2. Discounts- Many times with auto insurance policies there are discounts you can collect if you qualify. Generally every state has different discounts but find out what discounts you qualify for and you can assign money
on auto insurance. Some discounts include good student, defensive driving, combination, retirement, college students living far away from home, loyalty, and safety discounts. Research the different
discounts and explore if you fall into any of the categories and be sure to let your carrier know this when purchasing the policy.

3. Get rid of some coverage – if you happen to have an older car that is less than ten times then price you would pay for coverage that you should get rid of the collision and comprehensive coverage on your policy. This can sage for at least 40% of the cost on the premium and it only covers the value if the car has to be replaced. If the claim that you get is not more than the premium less the deductible than it is not worth it to you to have collision or comprehensive coverage.

4. Choosing a car – If you want to buy a new car you should know that cars that are stolen more often will cost more to insure. There are different insurance costs for different types of cars. You can ask an insurance agent or look online to see what cars are stolen or damaged more often. Cars that are safer are also lees expensive to insure than ones that are more susceptible to damage.

5. Improve your credit – Your credit report can have an affect on the cost of your auto insurance. If you have better credit the more likely you are to save money. If you have bad credit you may have to pay 30-40% more than if you have good credit. By improving your credit score and making payments on time you will pay less for auto insurance.

6. Pay your premiums all at once – If you break your premiums up in monthly payments there is generally a charge that goes along with that. If you pay your premium for car insurance all at once you do not have to pay that fee and therefore you will assign money.

7. Install safety features – if you have safety features installed in your car that will beget the possibility less likely that it will be stolen your rates will be lower because your car is at less risk to get stolen. Such things as safety locks and car alarms are examples of what you can install on your car to get lower auto insurance
rates.

I have seen CNAs and nurses that viewed the patients in our care as “crazy” “stubborn” “deplorable”, the list is endless. The government and the judicial systems consider the elderly as “at risk adults”. Yet this same government does cramped to protect and provide for this population. In fact, many seniors are punished with decreasing Medicare and social security benefits if they have employment and originate over a sure amount. Many seniors have to work to be able to live and pay for staggering medical and prescription costs.

I have seen families bring their parents and grandparents to the nursing home for a variety of reasons. I have also seen seniors dropped off and left because they are simply “too grand trouble”. It’s a pain when Mom and/or Dad start making messes, require diapers, need to be fed, bathed, starts forgetting who and where they are.

I have seen geriatric patients admitted to the nursing home that are comfortable with the decision to situation them in our care. I have also seen the sad resignation of a parent that knows that they are never leaving and are being dumped. I’ve sat with many of the latter and watched them give up hope, refuse to eat, get out of bed, and eventually pass away.

Let me invite you into a day with these “crazy” “stubborn” and “obnoxious” people. Their day starts at 5am, sometimes earlier depending on whose “get-up” list they are on, they are taken to the toilet, dressed, faces cleaned, and then taken to the nursing station before heading the dining room for breakfast. If they are not the list to lie down between meals they head off to activities, therapies or restorative, taken to the toilet again and then off to lunch. Most of the patient on the long-term care floor lay down in the afternoon; however, there are activities during the afternoon also. Everything repeats itself for dinner and then it’s off to bed. I used to think it was awful to put these patients to bed at 7:30 at night until I realized that they often wanted to go to bed and fell asleep immediately, those that want to stay up watch TV, or go to evening bingo. In between all this the majority receive medications 3 – 4 times a day, are given showers – male patients shaved, weighed, and principal signs taken.

The average nursing home has 2 nurses to 45 patients, and possibly 4 CNAs and if you’re really lucky – a bath aid to do showers and weights. This is on the long-term care floors; the Medicare floor usually has 2 medication and treatment nurses and a charge nurse and always has at least one additional CNA. The average patient takes no less than 5 medications and receives medications 3 times a day. For the patient with swallowing difficulties these medications are crushed and do in applesauce – try that with Tylenol. Ninety percent of the patients receive a liquid supplement in the form of 2cal at least twice a day to support them nutritionally.

The prevailing attitude is that these patients are ignored, abused, left to lay in bed all day long, left in their believe feces and urine. I admit that it is difficult to keep everyone well-kept and dry constantly. I can thunder for the nursing home I’m employed in – those CNAs toilet those residents every 2 hours, there is very little skin breakdown, and there is a lot of laughter. Every resident complaint is taken very seriously and investigated by administration thoroughly. No one slips through the cracks.

I can only jabber for myself and what I feel. During my day I make it a point to give every resident in my care their time – and not just to ask them if they are in damage. I really talk to them – like they’re family and like they are still the people they once were. I ask them about their day, how their families are, I try to make them feel special even if it is only for a moment. I have fed patients, changed them, helped CNAs bathe them, and held their hand as they passed away so that they would not die alone. I have also listened to their stories – about their lives, their loves, what is still important to them.

I have learned so much from these people. I’ve learned what true sacrifice really is from a woman that was widowed with 4 kids during the depression. I’ve learned what it was like to watch your husband go off to war overseas and find the first job you’ve ever had. I’ve learned what it felt like to be a Japanese war bride coming to the United States. I’ve learned what it was like to feel complete hatred because of the color of your skin (something I can identify with personally). I’ve learned how heart wrenching it is to watch your only child pass away and how helpless you feel. I’ve learned what it’s like to be invisible to society because you’re homeless. I’ve learned the remorse you feel for riding a motorcycle while high on drugs and causing yourself to be in a wheelchair at 22. I’ve learned what it’s like to watch your life partner suffer with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. I’ve learned the undying devotion a wife or husband can have for their partner as they advance everyday no matter what the weather just to feed them breakfast and lunch and clean their face – even when they may or may not remember who they are that day. I’ve learned what it’s like to be ready to die and accept it without fear – and what it’s like to fight death til the extinguish.

Most of what I’ve learned is that the few minutes I spend with each patient do construct a incompatibility to them, they do examine. I’ve learned to adore and respect each patient unconditionally and give them my all while I’m there for those 16 hours each day. And most importantly – they are important, they do have a place in society – you just need to open your heart and your mind to this very special population.

For all the clamoring that is being expressed across the nation by some about how the government’s efforts to reform health care will increase costs, the actions of the PRIVATE health insurance industry lately are making it positive that this just doesn’t wash anymore. Without the government being involved at all, costs are projected to increase this year from anywhere to 10 and 25% by the PRIVATE sector. These increases come on the heels of record profits already raked in by the PRIVATE health insurance industry. Last year in 2009 “the five largest health insurance companies—WellPoint, UnitedHealth Group, Cigna, Aetna, and Humana—took in combined profits of $12.2 billion, up 56 percent over 2008.” SOURCE

It needs to be noted too that these increases reflect only half of what PRIVATE health care insurers wanted to charge had they had their way. But then whose to say that what they wound up with wasn’t really what they wanted anyway? Would it be out of the bounds of reasoning to believe that by scaring the beegeebers out of us with increase demands of 30, 40 and 50 percent that somehow these higher rate scares were intended to be “negotiated” for the lower ones they are actually going to get, … and wanted in the first place?

If you are one of the many “lucky” ones who has a job AND employer-provided health care coverage, you may be starting to think that R-E-F-O-R-M is not such a bad word after all. By now you have seen your paycheck deductions and are surprised to find that the decrease had nothing to do with T-AX-E-S (Actually, if you made less than $250,000 you probably received a tax increase). It’s in that column that deducts your share of the health care coverage which your employer provides as part of your befriend package. If you haven’t seen it yet, thank your employer and be ready for an up-tick in health care costs to you.

Thank your employer because they haven’t passed on to you the cost of health care coverage they are being asked to pay by the PRIVATE health insurance company they purchase it from YET. But eventually they will because such increases affect their bottom line and a business can not prosper if profits decrease. Large companies, especially those who have share holders, will be expected to pass on costs to their employees to keep dividends high for stock holders. This may seem like a critical course of action in these hard times. Surely even the health care industry has to do what it needs to do to survive, right? No, that’s not entirely proper.

