Re: medical insurance RANT - CAUTION
The largest abuses in our medical system do not come from the "leeches on society" that you speak of who go to the ER for care. I agree that there are people whose parents did not bring them up with very good values... and getting something for free seems to be the way many people choose to live these days.
However, to me, the REAL leeches on society are the pharmaceutical companies who poison us with their chemicals, then charge us lascivious amounts to treat the "dis" eases they cause! Diseases like cancer, diabetes, liver and kidney disease, colitis, and even Parkinson's are often (and in my opinion ALWAYS) caused by exposure to dangerous environmental factors.
Some of the leeches on society are those who bleat "baaaahhhh" and buy in to the need for medical insurance at all! If people would stand up and just say "NO!" to $20 sanitary napkins and $30 for a single aspirin, there would be no need for insurance! If a company was not allowed to charge my mother in law $$$$ FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS A MONTH for one pill she MUST TAKE each day...$$$ONE HUNDRED THIRTY DOLLARS PER PILL!!!!!!.... she would have no need for medical insurance! The medical insurance business is in cahoots with the pharmaceutical businesses, who are in cahoots with the hospitals, doctors, and government. The same people who work for Monsanto are in charge of our food supply.. Somebody better start following the threads...
There is plenty of evidence.. people just don't seem to care.. they've been brainwashed to believe that the government will take care of us... and if you think that those in charge want to put a STOP to those "leeches" going to the ER for their treatment, you are way wrong. That is the biggest smokescreen in America!
Those in charge WANT YOU TO BE SICK. Illness is big business.
Those in charge DO NOT WANT a cure for cancer... cancer is HUGE business.
Do you remember a time when there were no pharmaceutical ads on television?
Have you WATCHED those ads lately?
They have a beautiful smiling woman telling you to "Ask your doctor if this drug is right for you" while they list in tiny letters at the bottom all the ways the pill can kill you!
Wake up, people!
If people would refuse to eat poisoned food, drink poisoned water, use poison on their skin, and get off their butts and exercise, many of them would not get sick to begin with.
If the price of medical care was realistic, people wouldn't need medical insurance.
Cancer is BIG BUSINESS in the United States, and if you follow the thread, you'll find that the companies making the big bucks on their $5000 per month-1 pill per day- cancer treatments are the same companies poisoning our water, air, food supply, and bodies with their dangerous chemical cocktails like Febreze, Round-up, and all the crap people eat and slather on themselves that we've been brainwashed into believing is necessary.
Those companies put farmers out of business with their on-staff attorneys so we are FORCED to eat GE foods that have not been tested, chemically laced vegetables that wind-pollinate and ruin organic fields nearby (then they sue the organic farmer for "stealing" their genetic material), destroy seed-cleaning equipment that used to be found on nearly every farm so farmers are FORCED to buy their sterile terminator seed.
They offer "Care packages" to third world countries consisting of their nasty seed and those poor people are TRICKED into using it... once they discover the seed does not produce it's own viable seed, it's too late.. it's cross-pollinated local fields.
They offer "LOANS" to poor farmers in India and other poor countries to start "farms" then keep them in debt until the farmers commit suicide when they realize they're in a trap. They offer to "PAY" student loans for physicians, and then from that day forward, the physician is in their pocket... they do the same in Washington DC, current administration included.
I grew up on a farm and was poisoned by these chemicals to the point that I can no longer be around them. Therefore, I cannot get a job in an office or in ANY space where these chemicals are being used. Exposure (because of my body already being overburdened) leads to IMMEDIATE joint swelling, severe pain, brain fog, headache, then migraine, vomiting, and inability to function.
As a result, I'm forced to make my living doing sewing at home, housecleaning without chemicals, and doing fiber arts. Lucky for me, I enjoy those things, but I survive on less than $10,000 per year and I refuse to pay for insurance out of that money. Instead, I'll spend $1000 per month (a little more than what I live comfortably on in Portland) and WALK for my health.
And since you mentioned the airfare, it so happens that I also teach classes in metaphysics and my airfare is paid by my students, who live in Wales.
Buy medical insurance?
NO THANK YOU!
Insurance is also big business. They make deals with the hospitals to pay less than cash-paying patrons. What's that about? Why should someone with MORE money pay LESS than someone with less money? I'm sorry.. that does not compute.
I will NEVER pay for medical insurance.. NEVER.
You go ahead and buy it. I will use MY little bit of money to pay for good, clean organic foods, local foods, clean water, and exercise like walking the Camino to keep myself OUT of the hospital!