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Commenting on Michael Moore and Health Care on the Stuart News site:

To LDouglas: Moore's "Sicko" is worth your time. He takes some of our 9-11 responders, who couldn't prove they really worked at the site, to Cuba, for health care. Also, an old British guy explains: we noticed during WWII we had full employment. So we figured out that spending the money on health care, education,& infrastructure, like we did on War, would also mean full employment. I sure hope America figures that out.

http://sickforprofit.com/ceos/ shows the CEO of the health ins. co. that gets paid by taxpayers to "manage" my Medicare, for 14% more than if I had chosen original medicare. One of his bureaucrats called last night, wanting me to explain why I didn't go to a network hospital for my surgery 6 months ago. I did; my network dr said "it would have been a bloodbath" if he had continued the emergency bronchoscopy at the network hospital. He ordered an ambulance to take me to the Univ. of FL hospital-Shands. No, I've never smoked anything, had never been in a hospital except for 1 day at childbirth, and have never been fat. I had gone to my network dr. , coughing up blood, on Feb.16. It took until March 19 to get a bronchoscopy scheduled. I didn't make it that long. The Friday before, thicker, oxygenated blood starts coming up. There's more of it, and more often. If I had been able to proceed with the non-network lung specialist I found Feb. 18th, who had scheduled a broncho the following week, would all this have cost taxpayers less?

We'll never know, because the health ins. comp. told me I would have to pay 20% not just of the non-network dr.'s bill, but also of every test, the broncho, hosp, etc. That scared us. So we went thru the network, waiting at every step. I'm lucky to be alive. It was a shock to see how little the surgeon received, and how his and the hospital fees were "adjusted" by the health ins. company. How a "Christian" nation, and esp. the party that claims to value "life" the most, fights to keep this tight-fisted, suspicious, convoluted form of delivering health care services, I do not understand

Labels: Get clear on Health Care, Michael Moore, my surgery