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Comments: Thank you Susan, it is about people. I don't have anything nice to say right now and since I don't, I'm going by what my mom told me and I've told my kids. "If you can't say any thing nice, don't say anything at all"  "I'll never grow up, I'll never grow up"!!! Dorthy from the Wizard of Oz
Comments: I don't think anyone is saying our current healthcare/insurance system is perfect. They cost too much money and yes, it needs some overhaul. But the plans that are on the table are not the right way to address the problems. I don't want some government official deciding whether I live or die. This is about more than money ... it's about people. And if the plans Congress is making for us are so great, why don't they want it?
Comments: Yes, it is a shame that health insurance companies take people off their books when the people get sick. Only a few North Eastern states have laws that do not allow this. Others just cannot get insurance because they have pre-existing conditions. So, next time I hear about such a person, I am telling every good Texan here to write a check. By the way, if you could not get health insurance now, would you want charity from this group, kind as it is? Or would you rather be eligible for insurance that covers your catastrophic illness. Not only this but as has been said the price of medical services has gone so high even health insurance companies don't want many people. So, Sandy, what are you suggesting? Pool JDs money and have him pay for all the sick hardworking people we hear about here who cannot afford the high cost of medical services or just send them to the emergency room and see what happens next? What does happen next to a person who needs help beyond lipitor and blood pressure medication? I would like to know what happens in TX--honestly, I am interested. What happens to a person who cannot get a job that provides insurance and gets cancer ? Who helps? I am interested. So far no answers. And, please don't change the subject to government interference-- this IS the subject. BUT tx is losing so I have to go! UGH!
Comments: God Bless America! 2 Chronicles 7:14
Comments: Linda P - you are a party girl !!!! JD-Jack-RN no time now to discuss. TX/OU; Tech/Neb but is anyone looking at the sliding dollar? Sliding the wrong way and this ties into this administrations spend spend with Bush's last term, we ain't got no money honey. Sally that is Texas talk that says we are broke. Can anyone guess what the average tax payer is in the hole with Government debt, Credit Cards and a Mortgage?
Comments: Linda, I think we needed that. But I do have a little to say. JD, took the words right out of my mouth,only he had a little more to say than I had. Sally, that honestly breaks my heart. The people that you are referring to are honest hard working people. Some illnesses you cannot get coverage for period. They've not just crossed the border and expect to get FREE medical. And yes, maybe some should have planned better. Is it wrong to love your friends and try to help then in anyway you can? Most of us have been paying for SS for years thinking that we would be able to retire, medicare would be our "insurance"......ha...ha! Have we been duped by the G O V E R N M E N T.
Comments: Little Fluff Here -- I'm going to be eating and shopping in McKinney today, so beware. My oldest daughter Audra and I are going to birthday lunch and shopping while dad and granddad babysit kids and work on dishwasher and buy pumpkins. Then we're birthday partying for the evening at my middle daughter's house in McKinney. What a beautiful day here in Texas to have a little fun.
Comments: If the health care "we" have is so good, why does the Guest book, HERE, request money for sick people who cannot pay their medical bills? What happened to their health insurance or their ability to pay their medical bills or for a funeral? CAn't the emergency room take care of them? Do you know anyone who has gotten radiation or chemo therapy in the emergency room? Or any type of long term care, especially in TEXAS?
Comments: Richard...Please remember that you live in California. Where a 2500 sq ft frame house cost $700,000. Also, please remember that insurance costs are shared over a large number of people...and California has been losing thousands of residents and businesses over the past 3-5 years so I would expect costs to go up. And last but not least, I applaud your firm for paying the entire costs of the employees benefits...but most people in the united states pay a share of their employer insurance plan. Mass and Hawaii had gov't health plans and they both are opting out because they can't sustain the costs...what makes anyone believe that our Federal government can do any better when they can't help themselves from stealing money from the military budget for 48 billion in pet projects and can run Amtrak nor social security, nor medicare without a loss every year...I love you my friend but this debate is so one sided it's scares me. Now I say the people who really need health care coverage...write them a check...it would be cheaper. Besides Jack is correct, no one who really needs health care only needs to go to the emergency room. They can not be turned away from those hospitals that are non-profit...which is most. And last but not least...the last time I looked...about a month ago, the insurance industry profits were about 3-4% on average. I would say that is not gouging people...would you? I do love you like a brother...but say we can live with the disagreement as long as we still see each other for what we are...good men with great families and as patriotic as any. I love this country but I don't want us to become socialists...and that is where this administration apparently wants us to go.
Comments: Richard, I too have felt the pain of raising costs. But I believe this, like most other items that price themselves out of the market, will self correct, if left alone. If enough people don't or can't buy insurance, the business will close or lower prices. Forcing people to buy insurance and/or getting the government involved will not lower the cost of anything. I feel it will increase times to see a doctor and get treatments. If they control the purse strings, they will control who and what gets treated, how and when.
Comments: Jack,..not trying to sway your views on it. But, let me give you some math. I'm CFO of a company that 4 years ago was paying about $480,000 per year in health benefits (that means to the insurance company). Last year it was around $900,000 and for 2010 it's going up by 11-14%..again to the insurance company. For the past two years, we absorbed the increases without charging the employees. This year we can't sustain it, so the employees are going to have more taken from their paycheck, while we choose a plan with higher deductibles and higher co-pays. I don't know why you're a cheerleader for the insurance industry, but the costs are clearly headed for a level that the working people won't be able to deal with. I'm still not trying to sway you, but just because you can't see it doesn't mean it isn't broken...even ol' McCain has said it. Your turn.
Comments: I have now posted the 19 photos I took at the party on 10-3. Be sure to click on the 1st photo (SOC Plate) to enlarge it & read what was written on the back of the plate. None of us at the party had ever seen a SOC Commemorative plate before . . . has anyone else ever seen one?? Thanks to Rosemary for sharing!!!  Go to GET-TOGETHERS 2009 to see pics!Once you click on the 1st photo to enlarge it, you can look at all the rest of the photos in the large mode by clicking on the forward arrow. Don Brunson's pics just arrived in the mail. I'll post them by tmo.
Comments: Linda P, glad you had a great trip....welcome back and happy belated birthday. Don, your grandone is a cutey! Sandra Mc, you and your family will be in our thoughts and prayers. Keep us posted. Ada, glad to hear from you. 
Comments: Thanks for the update Sam. Wondered what happened to y'all. Butterfingers, who is doing the dancing??. While I don't want this site to turn into what some of the other sites are experiencing, Richard asked, so.... Richard I don't see anything wrong with the system we have now. Everybody gets health care, even if they have to go to the emergency room and wait. I am against this because I have TOO MUCH government in my life now and I do not want more. There is no FREE anything. Somebody pays and it is most often we, the working class. This first plan is just the camel's nose under the tent. IF it passes, it will continue to grow until we have a socialist program. Canada recently bragged the wait time for a gall bladder operation had decreased from 18 to 9 months. Do you know how painful a bad gall bladder is? My DIL had one and it was taken out two weeks after the 1st visit to the doctor. Does anyone else remember Obama saying, to the effect, older people will have to learn to control pain better with improved meds instead of getting well?
Comments: Went to the Fair yesterday & had a great time! We saw & did everything & the Fried Peaches & Cream is a real Winner! Coasty Don - Sorry for putting the wrong state for where Declan lives. Don's new Grandone lives in Georgia . . . not Louisiana! Fixed it this mrng. After being out ot the ofc 3 days, busy busy . . . gotta go. |
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