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Thursday, December 10, 2009
Is paying for health care a struggle?
editor
In an especially tough year
when money is tight, lots of expenses are falling by the wayside.
When health care is among the expenses being postponed or pushed
completely out of a family budget, it's frightening. A quarter
of Americans surveyed in a
Thomas
Reuters study this week said they are struggling to
pay for health care this year. And 17 percent said they have
postponed or delayed medical services or treatments in the past
year.
Baby boomers (born between 1946 and 1964) had more trouble than
younger Americans surveyed, and were most likely to put off medical
care, according to the researchers at the Center for Health
Care Improvement, part of the health care business of Thomson
Reuters. Overall, 40 percent of all households planned to postpone
care in the coming three months, and 15 percent said they would put
off routine doctor visits.
Congress and the Obama Administration are working on expanding
health care for more Americans, but it is an expensive undertaking
in a tough economic climate, and the fix will be not simple nor
soon.
In the meantime, are you having more trouble paying
for health care, or putting off medical visits?
More health care posts on Shine:
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Posted by Angela Thu Jun 25, 2009 10:20pm PDT
LOL Annie, you make me laugh. I've yet to see a single constructive post from you. I don't make blanket statments about entire groups of people I don't know. I treat all the people I've ever worked with as individuals.
There will be abuse of any system. I'm not foolish enough to believe that universal health care will result in some kind of utopia. There's been crime since there's been humans. There always will be.
However, unlike you, I actually try to figure out what people can do and what their limitations are. And when they have limitations, I try to figure out why they have those limitations. I don't just condemn them to being "stupid" or "lazy".
I support universal health care, of course. I also don't care what it costs, because what we have now is costing us too much already. The longer we wait, the more expensive it will be, not just in terms of actual dollars, but in terms of the lives we lose and the people who suffer because they don't have adequate health care.
People taught me how to work, and I am capable of working. Many people are not so fortunate. That doesn't make them any less worthy of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
So, Annie, do you have anything to offer but anger and bitterness? The post of yours that I responded to on the health care blog wasn't "objective", and it certainly wasn't "constructive criticism." It didn't offer solutions in any way.
So, right back atcha, sweet cheeks.
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