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

[Mike Freeman]

The post below is IMO inappropriate for this list; the NFB, of which the Diabetes Action Network is a division, has not taken a position on healthcare reform, pro or con.  This list is not the forum to debate the merits either way.  We are strong because we focus upon the things that unite us -- blindness and diabetes -- rather than upon that which divides us, e.g. politics.

Mike Freeman, List Moderator


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On Oct 15, 2010, at 12:00, "Grant E. Metcalf" <thegems at dslextreme.com> wrote:

> 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 chos
> en 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.
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> South San Francisco, CA 94083-0572
> Phone:  650-589-6890
> Email:  thegems at dslextreme.com
> Website:  http://bartimaeus.us/
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