Comments on: Sick Over Health Care Reform? Ryn Cricket Is.

By: Nicole Hadaway

Nicole Hadaway — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:11:41 +0000

This is a tough one, because health insurance is unlike all other insurances out there today. When do you rely on car insurance? When you’re in an accident, which is (hopefully) not a regular occurrence. You don’t expect your auto insurance to pay for routine maintenance or fuel costs. The same for home insurance — you don’t charge the maintenance costs of cleaning supplies, lawncare, etc. to your home insurance.

Yet health insurance is supposed to pay for the bulk of medical costs, all the way from routine checkups, prescription medicines, to major illnesses or babies. And the fact of economics is — There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. Somebody has to pay those costs somewhere.

I remember when I lived in Europe, I was totally shocked to find that you had to ask the pharmacist for items such as tylenol and ibuprophen. The pharmacy hours were limited; closed at noon, open at 2, and closed at 6 or 7. There was only one 24 hour pharmacy open for emergencies, and that could be across town. It wasn’t like you could run and pluck Children’s Tylenol off the shelf at 2am at the Walgreen’s down the street when your sick child was running fever.

The current system is no doubt flawed, and costs are skyrocketing. Not to mention you cannot get treatment if you have no insurance, or even if you’re not a regular patient of a certain doctor (thanks, med. malpractice lawyers!). Yet there is no easy fix and looking at other cultures, one must consider the Entire Culture, not just its health care system.

By: Hazar Worth

Hazar Worth — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:00:32 +0000

The problem with this culture stems from two perfect tides:

A) The tide of Capitalist as interpreted by the keepers at the gates collecting the profits;
B) The tide of Religion as interpreted by the keepers at the gates collecting the tolls for control and manipulation

Put these two tides together, and you have a misguided system that honors profits and hypocrisy over long-term sustainability that would perpetuate many generations of truly spiritual individuals who were intelligent, insightful, and influential. But as Ryn’s article was adept at pointing out in clearly concise language and knowledge, Greed (the True God of this ‘Christian’ nation..) remains the high King that denies the humane effort to provide health to all who resides upon the soils of the ‘Land of the Free; Home of the Brave’….

And while men and women die on foreign soils to secure our ‘freedoms’, the Pols continues to deny true freedoms in providing basic health care for men, women, and children….

Should the Pols carry us to Afghanistan where we could be kindly sacrificed instead of being strung on like we are being strung out ? Strung out on broken promises by well groomed talking heads that are careerist at best, and ignorant at worst…

By: Vincent Allen

Vincent Allen — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:05:16 +0000

This situation makes me ill just to think about it. My son lost his job last year and his medical insurance along with it and he suffers from gout an d migraine headaches and has been reduced to self-diagnosis and self-treatments with over the counter medications and does not have any prospects for long-term improvement in his condition. His wife has chronic toothaches and also cannot get treatment despite constant pain and discomfort. These are both people that would be working and contributing to the economy if they could find a decent job so they could do that. The healthcare system in this country should not be based on whether or not somebody can afford insurance, rather, it should be based on the medical needs of the individual. Imagine how much money would be available for healthcare and education if we were not mire in fighting two ill-conceived wars that fly in the face of lessons learned by other countries throughout the history of the region in which we are fighting.