Breaking: Time magazine to do hard-hitting exposé on the *under-insured* in America.

[Fridays Child]

Just heard it on the Scar & Hairdo Show.

Oh, wait. Didn't somebody already produce a major documentary on precisely that subject?

Ah, well. I suppose we should be grateful that the press is finally noticing one of the biggest financial crises plaguing the Middle Class and Working Poor. But wouldn't it be something if that positively adorable early morning duo, Joe & Mika™, had given credit to Michael Moore for exposing the issue a couple of years before Time Magazine decided to do it?

Yeah, that happened. :eyes:

Anyway, it's Time's cover story, and so-called insurance expert and journalist Karen Tumulty took on the issue because her brother had a catastrophic illness that put him in the same situation as the subjects of Sicko. I'm sorry for her brother but a whole bunch of equally worthy Americans have been bankrupted by the same problem, while the corporate media have been looking the other way.

:mad:

[WCGreen]

1. Somewhere in the vicinity of 25% of all bankruptcies are caused

by overwhelming medical bills...

[Fridays Child]

6. But, according to our leaders, Americans wouldn't be able to "adjust" to a single payer system.

And I'll bet that a major insurance company contributor or lobbyist can be found in the pocket of each senator or representative who takes that position.

[WCGreen]

7. There in, as Holmes would say, lies the rub...

[stray cat]

2. I didn't think being underinsured needed to be professionally exposed

By Michael Moore or anyone else. The fact of it was well known long before sicko However, attention to it by the media is a good thing.

[K Gardner]

3. I'm in the middle of a squall with my "new" insurance company, that I got through my

new job - a huge conglomerate insurance company who insures the more than 10,000 people who work for my "new" company. I'm healthy, luckily. No medical problems except for a thyroid pill I have taken everyday for the past 20 or so years. Never sick, no chronic conditions, nada.

I pay my premiums every month, out of my paycheck. Went to have my "Annual Well Physical" last week. Got a letter stating they refuse to cover it because of my "preexisting condition."

Oh yeah.. we're going to go round and round on this one. Blood-sucking leeches.

[Kolesar]

5. You may find the answer at familiesusa.org

www.familiesusa.org

[grilled onions]

4. All Coverage Is Welcome

Many think if you have ANY insurance then all is well--HA. I for one have Medicare(disability) but family practice doctors in this area will not take on any new Mecicare patients. YOu can't go to the clinics for the uninsured because technically I HAVE insurance. I can't get supplemental insurance because of my age and round and round it goes. I know one elderly gent who had the same doctor for 30 years but one day his doctor dropped him like yesterdays garbage because he only had Medicare. The un-insured and those that have such paltry coverage deserve an expose to be sure!