Is The American Health System Really This Bad?

Welcome to being poor and uninsurable!!!!!! In America, you are only allowed to have
insurance if you are healthy. In America, health is big business and high profit.

I mean... I could have paid out of pocket for this **** when used to do hair which was
decent cash but after I broke 3 vertebrae, I just can't stand up too long at one time. I
have a 5 inch long mass in my left breast to make me even more uninsurable (which is
SUPPOSED to be tested every 6 months but it has been 1 1/2 years because I can not
****ing pay for it) and to top that off, I have a lump that makes a horseshoe type
shape AROUND my thyroid that, as if there was any doubt, also makes it impossible for
me to be insured... and in CASE you are curious, I was one of the thousands randomly
dumped off Tennessee's state insurance plans AND I can not apply for
Medicare/Medicaid because my husband is NOT a U.S. citizen.

I read this at a friend of a friends web site http://www.sinnocence.com. Surely a 'the world's greatest democracy' isn't this bad!

[edit]btw the non US citizen husband is my mate (born in scotland) so this isn't an immigration type dilemna (or at least it would be even more of a disgrace if it was).

Wook

maybe start wondering why the Irish health service is so bad, before taking on the States. :cool:

eth0_

Tell Kitty to move to Canada :OP
And the Irish health service isn't that bad, this is a small country, it can't afford to give free healthcare to natives, never mind foreigners.
Is BUPA/VHI that expensive? It's not to me.

Victor

Originally posted by eth0_
this is a small country, it can't afford to give free healthcare to natives, never mind foreigners.

This is about healthcare not 'foreigners'.

Wook

Originally posted by eth0_

And the Irish health service isn't that bad, this is a small country, it can't afford to give free healthcare to natives, never mind foreigners.
Is BUPA/VHI that expensive? It's not to me.

thats probably why most of the parties these days put healthcare in the top three problems they going to deal with.
and it's not bupa that is expensive, but waiting for a whole nighter just get examined is too much, waiting list and so on.
Do you actually live in Ireland Eth? You seem to totaly miss the point

eth0_

Erm..you know I live in Ireland. But Ireland hasn't the worst healthcare system in the world. I hope you're not one of those people who gets pissy in the ER when they're waiting hours to have a sprained knee looked at, while people with stab and shotgun wounds get seen before you :OP

Wook

well , you know as well as i do , that the healthcare does not have to be this way.
things can be done better.
agree ?