[Vision2020] Do You Want Wall Street to Control Your Health Care?

[Glenn Schwaller]

Well goodie - so the question still remains:  how can Joe Citizen get
your health care bundle without adding over a trillion dollars to the
national debt?

GS

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Tom Hansen<thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
> GS stated:
>
> "Well for one, the most typical health care plan for all federal
> employees is a Blue Cross preferred provider."
>
> I don't know where you got this Blue Cross reference as the "typical
> health care plan for all federal employees", GS.
>
> You're wrong, unless you discount the federal employees in military
> uniform, and those who have retired from the military (such as myself).
> Their (and my) coverage is provided by Tri-Care.
>
> Jus' to give ya a "fer instance":  I had a double hernia operation a few
> years back (right here in Vandalville under the fine care of those great
> people at Gritman).  The total bill came to just under $25,000.  My
> out-of-pocket expenses amounted to just over $500 (five hundred dollars).
>
> And another "fer instance":  Back in '06, my spouse experienced a severe
> case of pneumonia, reducing her to 30% lung capacity.  The treatment,
> care, and tons and tons of extras (6 days in ICU and 10 days in CCU) came
> to just over $65,000.  My out-of-pocket expenses amounted to just over
> $1,400 (one thousand, four hundred dollars).
>
> When our benefits exceeded the annual catastrophic cap of $3,000 (three
> thousand dollars), my spouse's prescriptions were  free (zero dollars) for
> the remainder of that fiscal year.
>
> During all those other years, the ones where we did not exceed the annual
> catastrophic cap, our co-pay prescriptions amounted to no more than $9
> (nine dollars) each, most oftne $3 (three dollars) or $6 (six dollars)..
>
> And . . . don't even get me started on supplementary at-home medical
> equipment, like portable oxygen concentrators . . .
>
> Check it out, GS . . .
>
> "Tri-Care"
> http://www.tricare.mil/mybenefit/
>
> Not bad for socialized medicine, huh?
>
> Seeya round town, Moscow, and a SUPER "thumbs up" to those great guys at
> Gritman.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
> and the Realist adjusts his sails."
>
> - Unknown
>
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