You’re PRIVATE health care costs are going up in order for the PRIVATE health care insurance industry to contain their unusual historical high profits. Over the last half century your insurance premium dollar has gone from spending 95 cents on health care costs you incur to roughly 80 cents, and in some cases 75 and 70 cents, depending on who insures you. Compare this to the 5% administrative costs of the government-run Medicare program today. What has gone up are the “administrative costs” PRIVATE insurance companies are charging to cover the expense of doing business. Choices that doctors and patients make when selecting higher cost technologies to assess “more accurately” health care needs is part of this but without such choices a closer look reveals that big chunks are generated within the PRIVATE insurance industry to serve their bottom line – profits.

To maintain these high profit margins there are several practices that PRIVATE insurance companies are enchanting in that unfortunately hurt the consumer.

• Policy holders who bought their insurance in good faith from PRIVATE insurance companies are being refused treatment and procedures prescribed by their personally chosen physician because the bureaucrats at the PRIVATE insurance company have deemed them “unnecessary” (meaning: “too costly”). Though these high cost procedures are deemed essential and even life-saving for patients, decisions are made by non-medical professionals at insurance companies to deny these requests often because these costs will cut too deep into company profits, especially if this procedure is allowed with everyone who requires them. This practice is similar to the actions of “death panels” that Sarah Palin claimed would be formed if “socialized medicine” became a part of health care reform in this country.
• Denying coverage of patients that may have had some pre-existing condition that PRIVATE insurance bureaucrats feel MAY re-occur sometime in the future. These are deemed “high risk” people who, by virtue of past health problems may have future ones along the same lines. Dispassionately presented, the business of PRIVATE health care insurance is to hope that they collect premiums from individuals who never have to utilize their health care insurance before they die or that what they employ will not exceed what they cough up in premiums. Even if you can afford high premiums, they don’t want to cover you for fear they may have to pay for coverage they insured you for.
• Bonuses are paid to health industry employees who can dissect customer policies and find any error in their applications so they can reject their claims on an as-needed basis. This doesn’t become a legitimate concern until you need it most, when you incur a long-term, debilitating illness that will cost tens of thousands over a long period. Most insurance companies advertise their product in a warm fuzzy mode that associates them with the welfare of you and your family. You’ve seen them, like this one here. Some are cute. Some are even meant to be funny. But they all fail to convey this practice that your coverage is only apt until it’s not anymore, as THEY deem necessary.
• The health insurance industry needs more money to fight health care reform. “Medical providers, businesses and other groups battling over a health care overhaul have spent more than $100 million this year on television advertising – an enormous sum that highlights the stakes alive to,” – Campaign Media Analysis Group, 10/1/09 This “enormous sum” comes out of the premium dollar you pay for health coverage. This of course does not include thecost of advertising they buy to sell you on their products, many of which are deceptive.

Without getting off topic here too mighty I should state that there are other concerns also being raised by a vocal minority that don’t hold up to closer scrutiny either should a GOVERNMENT option be included in health care reform. Many of those fears have been debunked here. Other prominent fears raised by nay-sayers about a government option resulting in socialized medicine and raising already high deficits have been debunked too, here and here. This unfounded angst is bemoaned by what appear to be industry insiders posing as independent advocates to stoke the fears of uninformed consumers and voters.

In the unique climate of economic uncertainty it is easy to descend prey to fears of manufactured views regarding health care costs by those who realistically stand to lose from health care reform – Big Health Care Insurance. It’s not a loss they cannot absorb but it will be a change from the high profits they now command from unethical practices to a time when we got more bang for the buck in health care coverage.

An argument could be easily made that PRIVATE, for-profit health care coverage threatens human life by its current standards to forsake the patient for the sake of higher stock holder dividend yields. This is NOT an argument against the profit motive contained within the capitalistic free-enterprise concept. Profits are a good thing and anyone within business that doesn’t strive for high profits within reasonable limits is perhaps better suited for other work in the not-for-profit enterprises that serve the public in many ways. But life-dependent areas should fall outside this principle for the simple fact that human greed will ultimately turn a blind view to human need, as has happened on more than one occasion.

Outside the self-interest of the health insurance industry there are those purists within capitalism that feel threatened by ANY government intervention into what they feel can and should be handled by the PRIVATE sector. Like fundamentalist Christians who often cherry-pick the Bible to justify their orthodox views, these purists quote chapter and verse of Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations” to defend there position on this while ignoring those parts that warn against the inequality of wealth. Smith worried too about the undue influence of wealth on government where legislation would be “instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor.”(Book V, Chapter I, Portion II, 775). A little over a century later one of the greatest capitalist this nation has produced would concur. Andrew Carnegie stated in the opening line of his essay “On Wealth” that the proper administration of wealth should be “that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship”, NOT, as some see it within capitalism and the health insurance industry specifically, for the sole benefit of the wealthy

The reality is that aspects of both systems can work hand and hand to improve the well-being of all it’s citizens. Though “you will always have the poor” there is no reason to fill that market mechanisms are sacrosanct and will always prevent abuses and excesses of a wealthy oligarchy, or likewise to believe that socialistic interventions will insure equitable resources to be distributed for all to enjoy a life of relative prosperity. But if we are to rein in these anticipated high health care costs and prevent further damage to our struggling economy we must be able to get past the rhetoric that supports the status quo.

Providing economical health care for every person shouldn’t be based on an economic notion that supports the more fortunate amongst us. If we truly value life as most within our culture claim, then a system that achieves this should be created rather than sustaining one that doesn’t while it also takes more of our earned income to do so.

For further reading on the issue of increased PRIVATE health care cost, check out these sites:

WellPoint Price Hike Defense Fails To Satisfy Feds

California Death Spiral

Physicians for a National Health Care Program

Spreading the Wealth Around to the Insurance Industry and Friends

Freelancers can join the National Association of the Self-Employed (NASE) and join their Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA) that allows you to write off 100% of your medical expenses, including the cost of the health insurance premium.  Health Savings Accounts (HSA) are another contrivance to go.  You would have to pay a deductible but you obtain pre-tax savings.  BibleHealthcare.com and  Samaritan Ministries, offer a medical sharing program that covers bills by having a group of people pool money to befriend each other pay for medical costs.  People design a monthly contribution and can choose from several plans. You will want to check if this option is available in your position.  You will also want to compare the benefits you acquire to the regular insurance rates and view if this is an option that will work for you.

Your chamber of commerce, trade association, or parenting club or organization are always estimable places to begin in your quest for affordable insurance.   End healthy and prosper.

Do you bear your fill business, or freelance?   Are you working part-time and, therefore, not eligible for benefits?   Health insurance is extremely distinguished as healthcare costs are going through the roof.  One of the ways to gain health insurance is to join a trade association or some kind of formal group that provides health insurance for it’s members.  The American Automobile Association  (AAA) offers short term medical insurance for between 30 – 185 days which is cheaper than COBRA.  This is a respectable procedure to support yourself insured without breaking the bank (crucial at a time when saving every penny counts).  They also offer permanent insurance for college students (up to age 63).  This is large for students who can’t go on their parent’s concept as dependents, or are international students, and can be a cheaper alternative to the college health insurance plans.   eHealth Insurance offers quotes for comparison for people seeking insurance for themselves and their families.  It allows you the flexibility to settle your deductible, compare coinsurance rates and peek what your monthly payments will be.  Healthinsurance.org offers you the same options as well as links to websites that offer risk pools (insurance for people who cannot secure insurance because of their medical/pre-existing conditions, or a change in their circumstances that makes them ineligible for benefits).  

Freelancers can join the National Association of the Self-Employed (NASE) and join their Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA) that allows you to write off 100% of your medical expenses, including the cost of the health insurance premium.  Health Savings Accounts (HSA) are another map to go.  You would have to pay a deductible but you net pre-tax savings.  BibleHealthcare.com and  Samaritan Ministries, offer a medical sharing program that covers bills by having a group of people pool money to assist each other pay for medical costs.  People manufacture a monthly contribution and can choose from several plans. You will want to check if this option is available in your place.  You will also want to compare the benefits you accumulate to the regular insurance rates and search for if this is an option that will work for you.

