Let's eliminate all of that. Let's move on."


    Because National Health isn't going to make you wait.

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    Leftist fucking stupid

    National reimbursement. Canadians overwhelmingly prefer their system to ours. Cue the anecdotes and likely apocryphal stories in . . . 3 . . . 2 . . . 1
  • HardlyClothed
    HardlyClothed Member Posts: 937
    Find me someone that has a good experience dealing with their health insurer
  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,560

    Find me someone that has a good experience dealing with their health insurer

    If you get a good plan you never have to deal with the health insurer.
  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 23,929

    Find me someone that has a good experience dealing with their health insurer

    If you get a good plan you never have to deal with the health insurer.
    Congratulations on your obviously very good health.
  • WestlinnDuck
    WestlinnDuck Member Posts: 17,596 Standard Supporter
    I have Blue Cross and never had any problems. And we have had significant medical expenses. Of course expecting Blue Cross to have the scintillating record of the VA is too much.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,019 Founders Club
    I should have the choice to use private insurance and if they say no I should have the choice to pay cash

    All of which the storm troopers on the left need to eliminate to take all the money and be worse than insurance

    And yes Canadians flood Seattle hospitals due to long waits. And yes government care by definition will have "death panels" just like Insurance does. The difference being there is no other option
  • SFGbob
    SFGbob Member Posts: 33,183

    https://foxnews.com/politics/kamala-harris-under-fire-after-promising-to-abolish-private-health-care-plans-thats-not-american


    "Who among us has not had that situation?" she continued. "Where you got to wait for approval, and the doctor says, 'Well I don't know if your insurance company is going to cover this.' Let's eliminate all of that. Let's move on."


    Because National Health isn't going to make you wait.

    Longer


    Leftist fucking stupid

    Hondo claims there's no evidence that countries with socialized healthcare have longer waiting periods.

    Don't know if that claim came from poor reading comprehension or if his news source lied to him.
  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,560
    edited January 2019
    HHusky said:

    Find me someone that has a good experience dealing with their health insurer

    If you get a good plan you never have to deal with the health insurer.
    Congratulations on your obviously very good health.
    I've recently had a root canal and crown (cost me $22 out of pocket)

    Went to the doctor recently for pneumonia, paid $200 for the visit because I was below my $1300 deductible, and paid $13 for the antibiotics. Kind of sucks on the $200 doctor visit, but I knew what to expect since I actually read my benefits before I signed up. It's HARD

  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,019 Founders Club
    My doctor was giving me shit about insurance today. I said we really don't want to go there

    70$ cop pay and 60 bucks of pills cash. I think I'm up to 3 or 4 grand a month for insurance thanks to all the fixing that has happened

    He's like you're 62 now and you need it. I said I don't need a cabinet full of drugs like you did to my mom because she was old

    He also told me I am going to have a stroke so I relented to some high blood pressure medicine

    If I disappear you know why
  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 23,929

    I should have the choice to use private insurance and if they say no I should have the choice to pay cash

    All of which the storm troopers on the left need to eliminate to take all the money and be worse than insurance

    And yes Canadians flood Seattle hospitals due to long waits. And yes government care by definition will have "death panels" just like Insurance does. The difference being there is no other option

    At least we agree that there’s no system that can just perpetually say Yes to every treatment.

    I’ve completely missed the “flood of Canadians” to Seattle hospitals. Hyperbole much?
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,019 Founders Club
    HHusky said:

    I should have the choice to use private insurance and if they say no I should have the choice to pay cash

    All of which the storm troopers on the left need to eliminate to take all the money and be worse than insurance

    And yes Canadians flood Seattle hospitals due to long waits. And yes government care by definition will have "death panels" just like Insurance does. The difference being there is no other option

    At least we agree that there’s no system that can just perpetually say Yes to every treatment.

    I’ve completely missed the “flood of Canadians” to Seattle hospitals. Hyperbole much?
    Once again you nailed something not in question but you missed the part about how in non mandated society you can pay for it yourself something Harris wants to eliminate

    My wife worked at VM for 20 years
  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,560
    edited January 2019

    My doctor was giving me shit about insurance today. I said we really don't want to go there

    70$ cop pay and 60 bucks of pills cash. I think I'm up to 3 or 4 grand a month for insurance thanks to all the fixing that has happened

    He's like you're 62 now and you need it. I said I don't need a cabinet full of drugs like you did to my mom because she was old

    He also told me I am going to have a stroke so I relented to some high blood pressure medicine

    If I disappear you know why

    62? I think you're doing well since you can remember details of a doctor visit from 40 years ago
  • UW_Doog_Bot
    UW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,156 Founders Club
    HHusky said:

    I should have the choice to use private insurance and if they say no I should have the choice to pay cash

    All of which the storm troopers on the left need to eliminate to take all the money and be worse than insurance

    And yes Canadians flood Seattle hospitals due to long waits. And yes government care by definition will have "death panels" just like Insurance does. The difference being there is no other option

    At least we agree that there’s no system that can just perpetually say Yes to every treatment.

