Medical Bills Are Killing Us

I'm about to shell out nearly $300 for my insurance, monthly bill. I haven't received a dime of service from it in over two years, and before that I received no benefit from the service. I'd go see a doctor and get big bills for tests that said I was healthy. They wanted to keep testing, eventually I said no.

I hate paying this bill. I consider it a slow form of financial death that will probably kill me faster than smoking would. But I lack the courage to stop paying it. Can anyone inspire me?

I'm lucky, I'm healthy. Very grateful to be. Nevertheless, I object to the financial execution that health insurance is. It's a tool used to enslave us. Who doesn't know someone that works a shitty job just for health insurance? By the end of 2013, if I'm lucky, that's where I'll be; working a shit job so that mandated health expenses don't put me on the street. My provider, who I've stopped seeing (obvious reason$) gets Medicaid free.

It's not Obama's fault; I feel it's the overpaid executives AND those who live near them, are aware of their undeserved salaries, and benefit from it.

Somewhere on these very pages BC/BS money is banging whores with money I consider stolen from me.

cut the pharmacies out of it
and well have some nice healthy plans for everyone
too much money at the top and we pay for it
if u smellalallallal
what im cookin

That is working real good right now at the gas pumps, eh??? Originally Posted by Celso

you do know that the US and Canada have most of the known oil. yet gov has done its best to stop drilling in US and fighting letting more Canadian oil in.

Greed I agree. unregulated I do not. see cowboy posts 23 and 24 Originally Posted by offshoredrilling

Yep and those lobbyists are nothing more than well paid whores of these powerful interests that need reigning in! These powerful interests fear their days of obscene pay and bonus' may be ended, so they hire these corporate whore lobbyists to do their bidding.

you do know that the US and Canada have most of the known oil. yet gov has done its best to stop drilling in US and fighting letting more Canadian oil in. Originally Posted by offshoredrilling

Please, that's just Big Oil poppycock used to get away with ripping us all off.

Big Oil loves deregulation which allows them to jack us up at the pump now for ANY reason they can pull out of their ass!

no and its not poppycock imho

And when the price of gas goes up. just who also gets more cash on hand also. mmmmmm gee the government. Big gov wants high price gas. now fed workers has been going down per capita. But the price of them workers and others thing each department spends the money on needs to go down without pushing the bill down to the state level, and then state down to the local level.

NYS is no longer the Empire State. but it could be again. yet I can see it returning to former glory. I can see it being a welfare state on welfare, almost is now. part of the problem NYS over spending. Company's still here want to be on the tit also. mmm right now I can't think of a sports team that is not on the tit in NY. errrr I have to check on that.

its all fixed, they passed the bill, in 2014 we will be living in paradise and the R's didnt screw anything up by voting for it. Originally Posted by DomCapers

Are you capable of more snide one sentence posts?

you do know that the US and Canada have most of the known oil. yet gov has done its best to stop drilling in US and fighting letting more Canadian oil in. Originally Posted by offshoredrilling

Both parties get the blame for that. We should have started building more refineries and increased oil exploration 30 years ago. No reason not to except for the environmentalists. Now I'm not saying that would result in lower prices at the pumps but at least we would be less dependent on foreign oil.

you think the average person is going to have input? oh, that wasnt mokery Originally Posted by DomCapers

sorry, but seemed like "mokery" to me..

maybe its best your leaving.

and yah, the average person will have some say

sorry, but seemed like "mokery" to me..

maybe its best your leaving.

and yah, the average person will have some say Originally Posted by JONBALLS

excuse me?.......... are you refering to me?

excuse me?.......... are you refering to me? Originally Posted by DomCapers

UH ,,,YAH, thats why your quoted ,, what a dumb fuck

Are you capable of more snide one sentence posts? Originally Posted by drluv1

I find this person to be rude and obnoxious and frankly I cannot WAIT to see him gone , right on dr luv!

UH ,,,YAH, thats why your quoted ,, what a dumb fuck Originally Posted by JONBALLS

I find this person to be rude and obnoxious and cannot WAIT to see him gone ...........AGAIN!

If you have the time and patience, I highly recommend the excellent article in Time Magazine on why medical costs are out of control in this country. No matter where you stand on healthcare reform, it shows clearly that doing nothing is not an option. Originally Posted by jackfengshui

If we had a single payer plan, a multitude of problems would be addressed and at least partially if not completely corrected. Health care costs are out of control and we will never have a balanced budget nor reduce/eliminate the national debt until we rein in health care costs, and the only way that's gonna happen is with the implementation of a single payer plan.

I find this person to be rude and obnoxious and cannot WAIT to see him gone ...........AGAIN! Originally Posted by drluv1

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