Comments on: My Healthcare Rant

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sun, 18 May 2008 21:37:04 +0000

Someone explain to me why a so called “Not For Profit” company (BCBST) can spend over 300 million dollars on a new office. Last your our premiums went up 21 percent. This year 29 percent and our coverage went down. I am a small business owner in the state of Tennessee and I know the only way to spend that king of money is to have PROFIT. BCBST is stealling money from not only clients but everyone in the state because they are using other business’ are paying for them to claim to be “Not For Profit”. Not only is it wrong and injust it’s UNLAWFUL.

By: Chris McKee

Chris McKee — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:43:06 +0000

At 20 Stones I’m surprised the fact you don’t smoke makes any difference.

We just have really really really high taxes and the NHS to show for it.
No one can say they can’t afford healthcare as everyone gets it equally.

But it does grate when your paying shed loads in taxes to keep lazy bums in healthcare.

By: James Edward Hicks III

James Edward Hicks III — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:23:48 +0000

Well said. Insurance is about financial protection. It allows you shift the risk of getting sick, for a price, to an insurance company. Then if the unthinkable happens you can afford to get the best medical treatment available to help you return to health.

We need to stop thinking of health insurance as some kind of entitlement and treat it as part of overall financial strategy.

We also need to begin to think about taking personal responsibility for our own health. While some health issues are unavoidable because we can’t change the genes we were born with we can stop eating to much, stop drinking to much alcohol, and start getting some exercise.

I resent that I take care of myself but the majority of Americans don’t and so as a result my insurance premiums rise.