With the current state of my health, I cannot move thousands of miles away from my family.

And you prescription insurance sounds too good to be true. Some organization is going to knowingly provide me with tens of thousands of dollars of medication for only a few hundred dollars? (Speaking per year here.) They know going in that my medications will be that much of a liability.

Who is operating this program? How do I find it? No one I have talked to has mentioned anything like this.

Really, the old saw about if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is is my overwhelming reaction.

I currently cannot get private health insurance, because my condition is pre-existing, incurable, and requires medications that are overpriced at tens of thousands of dollars a year.

Is your plan gonna cover me? Sorry, but I don't believe it will. It might cut into the half-billion dollar salaries that insurance CEOs earn by denying care.

Convince me that private companies will offer me coverage, or there is a screaming need for a public option.

typicalboss wrote:

I think Universal Health coverage is broadly supported, just not within a public system.

How do you get it in a private system? Seriously, I am not being snarky, I don't see an answer.

Do you see an answer? If so, what is it?

At this point, I don't give a damn how it happens, I just need it to happen so I can go back to work!

gojackets wrote:

Anyway, I hate to break it to you guys, but insurance companies are not all in some evil corporate regime out to kill people. They do not make out-of-this-world profits and some, such as Kaiser, are not-for-profit. The issue is they operate in a cutthroat market and these horrific tactics come from all the wrong incentives.

Here is a link to a WebMD blog post written in 2007:

http://blogs.webmd.com/mad-about-medicine/2007/08/ceo-compensation-who-said-healthcare-is.html

Those numbers look pretty out-of-this-world to me.

Rosalind Franklin didn't get the Nobel Prize because Nobel Prizes are not awarded posthumously. She died four years before Crick, Watson, and Wilkins were awarded the prize in 1962.

So your point is what, exactly?

When I went to gay bars with my friends in the early 80s, I was strenuously warned not to hit on the fag hags. I was told that they were there to be safe in public and not have to fend off male advances.

I was told that I would get the crap beaten out of me if I made one of the fag hags unhappy.

I guess this is apropos of nothing, but some writer implied that he made sexual connections with these women, and that is the opposite of my experience.

When they had the House and Senate and White House, they rammed through whatever they wanted, no matter what anyone else thought.

Now that Democrats have the House and Senate and White House, they demand a completely different standard.

And the saddest thing is that they might succeed.

Corporations are "legally" stealing billions (trilions?) of dollars from average Americans. Obama is trying (horribly ineptly) to reduce the theft just a tiny bit. And he is "creating a civil war by "a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms."

But during eight years of Bush actually curbing our true freedoms, not a peep of protest. In fact, there was raucous cheering and strong support.

The fact that this nonsense isn't laughed out of the universe is a severe indictment of the listening and critical thinking skills of the American public. I have given up hope. I just want to avoid getting crushed in the inevitable collapse.

He needed to start from the extreme position of dissolving all private health care and having a single-payer system, then bargained down to private insurance with a public option. This is employing standard bargaining technique, no matter what you are trying to bargain for.

Instead he started from a compromised position, which of course he was forced to retreat even further from. Any flea market bargainer knows that you don't start from where you want to end up.

Now I am almost certainly screwed out of health care, because my pre-existing condition will prevent me from ever getting coverage. Even if coverage is mandated, private insurers will charge me a rate I will never be able to afford to pay.

What a stupid stupid stupid strategy that will cause my quality of life to be in the toilet for the rest of my life.

Thanks for nothing, you idiot.

Oh, I dunno, the Constitution's side, maybe?

Driving home today, I saw a panhandler at the end of a freeway off-ramp. Don't wanna be fighting him for his spot next year.

What else can you expect except that the weak and cowardly and clueless will go to a liberal news site and dance and sing now that he is dead.

I have had stupid bosses. I have had bosses who are liars. But I hesitate to believe that being a stupid liar is typical of all bosses. Maybe I am just naive.

Clearly though, typicalboss wants us to conclude that being a stupid liar is typical of all bosses.

Only tens of millions of people, including a majority of the voters here in Oklahoma.