By Catherine Haig.
THE PROBLEM WITH MEDICINE TODAY IN AMERICA IS
THEY WANT TO SELL THEIR PILLS – THAT BRING MORE PROBLEMS SO THAT THE PATIENT HAS TO TAKE A LOT OF PILLS TO GET RID OF THE SIDE EFFECTS AND HE BECOMES AN ADDICT. THIS IS THEIR MAIN GOAL.
I AM SURE THAT THERE IS A CURE FOR CANCER BUT WE’LL NEVER SEE IT AS LONG AS MEDICAL INSURANCE COMPANIES DICTATE TO DOCTORS AND HOSPITALS – THEY DON’T WANT TO CURE ANYONE – THEY WANT TO MAKE TRILLIONS OFF SICK SICK PEOPLE.
WHAT PRICE IS YOUR PRICE FOR YOUR LIFE – OR HOW MUCH IS YOUR LIFE WORTH TO YOU?
MY LATE MOTHER MADE THAT CHOICE – SHE DIED IN 1 YEAR AND 1 WEEK.
The bureaucrates that run these companies dictate to the doctors and to the patients
Without knowing the particulars in each case.
The problem with dictating policy as a blanket cure all is that no two patients problems are exactly alike
So if that is true then how can Medical Insurance Companies tell a patient that needs a certain procedure
That they can’t have it performed because it will cost too much money and their HMO ie: insurance company refuses to pay
In turn the Doctor’s hands are tied because they are in the business of making money and will do NOTHING FOR FREE.
People who get sick and are dictated to by HMO’s and the insurance companies that manage them are fucked.
America is being managed by insurance companies who look at the bottom line. Sure these companies have their own doctors and lawyers who are paid by them to give a blanket recommendation.
I have an abscess on the gum of one of my teeth that has a root canal on it. I have no dental insurance so I had to get a “plan”. I got a plan from a company called CAREINGTON who have participating dentists all over the greater NYC area. The abscess is painful just a little bit but if it bursts and goes into my bloodstream it could kill me – the bacteria could go to my brain and kill me.
I ordered the CAREINGTON PLAN and with it a vision and prescription discount plan – I got all of it but not the prescription plan and have been waiting 3 weeks for a card that never came. Friday 2/22/13 I called for the card again and they tell me that the office that participates in the plan never sent it so they gave me a “temp card” but now I have to wait until Monday 2/25/13 to get my name in their MED IMPACT system so that I won’t have to pay WALMART $75 bucks or QUICK CHECK $130 bucks. For Med Impact my name goes into their system within 24 hours so I’m looking at Monday for coverage and coverage is not payment of the entire expensive medicine that costs $33 a pill! I have 33 pills to take – it’s for half price generic which will be $60 dollars supposedly.
TODAY IS SATURDAY – THE MEDICAL CARDS FOR THE SCRIPTS CAME AND I GOT MY MEDS – THEY ARE GENERIC SO WITH THE SCRIPT CARD AND THE $5 ANNUAL PLAN FROM QUICK CHECK BILL CAME TO $85.06 ON MY CREDIT CARD. That’s 35 % of the original bill of $121 for the meds and they are generic. I hope they work.
This is not medical help – this is total bullshit and Obama’s plan won’t be any good either. The point here is that no one can get sick. If you do you’re totally screwed. So I have to exercise, not get hurt and just keep pulling teeth I have pain in whenever I do have pain. This is not a good plan cause any of these stuff can kill you.
Why do we have to be so concerned with money? Why can’t doctors do what they have swore to do ? Help people whether or not they are being paid?
Rich people have concierge medicine where the doctor’s don’t accept Medical insurance plans or Government programs – they own their doctors and hospitals for x amount of money per year and that is in the thousands. Look what happened to Michael Jackson – he had concierge medicine and that doctor is in jail now for murdering him.
If a guy like Michael Jackson could not get the help he needed – what does that say for the rest of us? The prognosis is NOT GOOD people. It’s not good. Obama has not done right by the people of America with this “AFFORDABLE CARE ACT” and I have no idea what is going on and how I’m going to get on it or what it will do for me when I am eligible.
My partner is having problems with her pain medicine doctor who is under investigation with the DEA for some reason or another. She sees him every month and some sessions are okay but he always counts her pills. She’s 57 years old and this 46 year old motherfucker with a medical degree counts her pills and if one pill is missing he scolds her and berates her and all I want to do is break his neck.
She is in the process of leaving his practice because she lost one of her opiates (pill) and he is still harping on it and he does not believe that she lost it in the house – which she has done. Her hands shake because of her illness. She told me that the worst thing she did was tell him she is a musician because now he wants to cut her medicine back instead of increasing it because he thinks she is drug seeking which is not true.
She’s been with this doctor for a year and it’s been hell. I still have not been able to buy the pills I need to bring down the swelling in my gum and I hated the “brighter dental” doctor (a black as coal Indian American) who had no sympathy once I expressed anger about how the first Russian POS that irrigated the infected tooth back in NYC. After I said I wanted to sue that POS, this Indian dentist lost interest in helping me.
The medical profession in America sucks.
The insurance profession in America sucks and rides the medical profession into the ground.
Doctors listen to medical salesmen and push their drugs for free dinners, airline tickets and perks to foreign countries. It’s a bit like the Lobbyists in Washington feting our Congress who do their bidding instead of the people’s.
AND
THIS
HAS
GOT
TO
STOP!
Other countries have free medical and dental programs. Yeah, they are not the best in the world and it’s an imperfect situation and an imperfect world but it’s at least something. People are not dying like they are in America from lack of health care. Hospitals in America are closing and it’s people and their petty prejudices that enable hatred to linger in this America.
There are atheists living in Georgia who were once Roman Catholic believers who have lost faith in their religion. A friend of a friend was looking for a gathering place where other atheists may go to meet but when she looked online there was nothing. The next door neighbor who she never spoke to hates her because the neighbor is Baptist. Talk about ignorance! Now this woman wants to move but where do you go in the USA that isn’t full of hate?
Boston?
NYC?
NJ?
No where.
There is no where to hide.
This season of AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM took place in a crazy house with it’s ancient morals and the Roman Catholic Church ran it and it was still terrible. Even worse when the state took it over. Lesbians were thought to be diseased and that there was a cure for them and doctors were insane and non caring as the insurance companies are today.
In Ancient Greece Homosexuals were revered and worshiped and being straight was abnormal. Our society is taking turns towards darkness and I believe that is what this show AHS:A is all about – what happened at Briarcliff is happening now in the world and we are watching and are a part of it and are absolutely complacent.
When will society take notice and STOP BEING COMPLACENT?
Why am I writing all of this because it pertains to the medical practices and the lobbyists up to our greedy rotten congress who cares about no one and we the people pay for their medicines, their dental, medical, vision and script and we are going without.
This is outrageous and it’s time for a revolution people.
It’s time to take that pound of flesh
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