Your chamber of commerce, trade association, or parenting club or organization are always capable places to initiate in your quest for affordable insurance.   End healthy and prosper.

Here’s what it means:

Accurate now, group health insurance benefits are exempted from tax, which means you don’t pay taxes on the value of the health insurance conception you receive from your employer (assuming you are among the fewer and fewer citizens who serene receive health insurance benefits from your employer).

Under McCain’s belief, that exemption would move. You would be taxed on the value of your health insurance benefits.

In return, he would offer you a tax credit at a fixed, universal value. It would be the same for everyone. And everyone — the theory goes — could go out shopping to grasp their bear health insurance on the inaugurate market. In theory, as “consumers” hit the “market” for insurance, competing companies would lower prices, improve their coverage, and give better service and benefits overall.

Sounds marvelous.

It would be, if insurance and health services worked in the same map the market for cars works.

A group of four well-respected scholars have concluded in a current white paper that McCain’s predicament would result in less and worse health insurance coverage. Here’s why:

First, insurance companies who sell group plans cannot exclude individuals from the group plans. When a company hires someone with diabetes, and that person comes under the company’s purchased health insurance opinion, the insurance company can’t legally exclude the modern employee with diabetes. As anyone knows who has tried to recall health insurance individually, insurance companies can and do exclude individuals who have chronic health problems.

That defeats the purpose of health insurance — unless you gain that the purpose of health insurance is to do money for insurance companies.

A second plight is that McCain’s proposed tax credit is structured to withhold up with the rising costs of health insurance. Free market proponents may argue that health insurance, and necessarily health care costs themselves, would decrease rather than increase under a McCain understanding. Supply and quiz, they would argue. Competition in the marketplace. But they would gain no serious policy experts to agree with them.

To the contrary, policy experts tend to agree that a typical “consumer” come to health care and health care insurance does not work on a supply-demand principle. Current sense backs them up. The diabetes patient who is denied coverage, or who is offered coverage at an unaffordable effect, can negate you that no matter how mighty “put a question to” she may feel for the medical treatment important to withhold her healthy, she cannot net a realistic “supply.”

The white paper abstract sums it up in this way:

Moving toward a relativelyunregulated nongroup market will tend to raise costs, reducethe generosity of benefits, and leave people with fewer consumerprotections. [Health Affairs 27, no. 6 (2008): w472-w481 (publishedonline 16 September 2008; 10.1377/ hlthaff.27.6.w472)]

The authors of that record are not political hacks. And they have criticized the Obama health care idea as well. So you’ll have some context in which to consider the foregoing quotation, I’ll paste in here the names and credentials of the four scholars who authored the study:

¹ Tom Buchmueller is the Waldo O. Hildebrand Professor of Risk Management and Insurance in the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor.
² Sherry Glied is a professor and chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, in Recent York City.
³ Anne Royalty is an associate professor of economics, Indiana University–Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI).
⁴ Katherine Swartz is a professor of health economics and policy in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, in Boston, Massachusetts.

Corporate employees and others who may smooth relish group-based health insurance plans stand to lose the most. They’ll lose the tax exemption for those plans. Instead they’ll be given a tax credit and an intimidating homework assignment: go out and gather yourself a splendid deal on health insurance. By yourself.

McCain’s health care view would eliminate the tax deduction for health care plans, and replace it with a “refundable” tax credit for everyone.

Here’s what it means:

Honest now, group health insurance benefits are exempted from tax, which means you don’t pay taxes on the value of the health insurance notion you receive from your employer (assuming you are among the fewer and fewer citizens who detached receive health insurance benefits from your employer).

Under McCain’s opinion, that exemption would fade. You would be taxed on the value of your health insurance benefits.

In return, he would offer you a tax credit at a fixed, universal value. It would be the same for everyone. And everyone — the theory goes — could go out shopping to lift their hold health insurance on the originate market. In theory, as “consumers” hit the “market” for insurance, competing companies would lower prices, improve their coverage, and give better service and benefits overall.

Sounds favorable.

It would be, if insurance and health services worked in the same arrangement the market for cars works.

A group of four well-respected scholars have concluded in a current white paper that McCain’s plight would result in less and worse health insurance coverage. Here’s why:

First, insurance companies who sell group plans cannot exclude individuals from the group plans. When a company hires someone with diabetes, and that person comes under the company’s purchased health insurance notion, the insurance company can’t legally exclude the fresh employee with diabetes. As anyone knows who has tried to assume health insurance individually, insurance companies can and do exclude individuals who have chronic health problems.

That defeats the purpose of health insurance — unless you acquire that the purpose of health insurance is to compose money for insurance companies.

A second quandary is that McCain’s proposed tax credit is structured to preserve up with the rising costs of health insurance. Free market proponents may argue that health insurance, and necessarily health care costs themselves, would decrease rather than increase under a McCain understanding. Supply and quiz, they would argue. Competition in the marketplace. But they would glean no serious policy experts to agree with them.

To the contrary, policy experts tend to agree that a typical “consumer” reach to health care and health care insurance does not work on a supply-demand principle. Popular sense backs them up. The diabetes patient who is denied coverage, or who is offered coverage at an unaffordable imprint, can negate you that no matter how great “seek information from” she may feel for the medical treatment important to sustain her healthy, she cannot catch a realistic “supply.”

The white paper abstract sums it up in this way:

Moving toward a relativelyunregulated nongroup market will tend to raise costs, reducethe generosity of benefits, and leave people with fewer consumerprotections. [Health Affairs 27, no. 6 (2008): w472-w481 (publishedonline 16 September 2008; 10.1377/ hlthaff.27.6.w472)]

The authors of that recount are not political hacks. And they have criticized the Obama health care understanding as well. So you’ll have some context in which to think the foregoing quotation, I’ll paste in here the names and credentials of the four scholars who authored the study:

¹ Tom Buchmueller is the Waldo O. Hildebrand Professor of Risk Management and Insurance in the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor.
² Sherry Glied is a professor and chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, in Unique York City.
³ Anne Royalty is an associate professor of economics, Indiana University–Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI).
⁴ Katherine Swartz is a professor of health economics and policy in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, in Boston, Massachusetts.

Corporate employees and others who may unexcited appreciate group-based health insurance plans stand to lose the most. They’ll lose the tax exemption for those plans. Instead they’ll be given a tax credit and an intimidating homework assignment: go out and bag yourself a first-rate deal on health insurance. By yourself.

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https://www.humana-one.com/secured/individual-health-insurance-quotes.asp

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4) Anthem Blue Cross/ Blue Shield requests that you absorb out an inquiry originate on their web page Here with your name, phone number, and e-mail address so that they can accept in touch with you. If you would rather, you can call their toll free number to tell directly with an agent at 1-866-806-6709.

3) One of the many online insurance brokers is http://myinsurancerates.com . They do not allow you to derive quotes and apply completely online for child only coverage. They claim to carry multiple insurers, though the only two were available in Colorado for children only with them. You must call 1-866-884-3838 to receive a quote. The prices ranged from $39 – $202 a month for one child’s coverage.

2) Humana One Insurance coverage can be located at Humana One. The execute needs only the dwelling, zip code, gender, and birth date of your child to generate quotes for you online. Space the child’s birthday and gender in the ‘primary’ applicant region. Their prices for a 3 year broken-down female in Colorado are $36 – $141, although the $36 dollar opinion pays nothing until you have reached the $75,000 deductible and a $1000 prescription deductible.

1) My number one common residence and the one I ended up using to buy insurance for my child is ehealthinsurance . They have plans to offer from Aetna, Anthem, Kaiser, CELTIC, RMHP, United Health One, and Companion. There are 100 plans available for a child a notice range from $35 – $208 in every possible combination of benefits.

