Sicko…
I finally sat down and watched the Michael Moore documentary, Sicko, today. And even though it may have been a bit unbalanced in its portrail of Canada’s, England’s, France’s, and Cuba’s health care system, it really does strike home a very hard point about our failing health care system. It’s really sad to see that Cuba can give better health care than we do if you don’t have insurance. It’s also sad to see the stuff the insurance companies try to pull so they don’t have to pay. I’ve seen it myself. For the years I was in college, I couldn’t get health insurance because I had an extremely common condition that was nowhere near life threatening. Instead of just refusing payment on anything related to this condition, they flat out denied me coverage for everything. Luckily I didn’t get sick during that time, and the condition I had disappeared on its own. It could have been bad. And then, fast forwarding a few years later, I finally do get health insurance. However, the first major thing they had to pay for (a head MRI), they cited some sort of pre-existing condition that was nothing with nothing and refused to pay. After fighting with them, they finally paid out. I personally hope they don’t try to wiggle out of paying for my gallbladder surgery, but then again, I have a $4,000 deductible, so I probably will be ending up paying for the whole thing anyway. Between this and everything else that is wrong with this country, it really makes me wonder if I really want to stay here and pay taxes to this government. Canada seems all the more inviting…
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