    I’ve completely missed the “flood of Canadians” to Seattle hospitals. Hyperbole much?


    It's really odd that with our awful healthcare we are 7th in the world in medical tourism. I can't imagine why anyone would leave a socialist paradise to come here for treatment.
  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 23,929
    edited January 2019

    HHusky said:

    I should have the choice to use private insurance and if they say no I should have the choice to pay cash

    All of which the storm troopers on the left need to eliminate to take all the money and be worse than insurance

    And yes Canadians flood Seattle hospitals due to long waits. And yes government care by definition will have "death panels" just like Insurance does. The difference being there is no other option

    At least we agree that there’s no system that can just perpetually say Yes to every treatment.

    I’ve completely missed the “flood of Canadians” to Seattle hospitals. Hyperbole much?
    Once again you nailed something not in question but you missed the part about how in non mandated society you can pay for it yourself something Harris wants to eliminate

    My wife worked at VM for 20 years
    I didn’t miss it. There are arguments for both positions.

    I expect your wife encountered Canadians. Our borders are terribly porous, I’m told. Your claim was bigger than that.
  • allpurpleallgold
    allpurpleallgold Member Posts: 8,771


    I’m still skeptical of her but this is a huge step in the right direction.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,019 Founders Club



    I’m still skeptical of her but this is a huge step in the right direction.

    This is why you're my favorite classy communist. You own it
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,019 Founders Club
    HHusky said:

    HHusky said:

    I should have the choice to use private insurance and if they say no I should have the choice to pay cash

    All of which the storm troopers on the left need to eliminate to take all the money and be worse than insurance

    And yes Canadians flood Seattle hospitals due to long waits. And yes government care by definition will have "death panels" just like Insurance does. The difference being there is no other option

    At least we agree that there’s no system that can just perpetually say Yes to every treatment.

    I’ve completely missed the “flood of Canadians” to Seattle hospitals. Hyperbole much?
    Once again you nailed something not in question but you missed the part about how in non mandated society you can pay for it yourself something Harris wants to eliminate

    My wife worked at VM for 20 years
    I didn’t miss it. There are arguments for both positions.

    I expect your wife encountered Canadians. Our borders are terribly porous, I’m told. Your claim was bigger than that.
    There is only one argument for freedom.


    There is a reason it is called a mandate. My way leaves you free to enlist in the military and get shitty government healthcare while those of us who choose private insurance or cash are free to do so

    Harris and your ilk require us all to get in line. Example 207 of the death of liberalism in America
  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 23,929
    You just informed me in another thread of your desire for a massive expansion of censorship. Limits on freedom exist in every society.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,019 Founders Club
    HHusky said:

    You just informed me in another thread of your desire for a massive expansion of censorship. Limits on freedom exist in every society.

    You just missed the point in another thread by a country fucking mile
  • UW_Doog_Bot
    UW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,156 Founders Club

    HHusky said:

    You just informed me in another thread of your desire for a massive expansion of censorship. Limits on freedom exist in every society.

    You just missed the point in another thread by a country fucking mile
    I think there's a HH copypasta for that.
  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,097

    My doctor was giving me shit about insurance today. I said we really don't want to go there

    70$ cop pay and 60 bucks of pills cash. I think I'm up to 3 or 4 grand a month for insurance thanks to all the fixing that has happened

    He's like you're 62 now and you need it. I said I don't need a cabinet full of drugs like you did to my mom because she was old

    He also told me I am going to have a stroke so I relented to some high blood pressure medicine

    If I disappear you know why

    62? I think you're doing well since you can remember details of a doctor visit from 40 years ago
    That's in dog years. Uncle @RaceBannon is really 469 years old.

  • UW_Doog_Bot
    UW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,156 Founders Club

    Find me someone that has a good experience dealing with their health insurer

    Mine was awesome until about 2010. But I didn’t get to keep it.
    Mine was also awesome until about 2014 and then the price of it skyrocketed. $70 initially, ditched it at $500 a month, it's now well over $1k a month for the same insurance.