The $35 understanding has $30 co-pay for important care and specialists for the first three visits and pays 70 of costs after the first three visits. Average child has 3-5 important care visits a year, if you child is healthy you like I may only search for the MD twice a year. This opinion also offers generic prescriptions at $15.

You can compare plans side by side by using the check marks on the left hand side of the page. If you are concerned about being able to support your child’s pediatrician there is a button to search for doctors attached to the notion, and a belief details button (remember to scrutinize at this before you buy).

Sources:

https://www.ehealthinsurance.com

https://www.humana-one.com/secured/individual-health-insurance-quotes.asp

http://www.anthemforco.com/

http://myinsurancerates.com

http://www.uhc.com/

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* Are they already covered under a spouse’s policy?
* Do they require frequent medical care or they seldom visit doctor?
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* Your business zip code
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Uninsured in the United States

Blogging is a relatively fresh technology that has helped shape how people communicate. With the benefit of the internet, minority groups have been able to glean public attend and attention from their blog posts. The internet has gained mass popularity in the previous 15 years growing at an exponential rate; it allows us to approach anyone anywhere at the race of light. Blogging is considerable because the average person can now project their message to millions of people online almost instantly. Blogs have become a key tool for minority groups to regain their notion across without spending a lot of money. They have empowered and given a teach to, people without adequate health insurance, and will be able to assist more people in the future if the trend of blogging continues.

More than 44.8 Million people in the United States do not have health insurance (Wattenberg). This causes a mountainous deal of effort for the average person living in the United States. The ask is whether or not health insurance is worth the amount of money they will have to consume or if they even have the money to utilize on it. They then will inspect at the opportunity cost; this is what they will have to give up if they don’t catch health insurance. When struggling to design this decision they often examine at themselves as healthy and won’t need or can’t afford health insurance. Health insurance costs on average of $10,880 dollars per family, however most companies screen a ample fraction of,this cost, thus making it cost on average $2,713 per year (Appleby). These numbers are staggering for the average family in America who build only $48,201 per year.

The uninsured in the USA are a seemingly invisible group to political elite and law makers. The spot with Universal healthcare is that it would, in theory, give everyone an equal opportunity at who gets what doctor. In other words there would be no “better” hospital to visit if you were wealthy or had some sort of influence. The documentary Sicko Michael Moore outlines what happens to people without health insurance in the USA, and it also largely covers what happens to people who have health insurance but their concept limits how great care they can receive. The documentary also includes what happens to people who live in countries who have universal healthcare. The documentary was an gross bias towards Universal Healthcare, but it outlined many facts. The following quote comes from the Institute of Medicine, was featured in the movie Sicko, and indicates the severity of the US healthcare quandary.

According to the Institute of Medicine, “lack of health insurance causes roughly 18,000 unnecessary deaths every year in the United States. Although America leads the world in spending on health care, it is the only wealthy, industrialized nation that does not ensure that all citizens have coverage.” (“Insuring America’s Health: Principles and Recommendations”)

This is a scary number of people that die each year from the lack of financial means in the United States. With the institution of Universal Healthcare that number would be down to zero.

The scary facts about United States recent healthcare system are that the United States Government is doing puny in the arrangement of making this number go down. Hillary Clinton, one of the biggest supporters of Universal Healthcare, was bought out by the drug companies and doctors in the manufacture of campaign money. She is the second highest recipient of money from the unique healthcare system; thus causing a conundrum (Christensen). How can the government fix the new pickle when the candidates themselves are in the pockets of the healthcare system and broad drug manufacturers? Most concept it as a plight, but do not know the extent of the problem; the healthcare companies are spending more and more money hiring people to fight congress over healthcare plans. In fact, there are 2,084 lobbyist and only 535 members of congress (Mayor).

The uninsured are a sizable marginalized group in the United States that are not being represented by the government with adequate representation. The drug companies have the most to lose if the United States government adopts universal healthcare. They will lose the most because suitable now they are making their fortune off the modern health insurance view in the United States. They accomplish their money off not treating everyone and from their high premiums. The unique Bush administration has been urged by the drug companies to not agree to a universal healthcare system. They offer payouts to high political figures such as George W. Bush himself. This money is unprejudiced a fragment of the amount of money that these drug companies receive every year from American families.

The uninsured American has no plot to argue with the insurance or drug companies over how grand their care will cost them. To save it simply, they can’t. The following is a quote from Kuro5hin.org which posted this argument about bargaining rights of the uninsured:

“An individual who needs medical care has no bargaining power whatsoever with a hospital. He can either agree to pay whatever he is charged, or he can die. There are no other choices. In some cases, the government will force him to obtain medical care – if he is a minor child in a family that does not wish to accumulate him any for religious or financial reasons, or if he is considered not to be in possession of reason – but he will detached be billed. Refusing medical care for a unsafe or fatal condition is something most people won’t do – and may, in fact, be considered evidence of insanity which takes away the patient’s legal to refuse treatment at all. He can’t trudge out because the impress seems unreasonable. In some cases negotiation is fruitful, but often it isn’t.”

This following scenario is a accurate plot that far too many Americans face who are uninsured. They have no intention to pay off their bill so they can only settle to refuse care instead, often doing this to serve their families financially. Their bills often accept so high that if they chose to die, it would be better financially. So are we putting a heed on human life?

Alarmed by the frigid shoulder that the U.S. Senate shows the uninsured, I looked into right life accounts of uninsured persons in the United States and their chilling stories. The following memoir touched me because it is of a hard working miner named Lenny who worked all his life in unforgiving conditions. He survived a mine fire which killed 91 of his co-workers. This didn’t close Lenny from returning to work, because after all he had three kids and with his job sizable health care. Unfortunately for Lenny he had health care up until the mine he worked for laid everyone off. This left Lenny with serious health problems from working underground for twenty years. He would eventually need medical care; so he applied for a job that offered medical assistance, and the only accept was that it took 60 days to go into carry out. The following comes from (Sered and Fernandopulle):

“The luck that had made Lenny one of the survivor’s of the 1972 mine fire had hasten out. Only 30 days after he began the job, he fell down onto the pavement in beefy cardiac arrest. Paramedics flew him to Spokane, Wash., to a cardiac unit. His recovery was far better than anyone expected, but he was saddled with tall medical bills. A year later, he was sent to the hospital for angioplasty and eventually open-heart surgery. The doctors saved his life, but Lenny is quiet suffering acute headaches as a result of falling to the pavement when he experienced the initial cardiac arrest. The cardiologist sent him to an otolaryngologist, who then sent him to other specialists for treatments; none has eliminated his headaches.

The bill for his various surgeries, consultations, medications, and treatments is more than $140,000—it might as well be $1 billion in terms of Lenny ever being able to pay it. His sole income at this time is the $400/month pension he receives from the mining company.

The second ending to Lenny’s narrative is a bit different. Speaking with feeling about the first time he had to ask for public assistance, tears advance into his eyes, which seems incongruous for a man who went aid down into the mine as soon as the smoke from the deadly fire had cleared out. “We have worked all of our lives, even went to work sick,” Lenny says. And now, instead of the dignity of automatic access to care, he depends on the golden heart of the county indigent assistance program.”

Lenny’s case is not an isolated one by any means; many people are uninsured and fragment similar stories about how the flaws of the fresh healthcare system.

Recently the blogging phenomenon has allowed many people with internet access to be able to fraction their healthcare stories with the world. Many people who can’t afford insurance can’t afford the cost of high rush internet which is required in order to blog. However, many public libraries offer this service and this allows many to have a recount when they wouldn’t previously. Healthinsuranceblog.com offers many different facts about the benefits of healthcare and what could happen if you don’t have it. The blog does not give trusty life accounts of people who are uninsured, but they back raise awareness of what it means to not have insurance. The blog brings up a righteous point about why Universal Healthcare in the United States is unlikely, we don’t have the money to provide healthcare for everyone. The government currently does not have the allocated funds to hide insurance for everyone. With a tax it might be able to afford healthcare, but currently there is not enough money. Over 55% of the uninsured don’t pay taxes (healthinsuranceblog) and there would have to be higher taxes for everyone while only some people succor. Health Insurance Blog is a political blog that outlines what the upcoming presidential candidates aid for health care.

