My friend, Lynne, has prodded me to open up a live blog on Wednesday night while listening/watching ABC’s informercial for Obama’s health care plan. So if you want to growl and hiss and throw tomatoes stop by Wednesday night a few minutes before 10:00 pm EDT where hopefully someone smart, like Lynn, or involved in health care, like Dana, will be here to say intelligent things. These live blog events have been a lot of fun and I hope this one will be also. It should be a very negative time for all and that always makes good blog fodder.
She has some questions to get the discussion started now.
We have Tricare because of my husband's military service. The Cherub has Tricare and Medicare because of her disabilities. And let me tell you that we had NO option but to enroll her in Medicare if we wanted to keep Tricare. Because she was 'eligible' for it, if we did not enroll, then Tricare simply refused to pay for anything at all. So that costs us an extra hundred dollars a month that it shouldn't have. The military was billed as free health care for life, and that's simply not true. We already had a family premium each year to keep our health care. It's not high (around five hundred a year). I know others pay far more. But it sticks in my craw that we have to accept Medicare for the Cherub or Tricare can simply cease to provide us any insurance whatsoever.
I find our government provided health care inefficient, bumptious, time consuming, and not cost effective. And I watch what government health care and other government programs do 'for' Blynken's and Nod's mother and I am even less impressed. If they are this inefficient and bumbling now, I shudder to think how monolithically botched a single payer system would be. Pin It
