Doctors Within Borders

It's a shame not to provide medical and dental care for people who have no insurance and no money to pay for it. But not hard to understand how it happens with a government willing to waste so many resources on a useless and uncalled for war. They are just not the kind of people who should run this country. I will duck now while a number of people who think otherwise begin to hurl things in my direction.

I agree with the McGruder comment. It has to be out of the government hands and into the hands of individuals maybe with portable plans. People good...government bad. The government cannot make the decisions for every individual because there is no law or rule that covers all circumstances. Each American or American family must get their own plan and get real about their health situation (meaning smoking, drinking, etc.). It is not all other Americans' fault that some other American smokes. If people would excercise, stop smoking, and stop drinking, I would be out of a job. Dr. W

I say kudos to goodwillhunting22 and what he says has a lot of merit. There are a lot of undeserving people out there that are scamming the system making it worse for those more deserving. With the current system it's not going to change. From experience, I have a cousin that has had several abortions, and 3 children out of wedlock and probably does not know the fathers. She is a professional scammer of the government tit. When she is threatened to be cut off from her unemployment for not working she will find work and work long enough to collect un-employment again. It's become a predictable pattern but our bleeding heart liberal wellfare system keeps rolling over and giving her assistance. In reality what needs to be done is the Child welfare system needs to take her children from her, when she is out bar hopping with the welfare money she scammed, put them in foster homes or up for adoption and eliminate her from the gene pool. All she is doing is teaching her off spring how to scam and use the system and breed like a rat. The sad thing is everyone of you out there either has a relative like that or knows someone that falls in this category either male or female. Most of you are in denial and turn a blind eye when it comes to admitting it. We have turned our backs and elected to let the government deal with our responsibilities thus giving us relief from ours. And yes I'm guilty as charged but it's illegal for me to solve the problem.

If Germany, Canada, Cuba, France, Italy and Great Briatain can have some type of Universal Health Care and make it work, why can't the U.S.? I'll tell you why...GREED! And West Virginia is a drop in the bucket. Why is it that we can take care of other people of the world except ours? Taxes would probably rise but guess what, you won't be be stuck with astronomical bills if something does happen to you, and yes, you can get stuck with bills even if you have health insurance. Higher taxes or possible death, you choose.

THIS IS WRONG EVERYONE IN THIS COUNTRY SHOULD HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE. WE SPEND 12 BILLION DOLLAR'S ON THIS STUPID WAR. BUT PEOPLE GO WITH OUT HEALTH CARE,PEOPLE CAN'T AFFORD THERE MEDICEN SHAME ON THIIS MR BUSH

Interestingly, the current group medical plans were created during WW2 because coal miners were going to strike because the mine owners were making money hand over fist while wages were frozen be Federal mandate. As a work-around, Congress approved a company health plan and gave the companies a tax break to offset the costs. So the miners effectively got a pay raise. Then it spread to other companies. Now the costs have gone through the roof for reasons that I have never seen realistically explained. So what was a reasonable ???system??? has gotten unreasonable. The Federal government caused the current system and now needs to fix it .
Rather than a ???national health care??? system, one alternative is to replace the current group plans with individual or family plans that are portable. To make the plans affordable, a basic coverage can be used as a start with additional coverage chosen ???cafeteria??? style. To make the monthly costs low, the ???high deductable??? route can be used so that the monthly costs for the plan are low. There are lots of people that complain about costs but still have cell phones, buy beer regularly, and buy lots of crap that ends up being sold at yard sales. With some basic education and some basic changes, most people would be able to afford at least the basic care.
To further lower costs, if anybody has a lifestyle that increases illnesses and medical costs, they should pay more for being stupid. If you are stupid enough to smoke cigarettes, you should pay more for being stupid. If you are obese, you should pay more for overeating. If you use drugs, you should pay more for being stupid. If you drink too much, you should pay more. The rest of us should not have to pay more for people who are stupid. Any of these stupid people would be able to pay for an individual medical plan by stopping the things that they do because they are stupid.
A PBS show about effective medical systems in other countries (none of which were modeled after the US system), showed that medical plans can be run by public companies without becoming a government-run system. There is no reason why we can???t do it here.

Having lived and practiced in both the USA and Europe I can confirm that there are no "waiting lists" for services. These stories are propaganda planted by greedy insurance companies that don't want Americans to find out they are paying twices as much as they need to for inferior access to care. In fact the services are generally better and easier to access in Europe. The final insult is that the easy access and superior care that Europeans enjoy, actually costs half as much as we pay in premiums.
Check the facts at: http://www.accc-chiro.com/National%20Health%20Care%20ACCC%2006.ppt

It really bothers me that Medicaid does not pay for dental care. I see children who are not yet 18 with scraggly teeth, etc. How are they to find decent jobs. One person told me that the reason why she has never tried to get a good job sorting and delivering mail downtown or with a courier service, rather than at mailing houses, is because of her teeth.

First of all "Fat Joey" Doctors don't "get rich" it takes decades to pay of the tens of thousands of dollars they spend on education, then their salary goes to paying for malpractice insurance, licensing fees, etc. On top of this they are on call 24 hours a day pretty much for the rest of their lives.

What we need is a government health insurance plan for all Americans that is similar to, if not identical to, the system that the Vetrans Administration uses. I applaud the VA for providing the best and most efficient care for our nations veterans and also for operating "Stand Downs" similar to RHA every year in communities all across the country.

Oh, my Goodness! What about a medical-dental VISTA? I went into medicine to help people, to be able to give of myself, my caring, my medical knowledge to those in need. Contrary to popular belief, I believe that a lot of health care professionals would look upon the opportunity to help the less fortunate without monetary charge. Surely that could be a reachable star. Thanks. "Dr. D."

I understand that people do need help; especially the kids. Although, adults in their 20's having to pull all of their teeth is pure irresponsibility. I wonder why alcoholism and drug addiction was not addressed. There was definitely a side of the story that was left untold. It is sad that there are kids growing up learning this type of lack of personal responsibility and hygeine. I am a single mom without a college degree living in Southern California. I work two jobs, own a small condo, teach my son responsibility and pay for his medical and dental insurance. I work unbelievably hard to take care of my family; I should not be forced to pay for someone else's. My prayers are with the kids.