Healthcare is often a matter of life and death for many. Without health insurance, the uninsured cannot afford routine doctors visits so if there is something disagreeable with them it is not detected until it’s too behind. Most of the illness that people find can be easily treated with generous care, but since most people terror the cost of a doctors or hospital visit they are left untreated.

Uninsured persons exercise political candidates to aid procure their message to the public about how distinguished their situations are. On the website healthinsuranceblog.com the democratic author talked about how politicians are getting the public aware of what it is like to be uninsured:

“In the Democratic Party primaries of 1988, for example, candidate Michael Dukakis talked about a young single mother who had two jobs and detached could not afford medical insurance for herself and her children. In 1992, Bill Clinton did the same, changing the epic only slightly. This time it was the case of a woman with diabetes who could not obtain health insurance because of her chronic condition. And now, in the 2008 primaries, Hillary Rodham Clinton (whom I worked with on the White House Health Care Reform Task Force in 1993) describes a similar case. This time it is a single woman, with two daughters, who cannot pay her medical bills because her congenital heart defect makes it impossible for her to get medical insurance coverage. And Barack Obama describes similar cases, with the eloquence that characterizes all of his speeches. He frequently refers to his contain mother, who had cancer and had to inconvenience not only about her illness but about paying her medical bills.”

Healthcare cannot wait remarkable longer. Americans are dying every day because they can’t afford to go to pick up a routine doctors visit or they can’t afford their medication. I looked at the earning of the CEO of GlaxoSmithKline which is one of the larger providers of health insurance, Jean-Pierre Garnier the CEO made $9.4 million dollars last year. How is it pleasing that many people in the United States are uninsured and can’t afford to gain the befriend they need, and the CEO’s of the companies that are denying them affordable healthcare are making a immense salary. When people have to work two jobs impartial to be able to afford to pay for their medications, why should insurance and drug companies continue to be making such a substantial profit?

Internet savvy users who happen to be uninsured illustrate their hardships over the internet. Oftentimes, people without healthcare who have problems have a hard time expressing their feelings about their situations because they either can’t afford to utilize the internet or are too frustrated. The internet, along with blogs, has become a tool for people to drawl their concept without the censor of mainstream media. Blogs are written by people who have a yelp and without an agenda (for the most fraction anyway; there are also corporate blogs).

Health care blogs are written by numerous people including, doctors, people without health insurance, and supporters of healthcare for everyone also known as universal healthcare. The commonwealthfund.org is an internet status that describes stories of people without healthcare and their hardships. The station is made for people to net awareness of how poor it is to not have healthcare, and even skedaddle down the stereotypes of people without health insurance. One stereotype I faded to have is that people without health insurance are slothful, and or did not work hard enough to be able to afford it so it was be their fault for not having it. After looking at this location that gives minorities a pronounce, I learned that even college-educated men and woman have a hard time getting health care.

One profile on commonwealthfund.org was of a college graduate named Ryan who had to settle whether or not to acquire a job based on income or healthcare. He was a healthy young individual who did not deem he would need healthcare so he decided to lift a job teaching which did not offer superior benefits. Ryan fell down on his apartment stairs and damage his knee, he now has very high hospital bills to pay off. He later had to rob a job that paid less but offers health benefits. Ryan ended up getting care for his knee in Chili because they did not charge as distinguished and offered equal or better service. The quiz I have to ask after reading Ryan’s narrative that he told was why should anyone have to decide between a career or a job that offers health benefits? What happened to what we were told as kids: “we can be anything we want to be? ” The truth is with our original understanding many Americans are finding themselves working for adequate health service.

Blogs have become an good earn of education for people who did not know about what is happening to the uninsured. With the unique popularity of blogs, many are using their advise to disprove favorite misconceptions about what is it like to not be fully covered by their insurance company when they need care. After reading all the Profiles of the uninsured on commonwealthfund.org I wanted to know more about how we could derive their stories across to more people. The upcoming election for president has given the most power to the uninsured. The biggest predicament that is being addressed besides the Iraq war is the topic of affordable healthcare for all. The fact is that healthcare is only affordable for the average American making under $50,000 for a family is one that is mostly covered by their employer. But with the economy falling without or exiguous growth since 2001 has not made it accessible for exiguous companies to provide healthcare for their employees.

Dinky business owners are finding it increasingly difficult to afford the cost of healthcare for employees. Petite businesses have to deal with high taxes by the government on their income (this number is usually around 35% but can very plot by plot), this is a high number so the amount of funds left after paying for overhead is very dinky. The goal of microscopic business it to expand and grow, but how can they afford to do that with all the costs they have? If healthcare cost less for business owners the economy would follow suit. It would grow, and I dare say we would be out of the recession that we are currently in. There is diminutive in obtain of growth in the United States compared to other developing nations.

Universal Healthcare to many Americans is not essential to them because they are already covered; however I am concerned about it because the United States is doing so poorly economically. Blogs have been principal in addressing the lisp of how powerful money in being spent by individuals every year. In 2003 1.3 trillion dollars was spent on healthcare by the American people. This is an alarming amount of money that is going to something that is under regulated as far as brand goes. The drug companies and insurance companies are taking a spacious allotment of all Americans income each year. Healthcare blogs have played a substantial role in getting the public’s attention at this relate. They often develop issues aware to us that we may not have known about; blogs unlike mainstream media are not censored and do not have a corporate sponsor. Americans who do not have health insurance come by their stories about their hardships on blogs or others write about them on their behalf.

I found a family member in my family who did not have health insurance. I learned last year she had a major operation on her help, and I often wondered how she was going to pay for it. I conducted an interview with her and what I found out was disturbing. I have to say I am slightly bias towards this because she is a family member; however it does not obtain the facts any less chilling.

My Aunt Lisa Herbert is a working class woman who did not achieve high school or befriend any formal schooling after she dropped out. She got pregnant at the young age of 15 and had her first child at the age of 16. Lisa had a tough life from her teenage years. She had a hard time raising a kid at her age; she went through multiple husbands and boyfriends who would promise to capture care of her children but left her financially ruined. Lisa’s sage regarding medical insurance starts two years ago in 2006. From all aspects she had a hard life but she wanted to unexcited perform something of herself, she got a job at a Dunkin Donuts as was promoted lickety-split to manager. She was enjoying for the first time in her life financial freedom even if it was small; she had the sense of independence. She went to work unprejudiced as she has always done one day in the winter; she fell on the ice leading up to the Dunkin Donuts she worked at. She fractured one her vertebras, however not life threatening, neither were her injuries threatening enough to construct her become a paraplegic. However she was detached injured. Lisa could not go or be mobile for over 6 months; now imagine this as she described to me, she was finally becoming financially independent and was proud to become a manager, then after one accident she landed in the hospital. She did not have ample insurance; she had what Dunkin Donuts provided for her. She was “lucky” in the sense that because she did not have the financial means to sue them. Dunkin Donuts gave her the pay for the 6 months that she was not working. She took this as a gift, but from my point of idea she could have got more out of them if she had money. Lisa then had to pay overwhelming medical bills (the true amount was not disclosed) that mounted on her already oppressed spot.

Lisa’s anecdote is not an isolated one or even a rarity in the United States. Many workers who are working either retail or chain restaurants are not making it financially. The rising cost of healthcare that is not provided from the companies that they are working for is overwhelming and often times unaffordable. The blogging community is unbiased starting to engage up issues of social injustice that is being done to marginalized groups such as the medically uninsured in the United States and giving them a issue. These groups should not be silenced because they do not have enough money to pay for qualified care or routine visits.

