[Diabetes-talk] the benefits? of National Health Care

[Grant E. Metcalf]

I am on Medicare as a senior citizen and belong to an HMO. Recently when Novolog changed there flex pens the price more than doubled. I immediately ordered the Count-a-dose device from Prodigy using my own money, the HMO would not pay for it. Yesterday when I picked up my vials of insulin the cost was only $10, not including syringes. Syringes cost about the same as the needles for the flex pens. If I still used the pens, the same amount of insulin would cost me $150. Cost is why I made the change. I can throw away half of my open vial and still save money.

Now then, HMO's are an income-based form of National Health Care. The difference between a business-based operation and a government-based health care is that the income-based services and doctors have to perform and provide a quality-based product or they go out of business. Government run, or should I call it what it truly is, socialized medicine, does not have to earn your business and/or money, they just take it and promise what they will never deliver. Under the current health care system as proposed it will penalize private insurers to the point where they are unable to compete and make a profit. So now what you are finding out is that your private insurance companies are trying to stay in business and that is why all of us who would choose to use private insurance will find it increasingly difficult to get and/or afford the products and services we want and need. Germany, England, Canada are all failing or failed government run medical systems and our congress has chosen to follow their example at a time when those countries are trying to encourage private medical programs. Socialism is not the answer, so, becareful what you pray for, you just might get it.

Listening for His shout!

Grant E. Metcalf
Bartimaeus Alliance of the Blind, Inc.
P.O. Box 572
South San Francisco, CA 94083-0572
Phone:  650-589-6890
Email:  thegems at dslextreme.com
Website:  http://bartimaeus.us/



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