  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,019 Founders Club

    Find me someone that has a good experience dealing with their health insurer

    Mine was awesome until about 2010. But I didn’t get to keep it.
    Mine was also awesome until about 2014 and then the price of it skyrocketed. $70 initially, ditched it at $500 a month, it's now well over $1k a month for the same insurance.

    And you're young

    Mine was a "free" as you could get because my employer paid for it. That went out the window

    All so we could move a few million off of one government program to another and claim victory
  • UW_Doog_Bot
    UW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,156 Founders Club

    Find me someone that has a good experience dealing with their health insurer

    Mine was awesome until about 2010. But I didn’t get to keep it.
    Mine was also awesome until about 2014 and then the price of it skyrocketed. $70 initially, ditched it at $500 a month, it's now well over $1k a month for the same insurance.

    And you're young

    Mine was a "free" as you could get because my employer paid for it. That went out the window

    All so we could move a few million off of one government program to another and claim victory
    Luckily my employer stepped up to the plate(privately owned company) and gave us great insurance(for now). $20k bill for my daughter's delivery. Paid $150 total.

    Of course, that has effectively locked me into my employer and ended my labor mobility(which I'm sure the president knew when he ponied up for the insurance, smart guy).
  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,662

    Find me someone that has a good experience dealing with their health insurer

    Mine was awesome until about 2010. But I didn’t get to keep it.
    Mine was also awesome until about 2014 and then the price of it skyrocketed. $70 initially, ditched it at $500 a month, it's now well over $1k a month for the same insurance.

    And you're young

    Mine was a "free" as you could get because my employer paid for it. That went out the window

    All so we could move a few million off of one government program to another and claim victory
    Luckily my employer stepped up to the plate(privately owned company) and gave us great insurance(for now). $20k bill for my daughter's delivery. Paid $150 total.

    Of course, that has effectively locked me into my employer and ended my labor mobility(which I'm sure the president knew when he ponied up for the insurance, smart guy).
    Eh. I think if most owners/executives could do away with healthcare being at all the company's responsibility they would
  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,739 Founders Club



    I’m still skeptical of her but this is a huge step in the right direction.

    This is why you're my favorite classy communist. You own it
    Agree completely. I disagree with APAG on piles of shit politically, but I respect the fact that he owns his positions, defends them, and doesn't whine like a bitch all the time like most of the other democratic socialists here.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,019 Founders Club

    Find me someone that has a good experience dealing with their health insurer

    Mine was awesome until about 2010. But I didn’t get to keep it.
    Mine was also awesome until about 2014 and then the price of it skyrocketed. $70 initially, ditched it at $500 a month, it's now well over $1k a month for the same insurance.

    And you're young

    Mine was a "free" as you could get because my employer paid for it. That went out the window

    All so we could move a few million off of one government program to another and claim victory
    Luckily my employer stepped up to the plate(privately owned company) and gave us great insurance(for now). $20k bill for my daughter's delivery. Paid $150 total.

    Of course, that has effectively locked me into my employer and ended my labor mobility(which I'm sure the president knew when he ponied up for the insurance, smart guy).
    Eh. I think if most owners/executives could do away with healthcare being at all the company's responsibility they would
    A lot of them have. @UW_Doog_Bot and I were worth it. There comes a time when it isn't

    I used to have the whole family covered and paid for by the boss. If I had stayed there we'd probably go 50/50 on the cost for me alone
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457

    Find me someone that has a good experience dealing with their health insurer

    Mine was awesome until about 2010. But I didn’t get to keep it.
    Mine was also awesome until about 2014 and then the price of it skyrocketed. $70 initially, ditched it at $500 a month, it's now well over $1k a month for the same insurance.

    And you're young

    Mine was a "free" as you could get because my employer paid for it. That went out the window

    All so we could move a few million off of one government program to another and claim victory
    Luckily my employer stepped up to the plate(privately owned company) and gave us great insurance(for now). $20k bill for my daughter's delivery. Paid $150 total.

    Of course, that has effectively locked me into my employer and ended my labor mobility(which I'm sure the president knew when he ponied up for the insurance, smart guy).
    Eh. I think if most owners/executives could do away with healthcare being at all the company's responsibility they would
    A lot of them have. @UW_Doog_Bot and I were worth it. There comes a time when it isn't

    I used to have the whole family covered and paid for by the boss. If I had stayed there we'd probably go 50/50 on the cost for me alone
    This is exactly why we should go to Medicare for all. Businesses need to find a way to profit more every year. And one way is to cut benefits from their workers.

    El oh El at Canadians flooding to hospitals in Seattle. Reminds me of Bob's claim that he sits in the ER for hours with a bunch of illegals.