I want to address one famous convey that the readers of this paper may be having; I have talked a lot about universal healthcare and how the uninsured need care as well. Many Americans that I have spoken to said that they don’t want ghastly quality care if we decided to do universal healthcare. I have a personal account I want to fragment to distinct up any confusion with the quality of nonprofit hospitals or hospitals that offer free care. When I was the age of 15 I had a severe flat foot predicament, with health insurance that covered nearly 99% of all medical bills my parents had to pay over $3,000 out of pocket for treatment in order to procure custom made orthotics for my feet and other care. They did not work. I ended up going to a hospital in Springfield Massachusetts that offered free orthopedic care to anyone under the age of 18; we did this only because all the “specialists” we visited did not encourage my condition. My doctor I had was the top orthopedic surgeon at the hospital and could rival any at a paying hospital. He suggested a modern treatment for my feet without surgery and gave me free orthotics that actually helped. My family had the money to accept nearly any doctor that would assist me however this was the only doctor that knew what he was doing that we visited so far. He was unruffled paid but by donations (he drove a 7 series BMW so he was getting paid a lot). I consider that Americans that are opposing universal healthcare have a crooked plan on what it means to not have insurance pay for their care. I want to address one more thing, I found out about this hospital from a healthcare blog (can’t remember which one) which had other patients writing about their care and how they were helped by this hospital.

Universal healthcare to many is something that we want and strive for in America; but the query we have to ask is can we afford it? A explore was done on the National Center for Political Analysis website outlining what would happen if we adopted universal healthcare today. According to the state if we were to behold at another universal healthcare concept such as Sweden’s, America would suffer far beyond what it is suffering today. Due to lower funding to hospitals through taxes instead of the healthcare providers, we would experience the following, a go in unique staff for hospitals, reduction in staff at hospitals and clinics, reduction in beds at hospitals to house patients, undertrained people taking on higher responsibilities such as surgery (Larson,1). This makes it hard for us to contemplate universal healthcare in America when there are so many negatives. However should the voices of the uninsured that are dying simply because they can’t afford their premiums be silenced?

Many of the uninsured living in America now are between the ages of 20-30, these by all means are young healthy individuals who feel like they will never need insurance until past the age of 30. They assume, what are the odds of getting sick? They are classified by the insurance agencies as “young invincibles” these are the people who do not have the average $3,000 a year to consume on health insurance let alone if their employer even offers it. Jake Hollner is by all rights a young healthy individual who at the age of 24 is working for Home Depot and is an artist piece time. He missed the insurance that Home Depot offers as it is only offered once a year in a two week time frame. He notion to himself that he did not have the money to afford insurance (he was only making $6 an hour) so why bother? The money he would set from the insurance could be assign to his medical bill if he had a onetime accident. He suffered from stomach ulcers since his undergraduate years in college, these ulcers unprejudiced starting coming relieve so he decided to bite the bullet and go to the doctors for attend. He paid $200 for the visit and $73 for the prescription. This was his entire paycheck for the week but he was graceful correct? The ulcers did not go away after he took his medication; he had to do the unthinkable for an uninsured person, he went to the emergency room. He lost his gamble with not having insurance he ended up paying a fortune for his ulcer coverage because he was without health insurance. The genuine costs were not disclosed. Jake before the doctor visit could barely afford rent and other living expenses including health insurance (Amsden, 1).

There are other stories such as Jake’s out there, where young people who are rarely sick do not have the coverage they need in case of an emergency. The healthcare providers commented on this blog which Jake’s sage was on. They gave him a link to collect affordable healthcare through them, the provider is Blue Obnoxious Blue Shield. Even if there was “affordable” healthcare to many, how could someone like Jake who was only making $6 an hour be able to fix his other expenses? There is no cutting corners in his case, he has no money and is living on necessities.

With the institution of universal healthcare people such as Jake would not have to pay a lot to bag coverage since he does not invent a lot. Why is it that in America the better off richer class doesn’t want to abet everyone else? Universal healthcare redistributes the wealth that we are not getting a fragment of. When the majority of our wealth is going to the 1/10 of the top 1% in our country how can the rest of us afford to live? In theory, their money would serve fund everyone else with healthcare from their taxes. Wouldn’t it be better to live in a community where everyone helps each other, and there is no one who has to resolve between eating or taking their child to the doctor’s office?

Universal healthcare is a topic that cannot be ignored any longer. We have too many people living amongst us who simply cannot afford the absurd premiums that the insurance companies are charging. The people that are dying because they cannot afford regular doctors visits are accurate people who have families and people that rely on them. This is a change that will need to be addressed as our modern president comes into office in the year.

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A blog of one’s own

Uninsured in the United States

Blogging is a relatively original technology that has helped shape how people communicate. With the befriend of the internet, minority groups have been able to derive public wait on and attention from their blog posts. The internet has gained mass popularity in the previous 15 years growing at an exponential rate; it allows us to advance anyone anywhere at the run of light. Blogging is well-known because the average person can now project their message to millions of people online almost instantly. Blogs have become a key tool for minority groups to salvage their understanding across without spending a lot of money. They have empowered and given a utter to, people without adequate health insurance, and will be able to attend more people in the future if the trend of blogging continues.

More than 44.8 Million people in the United States do not have health insurance (Wattenberg). This causes a grand deal of anguish for the average person living in the United States. The examine is whether or not health insurance is worth the amount of money they will have to consume or if they even have the money to employ on it. They then will peer at the opportunity cost; this is what they will have to give up if they don’t capture health insurance. When struggling to originate this decision they often discover at themselves as healthy and won’t need or can’t afford health insurance. Health insurance costs on average of $10,880 dollars per family, however most companies conceal a substantial part of,this cost, thus making it cost on average $2,713 per year (Appleby). These numbers are staggering for the average family in America who create only $48,201 per year.

The uninsured in the USA are a seemingly invisible group to political elite and law makers. The predicament with Universal healthcare is that it would, in theory, give everyone an equal opportunity at who gets what doctor. In other words there would be no “better” hospital to visit if you were wealthy or had some sort of influence. The documentary Sicko Michael Moore outlines what happens to people without health insurance in the USA, and it also largely covers what happens to people who have health insurance but their notion limits how distinguished care they can receive. The documentary also includes what happens to people who live in countries who have universal healthcare. The documentary was an uncouth bias towards Universal Healthcare, but it outlined many facts. The following quote comes from the Institute of Medicine, was featured in the movie Sicko, and indicates the severity of the US healthcare predicament.

According to the Institute of Medicine, “lack of health insurance causes roughly 18,000 unnecessary deaths every year in the United States. Although America leads the world in spending on health care, it is the only wealthy, industrialized nation that does not ensure that all citizens have coverage.” (“Insuring America’s Health: Principles and Recommendations”)

This is a scary number of people that die each year from the lack of financial means in the United States. With the institution of Universal Healthcare that number would be down to zero.

The scary facts about United States original healthcare system are that the United States Government is doing cramped in the draw of making this number go down. Hillary Clinton, one of the biggest supporters of Universal Healthcare, was bought out by the drug companies and doctors in the effect of campaign money. She is the second highest recipient of money from the modern healthcare system; thus causing a conundrum (Christensen). How can the government fix the new jam when the candidates themselves are in the pockets of the healthcare system and sizable drug manufacturers? Most conception it as a jam, but do not know the extent of the problem; the healthcare companies are spending more and more money hiring people to fight congress over healthcare plans. In fact, there are 2,084 lobbyist and only 535 members of congress (Mayor).

The uninsured are a titanic marginalized group in the United States that are not being represented by the government with adequate representation. The drug companies have the most to lose if the United States government adopts universal healthcare. They will lose the most because true now they are making their fortune off the fresh health insurance idea in the United States. They build their money off not treating everyone and from their high premiums. The modern Bush administration has been urged by the drug companies to not agree to a universal healthcare system. They offer payouts to high political figures such as George W. Bush himself. This money is objective a share of the amount of money that these drug companies receive every year from American families.

