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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

O.K., I have to interject here.  Cause, you see, they do NOT have the best 
healthcare in the world <<eg>>  They *think* they have the best healthcare 
because they don't pay for anything.  Somehow they have come to equate "out 
of pocket" with quality healthcare.  Ehhh, NOT!

What they haven't done is look at the fine print.  Their catastrophic 
insurance is pretty lacking.  Their extended care is just about nil.  The 
fine print gets really fun when it comes to family members.  The coverage 
isn't quite as "good" as for the "wage earner."

Ya see, back in the day when I had the big title (which, btw always mean 
more work and less money <g>) of Nursing Services Coordinator, as part of 
the admitting process, I got to talk to insurance companies all day long. 
Blue Cross, Blue Shield, Kaiser, HPR, and the dozen different plans the feds 
have.  And there are, or were, an even dozen.

The worst coverage was the "best" federal policy!

Now, I was VERY good at my job.  I got blood out of a turnip quite 
frequently.  And I did get coverage beyond the policy (no benefits, I got 4 
weeks out of them) for the stroke patient that had the federal policy.  She 
ultimately ended up in a convo and ending up dying there.  However, it still 
wasn't as good as the benefits I squeezed out of Kaiser (6 weeks with inhome 
PT, OT and speech for an additional 4 weeks).  And way less than the 
coverage of the little local HMO, HPR.

Lynda
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."  Aldous Huxley

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>


> The other night, Obama was the kids Jeopardy answer to "What is the only
> President to have had more vowels in his name than consonants...lol...
> Poor guy, with all those vowels, his name becomes an easy morph for
> things like NObama, Obamacare, Obamanation,Obamessiah, etc. etc.  I
> suppose that could be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on your
> popularity-we still say Reaganomics, and something tells me we will be
> saying Obamacare for decades to come as well.
>
> I started watching his speech, and I swear the guy is more longwinded
> than I am, and that is no small feat.  I lost interest after the second
> or third time he said "I am the President..."  Also, I think his
> comments about him and Congress having the best healthcare were not
> quite as welcomed as was his intent.  I know he was trying to show
> empathy by following it up saying he wanted everyone to have good care,
> but I know I am not alone in saying that he seemed rather smug or
> snobbish or cocky or elitist (take your pick of words) in saying that a
> couple of times.  Right now, Skyguy and I have two separate fights with
> two different insurance claims with the same company, and I did not hear
> anything from the President that made me believe that these types of
> issues would not continue to be a problem for many Americans.
> I missed all the commentary-I'll have to start listening again if the
> eyes of the media are starting to open again.  For the last year, I
> usually missed all the sycophantic commentary because I was outside
> throwing up. ;)  I'm glad that some people at least are realizing that
> the guy is human and is just like other politicians-smooth talkers who
> frequently lie and go back on their promises.  He is not America's
> Messiah or Savior-he is not the reincarnation of JFK or Abraham
> Lincoln-he's just a guy who became president.  Read his friends words...