If you like your doctor you can keep your whining to yourself. The new American healthcare: Only the rich get doctors.

[Hang on Sloopy]

Its because we are the only 1st world nation without medical healthcare.

wasn't bammy care going to solve this you god damned idiot

 

[Hang on Sloopy]

If we Boomers are hoarding everything why are you alive?

they live with mommy until their 40

 

[Moonglow]

I think that last part really gets to the core of the problem. So many of us want to pretend that doctors and hospitals are, or should pretend to be, something other than businesses that need to turn a profit. We deify doctors and imagine that health care is a "good will" service that should (somehow) be free for all. That's just not reality, and denying reality never ends well.

I support my healthcare by paying taxes...

 

[Moonglow]

they live with mommy until their 40

Not my kids they hate their Mother.

 

[Stormy Daniels]

I have a person physician and a physician group. I am certainly not rich. I just made a conscious decision years ago. I can usually get in to see them on short notice, they have full admitting authority if I need it. It is really rare for me to go to a convenient care facility, and then only if I am losing blood, somebody needing to give me a stitch in time, or am injured in another state on some mountainside. I have not been to an ER since I retired from the military, back in the late 90s except for my last skiing accident. Everything goes through them. The get copies of all tests and review them. They recommend my specialists and surgeons. My healthcare is covered under Medicare and Tri-Care and it is rare for me or my wife to see a bill that comes out of my pocket.

If you do not have a primary care physician, you have learned to trust, that has all your records, even military treatment records in whatever country, going back 40 or 50 years, you should consider making a change.

Sounds and awful lot like a "concierge medicine service" to me.

 

[Stormy Daniels]

I am pissed that I live in a Socialist shithole where I am taxed to pay other people's bills.

You're welcome to leave any time you would like. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

 

[Flash]

Boomers are a tidal wave of trouble.

They didn't ask to be born of course, but they're hoarding everything.

Not a popular generation.

Except among themselves; they think they're the best.

So you are butt hurt over Boomers? LOL!

Why should I have to pay somebody else's health care bills? Why don't they pay their own?

 

[Zincwarrior]

they live with mommy until their 40

They have to Boomer.

 

[Zincwarrior]

So you are butt hurt over Boomers? LOL!

Why should I have to pay somebody else's health care bills? Why don't they pay their own?

Why should we pay for your social security? Fuck you too.

 

[White 6]

I'm not sure you grasp how serious the problem is.

But good for you that you have all these resources at your beck and call.

I'm just typical, but made a choice over convenience with less personal care. As far as I know, all military retired are in the same boat or better, but I made a conscious decision. For the first 20 years after retirement, I was covered under two different commercial insurances, my plan and my wife's plan, we had through the corporations we worked for. We made the decision not to work for any company the didn't have and offer benefits. Pretty handy as we had 3 very active kids, one of which developed a lung thing, that defied diagnosis, we could actually see the daily increase in the daily CT Scans while hospitalized. Our daughter snapped the third cervical vertebrate in neck, cleanly on both sides. My wife had breast cancer with lymph node involvement. These were tremendously expensive to get through. We knew stuff like this happened, and chose not to carry the risk by ourselves. So we always carried double family plans, as well as a cancer policy, as cancer ran in her family. It was just decisions we made, rather than pocketing extra money by only having one family policy. Poor short term decisions lead to poor financial outcomes.

 

[sparky]

I support my healthcare by paying taxes...

~S~

 

[MinTrut]

I'm 62 and the men in the family live into their nineties, sorry for your schadenfreude escapes from reality.

A wise poster once observed:

Boomers are a tidal wave of trouble.

They didn't ask to be born of course, but they're hoarding everything.

Not a popular generation.

Except among themselves; they think they're the best.

We need more posters like that.

But yeah - Boomers broke it, and criminal capitalism set it on fire.

 

[Hang on Sloopy]

They have to Boomer.

very true zinc....................we'll be pulling the purse strings into our 90s....we'll be running things because we have a bunch of gender confused cucks.....................we'll have to fuck your younger women too, we need to grow the population and we can't depend on you guys

 

[MinTrut]

If we Boomers are hoarding everything why are you alive?

^ A great example of why Boomers are not so popular among other generations; thank you for providing.

 

[MinTrut]

Sounds and awful lot like a "concierge medicine service" to me.

Exactly.

 

[dudmuck]

I am pissed that I live in a Socialist shithole where I am taxed to pay other people's bills.

 

[Weatherman2020]

A lot of people put the blame on schools being unable to push out enough people. That's definitely a big part of the problem. But that really means that it's the educational system as a whole that is failing our country. We need more medical schools. We need more nursing schools. We need them to be accessible. And we need a greater emphasis on training people to do boots on the ground care positions, as opposed to elitist and corporatist research positions.

Also, we need to abolish health insurance outside of catastrophic care, so that the private health care sector can become a healthy market once again.

Affluent people will be able to retain a personal physician through exclusive “concierge medicine” services. But here’s what others can expect: routine visits with a rotating cast of nurses and physician assistants with increasingly spare and online checkups with doctors.

No one’s promising you can keep your doctor anymore

So Obamacare just helped the rich.
Got it.
Toldjaso

 

[MinTrut]

So you are butt hurt over Boomers? LOL!

Nope.

Just a realist.

Why should I have to pay somebody else's health care bills?

That's what the Xers and Yers and Zers are asking more and more about the Boomers.

I hope patience prevails - 10-20 years seems like a lot of time now, but it'll fly by.

Why don't they pay their own?

See above.

 

[MinTrut]

They have to Boomer.

^ Gets it.

 

[MinTrut]

I'm just typical

Not remotely.

That you think so is part of the problem.

but made a choice over convenience with less personal care. As far as I know, all military retired are in the same boat or better, but I made a conscious decision. For the first 20 years after retirement, I was covered under two different commercial insurances, my plan and my wife's plan, we had through the corporations we worked for. We made the decision not to work for any company the didn't have and offer benefits. Pretty handy as we had 3 very active kids, one of which developed a lung thing, that defied diagnosis, we could actually see the daily increase in the daily CT Scans while hospitalized. Our daughter snapped the third cervical vertebrate in neck, cleanly on both sides. My wife had breast cancer with lymph node involvement. These were tremendously expensive to get through. We knew stuff like this happened, and chose not to carry the risk by ourselves. So we always carried double family plans, as well as a cancer policy, as cancer ran in her family. It was just decisions we made, rather than pocketing extra money by only having one family policy. Poor short term decisions lead to poor financial outcomes.

Sucks to not be you.

Most aren't you.