The uninsured American has no scheme to argue with the insurance or drug companies over how great their care will cost them. To establish it simply, they can’t. The following is a quote from Kuro5hin.org which posted this argument about bargaining rights of the uninsured:

“An individual who needs medical care has no bargaining power whatsoever with a hospital. He can either agree to pay whatever he is charged, or he can die. There are no other choices. In some cases, the government will force him to gain medical care – if he is a minor child in a family that does not wish to acquire him any for religious or financial reasons, or if he is considered not to be in possession of reason – but he will serene be billed. Refusing medical care for a risky or fatal condition is something most people won’t do – and may, in fact, be considered evidence of insanity which takes away the patient’s true to refuse treatment at all. He can’t dawdle out because the tag seems unreasonable. In some cases negotiation is fruitful, but often it isn’t.”

This following scenario is a proper space that far too many Americans face who are uninsured. They have no draw to pay off their bill so they can only determine to refuse care instead, often doing this to benefit their families financially. Their bills often catch so high that if they chose to die, it would be better financially. So are we putting a ticket on human life?

Worried by the frosty shoulder that the U.S. Senate shows the uninsured, I looked into genuine life accounts of uninsured persons in the United States and their chilling stories. The following chronicle touched me because it is of a hard working miner named Lenny who worked all his life in unforgiving conditions. He survived a mine fire which killed 91 of his co-workers. This didn’t discontinuance Lenny from returning to work, because after all he had three kids and with his job large health care. Unfortunately for Lenny he had health care up until the mine he worked for laid everyone off. This left Lenny with serious health problems from working underground for twenty years. He would eventually need medical care; so he applied for a job that offered medical assistance, and the only gain was that it took 60 days to go into execute. The following comes from (Sered and Fernandopulle):

“The luck that had made Lenny one of the survivor’s of the 1972 mine fire had accelerate out. Only 30 days after he began the job, he fell down onto the pavement in plump cardiac arrest. Paramedics flew him to Spokane, Wash., to a cardiac unit. His recovery was far better than anyone expected, but he was saddled with ample medical bills. A year later, he was sent to the hospital for angioplasty and eventually open-heart surgery. The doctors saved his life, but Lenny is smooth suffering acute headaches as a result of falling to the pavement when he experienced the initial cardiac arrest. The cardiologist sent him to an otolaryngologist, who then sent him to other specialists for treatments; none has eliminated his headaches.

The bill for his various surgeries, consultations, medications, and treatments is more than $140,000—it might as well be $1 billion in terms of Lenny ever being able to pay it. His sole income at this time is the $400/month pension he receives from the mining company.

The second ending to Lenny’s legend is a bit different. Speaking with feeling about the first time he had to ask for public assistance, tears arrive into his eyes, which seems incongruous for a man who went succor down into the mine as soon as the smoke from the deadly fire had cleared out. “We have worked all of our lives, even went to work sick,” Lenny says. And now, instead of the dignity of automatic access to care, he depends on the golden heart of the county indigent assistance program.”

Lenny’s case is not an isolated one by any means; many people are uninsured and fraction similar stories about how the flaws of the modern healthcare system.

Recently the blogging phenomenon has allowed many people with internet access to be able to fragment their healthcare stories with the world. Many people who can’t afford insurance can’t afford the cost of high run internet which is required in order to blog. However, many public libraries offer this service and this allows many to have a pronounce when they wouldn’t previously. Healthinsuranceblog.com offers many different facts about the benefits of healthcare and what could happen if you don’t have it. The blog does not give right life accounts of people who are uninsured, but they aid raise awareness of what it means to not have insurance. The blog brings up a well-behaved point about why Universal Healthcare in the United States is unlikely, we don’t have the money to provide healthcare for everyone. The government currently does not have the allocated funds to mask insurance for everyone. With a tax it might be able to afford healthcare, but currently there is not enough money. Over 55% of the uninsured don’t pay taxes (healthinsuranceblog) and there would have to be higher taxes for everyone while only some people befriend. Health Insurance Blog is a political blog that outlines what the upcoming presidential candidates aid for health care.

Healthcare is often a matter of life and death for many. Without health insurance, the uninsured cannot afford routine doctors visits so if there is something unpleasant with them it is not detected until it’s too unhurried. Most of the illness that people get can be easily treated with favorable care, but since most people alarm the cost of a doctors or hospital visit they are left untreated.

Uninsured persons consume political candidates to relieve net their message to the public about how famous their situations are. On the website healthinsuranceblog.com the democratic author talked about how politicians are getting the public aware of what it is like to be uninsured:

“In the Democratic Party primaries of 1988, for example, candidate Michael Dukakis talked about a young single mother who had two jobs and aloof could not afford medical insurance for herself and her children. In 1992, Bill Clinton did the same, changing the account only slightly. This time it was the case of a woman with diabetes who could not gather health insurance because of her chronic condition. And now, in the 2008 primaries, Hillary Rodham Clinton (whom I worked with on the White House Health Care Reform Task Force in 1993) describes a similar case. This time it is a single woman, with two daughters, who cannot pay her medical bills because her congenital heart defect makes it impossible for her to get medical insurance coverage. And Barack Obama describes similar cases, with the eloquence that characterizes all of his speeches. He frequently refers to his maintain mother, who had cancer and had to wretchedness not only about her illness but about paying her medical bills.”

Healthcare cannot wait worthy longer. Americans are dying every day because they can’t afford to go to fetch a routine doctors visit or they can’t afford their medication. I looked at the earning of the CEO of GlaxoSmithKline which is one of the larger providers of health insurance, Jean-Pierre Garnier the CEO made $9.4 million dollars last year. How is it glorious that many people in the United States are uninsured and can’t afford to secure the support they need, and the CEO’s of the companies that are denying them affordable healthcare are making a colossal salary. When people have to work two jobs honest to be able to afford to pay for their medications, why should insurance and drug companies continue to be making such a tremendous profit?

Internet savvy users who happen to be uninsured illustrate their hardships over the internet. Oftentimes, people without healthcare who have problems have a hard time expressing their feelings about their situations because they either can’t afford to spend the internet or are too frustrated. The internet, along with blogs, has become a tool for people to direct their conception without the censor of mainstream media. Blogs are written by people who have a vow and without an agenda (for the most portion anyway; there are also corporate blogs).

Health care blogs are written by numerous people including, doctors, people without health insurance, and supporters of healthcare for everyone also known as universal healthcare. The commonwealthfund.org is an internet situation that describes stories of people without healthcare and their hardships. The station is made for people to regain awareness of how poor it is to not have healthcare, and even bound down the stereotypes of people without health insurance. One stereotype I old to have is that people without health insurance are idle, and or did not work hard enough to be able to afford it so it was be their fault for not having it. After looking at this situation that gives minorities a remark, I learned that even college-educated men and woman have a hard time getting health care.

One profile on commonwealthfund.org was of a college graduate named Ryan who had to resolve whether or not to find a job based on income or healthcare. He was a healthy young individual who did not judge he would need healthcare so he decided to choose a job teaching which did not offer pleasant benefits. Ryan fell down on his apartment stairs and afflict his knee, he now has very high hospital bills to pay off. He later had to seize a job that paid less but offers health benefits. Ryan ended up getting care for his knee in Chili because they did not charge as great and offered equal or better service. The examine I have to ask after reading Ryan’s chronicle that he told was why should anyone have to determine between a career or a job that offers health benefits? What happened to what we were told as kids: “we can be anything we want to be? ” The truth is with our recent idea many Americans are finding themselves working for adequate health service.

Blogs have become an top-notch design of education for people who did not know about what is happening to the uninsured. With the original popularity of blogs, many are using their notify to disprove celebrated misconceptions about what is it like to not be fully covered by their insurance company when they need care. After reading all the Profiles of the uninsured on commonwealthfund.org I wanted to know more about how we could net their stories across to more people. The upcoming election for president has given the most power to the uninsured. The biggest spot that is being addressed besides the Iraq war is the topic of affordable healthcare for all. The fact is that healthcare is only affordable for the average American making under $50,000 for a family is one that is mostly covered by their employer. But with the economy falling without or puny growth since 2001 has not made it accessible for puny companies to provide healthcare for their employees.

