We live in such a stupid country.... So freaking stupid..

[busterbrown]

How could we have allowed this to happen?
Everyone is at risk wether you have insurance or not..
If your over 50 and must buy your own insurance, your price for insurance will be off the chart by the time you hit 60.. Healthy, nothing going on will by my estimates, cost close to 2 grand
a month for a single person with a modest deductible.

And the scary part it is that there is no hope.. 25% of the country feel we got this way because it is God”s will... They would rather die than give into the concept of govt. intervention...Based on gerrymandering and current geographic statistics, 25% is enough to prevent anything positive
happening.. I’m just besides myself tonight!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/08/hospital-prices-cost-differences_n_3232678.html?1367985666

[pipoman]

1. Until something happens,

I would suggest looking at something with a much less modest deductible..say $5k...catastrophic health coverage..

[busterbrown]

2. 5 grand won’t be the number in 10 years.. Currently it is $7000, Anthem Blue Cross.

[Egalitarian Thug]

11. To what end? Putting $5K into the pocket of an insurance company for a "product"

that you can't afford to use is worse than having none. The Health Insurance Industry Profit Protection Act is going to cost the party and every American dearly for generations to come.

This is what happens when republicans pretending to be Democrats pass bad republican ideas into law.

[pipoman]

13. Certainly not the best situation, but

if the goal is to get life saving medical care when needed without losing your home, car, retirement, etc..You will not lose those things if a catastrophic illness arises, and you will receive better treatments if you have insurance. Most catastrophic plans have wellness aspects for free annual physicals and some have prescriptions for $5 or some such. The point is, this is the best option for some people. The days of $100 deductibles are gone. Hopefully something better comes along..it aint here now..

[defacto7]

3. I'm with you buster...

It's a sad state of affairs and the human cost is more than is even vaguely necessary. The wealth is there to cover the health of all Americans, it's just funneled into bottomless pits. And those who believe it's gods will have themselves just given up and want to die and go to that happy heaven place they imagine is out there. So they really don't care at all. They just want out of this life and don't realize that this is all there is. They don't care that the rest of the human race needs their help too. Nah... Jesus is coming and I don't have to worry about anything. It's all gods will and I am not allowed to change it, says the loudmouth in the pulpit.

[newfie11]

4. Yep Mexico & Canada have national health care

But here we just can't have socialized medicine.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

5. My theory is that a group of greedy people sat in a bar somewhere and said:

Greedy Person One: "How can we make more money?"

Greedy Person Two: "Well, what does every single person in the country have to do that we could profit from?"

Greedy Person Three: "Everyone goes to the doctor - like when they have the flu"

Greedy Person One: "That's it !! We can create insurance where people pay us and we keep some of that money that they used to pay their doctor !"

Greedy Person Two: "Who would go along with that? Sounds like a scam. How could we get people to buy into that idea?"

Greedy Person Three: "Let's have a couple more shots"

Greedy Person One: " I GOT IT !!! We call it "PREVENTATIVE CARE"

[AZ Progressive]

7. Your probably pretty accurate

Knowing some business people, studying business, and analyzing the Republican party for the past decade, I'm pretty sure that these people laugh at some table as they concoct schemes to make lots of money at the expense of people's lives, and they just use "positive thinking" to ignore the negative effects such schemes would have on other people.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. your last line is interesting - and I never thought about it..but you are right. We genuinely

care about how our actions affect people (of course they mostly help people). They build in "create plan to deal with PR on negative effect" to their project plans. Like negative effects are assumed, taken for granted, and have no emotional impact on them whatsoever.

[smirkymonkey]

6. I am beyond disgusted.

+10,000

[AZ Progressive]

8. It is utter madness, this country truly doesn't make any sense anymore

This is a national disgrace and it's truly amazing how we can live in a country that doesn't make any sense anymore and hasn't for some while.

[Junkdrawer]

10. Imperial military -or- universal healthcare. We can afford one.

3 guesses which will continue to be the priority.

[Initech]

12. Which ever one makes the most profit.

And there's no profit to be made in universal health care.