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Ask me: We need public option health care
Ask me: We need public option health care
Date published: 11/10/2009 Ask me: We need public option health care Last December, I saw my doctor with what I thought was flu. She sent me straight to the emergency room. My appendix had ruptured. The ER folks gave me priority, and it took "only" four hours to be seen by a doctor. I spent four hours waiting, in pain, with a life-threatening condition. After the emergency room, though, I received great care--a competent surgeon, incredible nurses, a clean and comfortable room. At the end of a week, my bills totaled about $30,000. I am a small business owner. Health insurance totals 20 percent of my net income. It's a catastrophic policy--$3,000 deductible, and then my policy pays between 50 percent and 80 percent of the remaining "allowable" charges. The rest, including office visits and tests my doctor orders, Bottom line: I owe Mary Washington Hospital, my surgeon, a couple of radiologists, an emergency-room doctor, the emergency room itself, an anesthesiologist, and several other medical entities $7,000. Additionally, every time It'll be 11 years before I've paid off my appendectomy. Stupid me. What was I thinking, allowing that little sucker to burst! As one who carries health insurance, I am nevertheless awash in medical debt. I desperately hope the health care reform package includes a public option. Megan Hicks Fredericksburg
Date published: 11/10/2009
leclare , One More Thing
(posted by
Olivia55
, Nov. 13, 2009 8:33 pm)
There is no proof that Iraq had anything to do with 9/11. If you have prrof on that statement, I would like to see it. Al Qaeda terrorists were responsible and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the animal we are putting on trial in New York, was one of the masterminds. And, the last I knew, we are still looking for Bin Laden? Now, you might believe Iraq was harboring terrorists but to say they attacked us is not true. (Or did Hannity claim that to??)
slarrivee - You are right. leclare - What?
(posted by
Olivia55
, Nov. 13, 2009 8:20 pm)
I was wrong. When Kennedy died in '63 we only had 1,600 advisors in Viet Nam. leclare - Thank for the quote from Hannity, a stellar historian & bearer of all truth. I believe the WMD never were in Iraq at all. But Huissain would never say that because he was scared of Iran who he knew was on ther verge of having them. He would never admit he was a "paper tiger" to his enemy. If they had found the WMD you could bet that Bush would have yelled it from the roof tops, especially when his polls hit 20%.
Olivia55 ??? 1963 ????
(posted by
slarrivee
, Nov. 13, 2009 12:52 pm)
We were involved in Vietnam in one form or another since the end of WWII aiding the French and finally taking the fight over from them. We can't mind our own business ...Remember also we put the Shah in power in Iran helped Hussein to power in Iraq and in his war with Iran, Bin Laden and friends in their fight against the Russians in Afghanistan years ago and that too has come back to bite us in the butt. But we won't mess with Castro because he will kick out butts too and he's too close.
Olivia55,
(posted by
leclare
, Nov. 13, 2009 11:37 am)
My neighbor, a military man from way back, said that after Iraq destroyed the twin towers and hit the Pentagon, with their 19 men eluding our stealth fighter-bomber jets through their use of stealth box cutters equipped with the latest tecnology, we then attacked Iraq, found the WMDs (Sean Hannity, many times on his radio show), and proved Geo. W. was a genius. I guess we should rethink the usual criticisms of the Iraq war, Bush, and the Domino Theory.
But some things never change Mandrake...
(posted by
Olivia55
, Nov. 13, 2009 9:45 am)
I should have added that in '63 we started involvement in Viet Nam. A war that should never happened in a place we should not have been. Sort of like now in Iraq......some things never change...... Mandrake, you really should stop watching Leave it to Beaver. It gives one a distorted view of those times.
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