Microscopic business owners are finding it increasingly difficult to afford the cost of healthcare for employees. Little businesses have to deal with high taxes by the government on their income (this number is usually around 35% but can very spot by location), this is a high number so the amount of funds left after paying for overhead is very shrimp. The goal of puny business it to expand and grow, but how can they afford to do that with all the costs they have? If healthcare cost less for business owners the economy would follow suit. It would grow, and I dare say we would be out of the recession that we are currently in. There is small in create of growth in the United States compared to other developing nations.

Universal Healthcare to many Americans is not notable to them because they are already covered; however I am concerned about it because the United States is doing so poorly economically. Blogs have been well-known in addressing the vow of how grand money in being spent by individuals every year. In 2003 1.3 trillion dollars was spent on healthcare by the American people. This is an alarming amount of money that is going to something that is under regulated as far as tag goes. The drug companies and insurance companies are taking a enormous fraction of all Americans income each year. Healthcare blogs have played a mammoth role in getting the public’s attention at this deny. They often construct issues aware to us that we may not have known about; blogs unlike mainstream media are not censored and do not have a corporate sponsor. Americans who do not have health insurance rep their stories about their hardships on blogs or others write about them on their behalf.

I found a family member in my family who did not have health insurance. I learned last year she had a major operation on her assist, and I often wondered how she was going to pay for it. I conducted an interview with her and what I found out was disturbing. I have to say I am slightly bias towards this because she is a family member; however it does not compose the facts any less chilling.

My Aunt Lisa Herbert is a working class woman who did not accomplish high school or relieve any formal schooling after she dropped out. She got pregnant at the young age of 15 and had her first child at the age of 16. Lisa had a tough life from her teenage years. She had a hard time raising a kid at her age; she went through multiple husbands and boyfriends who would promise to hold care of her children but left her financially ruined. Lisa’s chronicle regarding medical insurance starts two years ago in 2006. From all aspects she had a hard life but she wanted to aloof compose something of herself, she got a job at a Dunkin Donuts as was promoted expeditiously to manager. She was enjoying for the first time in her life financial freedom even if it was small; she had the sense of independence. She went to work honest as she has always done one day in the winter; she fell on the ice leading up to the Dunkin Donuts she worked at. She fractured one her vertebras, however not life threatening, neither were her injuries threatening enough to acquire her become a paraplegic. However she was smooth injured. Lisa could not shuffle or be mobile for over 6 months; now imagine this as she described to me, she was finally becoming financially independent and was proud to become a manager, then after one accident she landed in the hospital. She did not have safe insurance; she had what Dunkin Donuts provided for her. She was “lucky” in the sense that because she did not have the financial means to sue them. Dunkin Donuts gave her the pay for the 6 months that she was not working. She took this as a gift, but from my point of opinion she could have got more out of them if she had money. Lisa then had to pay overwhelming medical bills (the genuine amount was not disclosed) that mounted on her already oppressed station.

Lisa’s narrative is not an isolated one or even a rarity in the United States. Many workers who are working either retail or chain restaurants are not making it financially. The rising cost of healthcare that is not provided from the companies that they are working for is overwhelming and often times unaffordable. The blogging community is unprejudiced starting to purchase up issues of social injustice that is being done to marginalized groups such as the medically uninsured in the United States and giving them a utter. These groups should not be silenced because they do not have enough money to pay for apt care or routine visits.

I want to address one notable suppose that the readers of this paper may be having; I have talked a lot about universal healthcare and how the uninsured need care as well. Many Americans that I have spoken to said that they don’t want depraved quality care if we decided to do universal healthcare. I have a personal anecdote I want to fragment to distinct up any confusion with the quality of nonprofit hospitals or hospitals that offer free care. When I was the age of 15 I had a severe flat foot jam, with health insurance that covered nearly 99% of all medical bills my parents had to pay over $3,000 out of pocket for treatment in order to accumulate custom made orthotics for my feet and other care. They did not work. I ended up going to a hospital in Springfield Massachusetts that offered free orthopedic care to anyone under the age of 18; we did this only because all the “specialists” we visited did not attend my condition. My doctor I had was the top orthopedic surgeon at the hospital and could rival any at a paying hospital. He suggested a current treatment for my feet without surgery and gave me free orthotics that actually helped. My family had the money to score nearly any doctor that would aid me however this was the only doctor that knew what he was doing that we visited so far. He was composed paid but by donations (he drove a 7 series BMW so he was getting paid a lot). I consider that Americans that are opposing universal healthcare have a hooked belief on what it means to not have insurance pay for their care. I want to address one more thing, I found out about this hospital from a healthcare blog (can’t remember which one) which had other patients writing about their care and how they were helped by this hospital.

Universal healthcare to many is something that we want and strive for in America; but the examine we have to ask is can we afford it? A glance was done on the National Center for Political Analysis website outlining what would happen if we adopted universal healthcare today. According to the spot if we were to peer at another universal healthcare concept such as Sweden’s, America would suffer far beyond what it is suffering today. Due to lower funding to hospitals through taxes instead of the healthcare providers, we would experience the following, a drag in original staff for hospitals, reduction in staff at hospitals and clinics, reduction in beds at hospitals to house patients, undertrained people taking on higher responsibilities such as surgery (Larson,1). This makes it hard for us to judge universal healthcare in America when there are so many negatives. However should the voices of the uninsured that are dying simply because they can’t afford their premiums be silenced?

Many of the uninsured living in America now are between the ages of 20-30, these by all means are young healthy individuals who feel like they will never need insurance until past the age of 30. They mediate, what are the odds of getting sick? They are classified by the insurance agencies as “young invincibles” these are the people who do not have the average $3,000 a year to use on health insurance let alone if their employer even offers it. Jake Hollner is by all rights a young healthy individual who at the age of 24 is working for Home Depot and is an artist fraction time. He missed the insurance that Home Depot offers as it is only offered once a year in a two week time frame. He understanding to himself that he did not have the money to afford insurance (he was only making $6 an hour) so why bother? The money he would establish from the insurance could be place to his medical bill if he had a onetime accident. He suffered from stomach ulcers since his undergraduate years in college, these ulcers unbiased starting coming attend so he decided to bite the bullet and go to the doctors for wait on. He paid $200 for the visit and $73 for the prescription. This was his entire paycheck for the week but he was comely legal? The ulcers did not go away after he took his medication; he had to do the unthinkable for an uninsured person, he went to the emergency room. He lost his gamble with not having insurance he ended up paying a fortune for his ulcer coverage because he was without health insurance. The valid costs were not disclosed. Jake before the doctor visit could barely afford rent and other living expenses including health insurance (Amsden, 1).

There are other stories such as Jake’s out there, where young people who are rarely sick do not have the coverage they need in case of an emergency. The healthcare providers commented on this blog which Jake’s epic was on. They gave him a link to pick up affordable healthcare through them, the provider is Blue Disagreeable Blue Shield. Even if there was “affordable” healthcare to many, how could someone like Jake who was only making $6 an hour be able to fix his other expenses? There is no cutting corners in his case, he has no money and is living on necessities.

With the institution of universal healthcare people such as Jake would not have to pay a lot to bag coverage since he does not invent a lot. Why is it that in America the better off richer class doesn’t want to abet everyone else? Universal healthcare redistributes the wealth that we are not getting a part of. When the majority of our wealth is going to the 1/10 of the top 1% in our country how can the rest of us afford to live? In theory, their money would aid fund everyone else with healthcare from their taxes. Wouldn’t it be better to live in a community where everyone helps each other, and there is no one who has to determine between eating or taking their child to the doctor’s office?

Universal healthcare is a topic that cannot be ignored any longer. We have too many people living amongst us who simply cannot afford the absurd premiums that the insurance companies are charging. The people that are dying because they cannot afford regular doctors visits are exact people who have families and people that rely on them. This is a change that will need to be addressed as our fresh president comes into office in the year.

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