Doctors Within Borders

You said it perfectly. A voice of reason, thank you!!!

I agree, because I work full-time, have a college degree. My company provides good medical insurance but vision and dental is a reimbursement type of deal. So, I'm saving up to go to the dentist and it's still going to take my job 4-8 weeks to reimburse me after I send in all of the paperwork that I have to get from a dentist. For those that might say get another job, go back to school. First off, in my area jobs are scarce and no thanks to more student loans, b/c I don't qualify for grants.

I agree it needs to be regulated. As other countries do well. Either way right now all of us taxpayers are paying for it anyway. Your premiums are higher, your taxes are higher already to take care of those who can't get care while it's treatable, curable. Instead they show up on your tax dollars when they are so ill, so far down that they wind up in the emergency rooms, or in the streets. No you all can either decide it's ok to let the streets fill up and pretend you aren't contaminated by that, or you can all step up and realize that the rest of the modern world is more civilized than we are when it comes to such basics as health care. Does that mean I want to support Viagra as part of any system, not on your life. It needs regulation. If other countries can do this at lesser costs, why can't we?

I'm truly sorry that you had to go through that, Beth. It's a disgrace that one of the wealthiest and most powerful countries in the world can't take care of their own. Canada, France, England--they've all done it for years! I find it astounding that the government will investigate and stop credit card companies from raising APRs without notice on credit cards, yet they won't investigate insurance companies refusing coverage of certain diseases and/or flat out dumping patients that have paid into the company for years.

Gee...wow...wonder where we could find trillions of dollars? Hmm...maybe the Iraq and Afghanistan 'wars'???

There is such a thing as regulated health care, that is how the rest of the modern world spends less money that we Americans do and manages to provide basic health care for all it's citizens. Don't bury your head in the sand, it's being done well everywhere but in America. I've seen it myself, what the insurance companies have their government puppets sell you is exactly the lie you speak, that its some socialist program. Please wake up like the rest of us have done. I had to find out the hard way after having cancer strike me and I believed I'd paid 35 years for healthcare I was then denied. This will happen to you to, wake up now and realize the rest of the modern world does what we can not , they do it better and cheaper.

Require all banks/lending facilities to wait 10 years before collecting on student loans. Doctors have to pay their bills too.

And how do you expect the doctors to pay for the education they sacrificed to get? No pay the doctors, the nurses, the ones who took out loans to take care of people like you and I. STOP paying the insurance companies who provide nothing to either the doctor or the patient. That is clearly where the problems are. But I have a feeling from your comments that you are either part of the insurance agency or someone who doesn't seek the truth. As I said, when it happens to you...good luck with your convictions keeping you alive. Cause what you think you have earned you will find...you have no rights to thanks to your unwillingness to see the country needs fixing, not scare tactics based in the same lies the WMDs came from.

Uh yeah, actually, that's exactly what it means. In poverty stricken areas, there is a great need for both food pantries AND medical care. I'm not sure I understand your point...

I would suggest that YOU have no idea what you're talking about. You see, I'm originally from the part of SW Virginia that this article is about. In fact, I'm originally Buchanan County, whose county seat is Grundy, Virginia. 30 years ago, BC had 30K+ residents. Today, over 1/3 of the population has left. All because there are NO JOBS. This article is about the sadness of the uneducated and the lack of adequate health care in the area. When most of the kids graduate and some go on to college, those who opt to go off to school do NOT return. The only industry is the dwindling coal production. Yes, there's a law school (for the educated) and now a phamacy school (again, for the educated). But most up in the hollows live barely at the poverty level. You have NO understanding of the culture nor of the geography of SW Virginia, Sickofthewhining. I do. I was born and raised there. Granted, I left in 1978, simply because there is nothing for a woman with a college education to do.

BTW, the vast majority of doctors in the area are foreign born, not home grown. Why? Because homegrown won't stay or come back. I went to school with kids who were on welfare, black lung, or less. This is part of the heart of Applachia. Until you understand that education is the key to EVERYTHING, you will only show your ignorance in your words.

Well, you know you are right that something is wrong. Bill Gates made most of his money illegally by forcing computer manufacturers to use Windows or else Microsoft wouldn't sell them Windows. There wasn't much of an alternative when Microsoft first started doing this but this allowed Microsoft to get Windows in millions, the majority, of computers. They did this for many years. Then the federal government brought anit-trust suits against them because it was indeed illegal. Now, Microsoft is seeing it's business dwindle because of other operating systems such as Linux. The only reason they have so much money in the bank is because of their illegal practices that caused hundreds of software companies to fail resulting in no competitiion to speak of. Now, they are stuck trying to figure out how to make money the honest way as new software firms build better products than they ever dreamed of writing. Your statement, "I guess that is the American way now" is true. We are shooting ourselves in the foot.