america' healthcare nightmare

[cerina]

As I understood it, Medicare would pick up the tab for those who couldn't afford insurance or had been refused for some reason, not that it would cover everyone.





And DB ... why did you need to hire a boat for an MRI scan?

[ghost writer]

In case anyone is still interested - under the new watered down version of healthcare

Beneficiaries must cover the full cost of their medications even while they continue to pay premiums. In 2010, this occurs when the total costs of a beneficiary's prescription drugs reaches $2,830. The co-payments required for brand-name and generic drugs will be phased down to 25 percent by 2020

http://www.ncpssm.org/news/archive/part ... ealth_law/

[cerina]

So, if you need any anti-virals, anti-cancer drugs or a million other medications that cost more than a few cents, you are going to have to pay the full cost? That will increase the bankruptcy/death rates.

[Jack Flash]

Six months after health-care reform passed the government says you must cover children's pre-existing conditions

The insurance companies - No we don't we just won't sell them policies

Katie Couric's Notebook: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-500803_162- ... 00803.html

[cerina]

We already have a generation of children who are likely to die before their parents and the insurance companies seem hell bent on exacerbating that.