I am frequently bombarded by political agendas...most of which I agree with and
a few I don't. I don't "rock the boat".... I feel like everyone is entitled to
his or her opinion. We don't always know another's personal journey that is
swaying their perspecitve.
I keep hearing the argument for ObamaCare (which
I have been against for personal reasons since I first heard of it and thought
it to be unconstitutional) that it's what needs to be done to keep taxpayers
from having to pick up the slack and pay for those without insurance.
I feel this "how DARE you" kind of accusation is a generalization. Not
everyone who is uninsured doesn't pay their medical bills.
I pay my medical
bills. I have had insurance and still paid medical bills. I have paid OFF
countless medical bills from numerous medical facilities all of my adult
life.
Will someone please explain to me how people are getting away with not
paying their medical bills when they do not have insurance? Are these the few
that just simply don't pay? How do they get away from the phone calls and
collection agencies? The threatening notices in the mail? They simply ignore
it with no consequences? If that's so, it isn't right, and they should be held
accountable to pay for what services they received.
Our family has tried
multiple kinds of insurance over the years. For my family, it was not worth it
to pay for premiums, then deductibles....never ever seeing any real payoff or
savings...for doctors who never helped us in the first place!
The doctors
we wanted to go to when the "approved" doctors failed us, were usually not
covered by ANY insurance plans. After years of playing this game so as to be on
the side of the "good guys", we concluded we were wasting thousands of dollars
for no answers. Run of the mill tests that never led them in a direction to
actually help the problems we were having, ending with a shrug of the shoulders
and a shove out the door.
When we started choosing alternative treatments, we
were happy to pay out of pocket! These doctors listened to us and treated us
like human beings with real value. They prescribed things like diet and
supplements that actually worked! We learned about therapies we had never heard
of before that dramatically improved our quality of life. It was worth more to
us to drop our useless insurance and use the money to pay for answers....and the
bedside manor was an added bonus!
What about Well Checks?
Don't
believe in them. They check if you are well, so they can make you sick. Just a
front to push vaccinations, that I DON'T WANT.
What if we need to go to
the Emergency Room?
We have. We did. And we pay monthly on the bill.
It
is still more affordable, because if we had insurance, we would be paying a
premium each month, AND would still have had to pay for the ER visit because the
deductible, being so high, would not have been met.
What if someone gets
cancer?
If someone gets cancer, I want to be as far away from the pharma
shrills as possible!
.
What if I get pregnant?
Well, this baby factory
is closed....but if it weren't, I still wouldn't want conventional medicine
anywhere near my baby.
Complications? Bleeding? Unresponsiveness?
You got
me. I would ask for help. And I would be happy to pay for it.
Yes, if we
are in a car accident or severely burned, broken or bleeding...stopped breathing
or had a heart attack....then, yes, I would have to resort to those
professionals, and I would be grateful.
But that's MY choice, isn't it?
Isn't it MY choice as an American to be able to decide to whom I do business
with and when?
Shouldn't I be able to decide where to buy my
groceries? No? The government knows the best place for me to buy groceries?
What if I like rhubarb and they don't sell it? What if I want organic produce?
Oh...you mean the government knows better, and they say that organic food is
crap, so I have to go and shop where they say I can? And if I don't I get a
huge fine? And maybe my kids are taken away? All because I disagree on with
the Federal Government on where to make a purchase?
I do not have
insurance.....not because I couldn't afford it or wasn't offered it, but because
it didn't make any sense for me to pay outrageous premiums and deductibles for
something I would hopefully hardly ever use.
If a tragedy did occur, I
would be of course more than willing to pay on it monthly, and use my tax
returns to pay off the debt. Everyone has debt! College students! Should they
not get an education if it means going $20,000 or more into debt? What about
vehicles? An SUV will cost you more than that! People buy boats, or
motorcycles...add a deck on the house....get a pool....
I won't have the
luxuries of many Americans, and that is fine by me. My family's health is way
more important than material things.
Because MY American dream is the
freedom to think for myself, to choose how my money is spent, and to have a say
in my children's medical care.
What is yours?
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