FCC and the internet

[Harold Sawyer]

I'm so sorry I opened a bag of worms here on Sounder.  Not related to
our list at all.

I might note that my wife of 33 years has been bravely battling cancer
for 3 years.  Though the private insurance company has demanded that
her doctors explain what they want, she has never been denied any
treatment.  She has cost them a fortune, which I believe she is worth,
but someone else might take issue with.  Just brought her home from
the hospital again yesterday, where she was given excellent care.  I
am currently unemployed and she is on leave from her work, possibly
for good.  The current system is still working for us.

Our system isn't perfect, but it works for most, If the safety net
would just spring for the others, like in Germany, it would solve a
lot of problems for us.

We will always pay more per person for care in the US, because we
demand that our old people get everything done for them until they
die, and we finance lawyers and law suits in a way that would surprise
most of you in other countries, all out of our health care costs.

Sorry again for starting this.

Harold

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Michael wrote:
>
>> Harold Sawyer wrote:
>>> Pardon my American distrust of government, but there is little that
>>> the US Government has gotten involved with that has not ended badly,
>>> at least lately.
>> <snipped>
>>
>> And now US citizens actually want its government to get involved in
>> health care.  Think about the last time you had to stand in the line at
>> the DMV.  The post office.  /Any/ government run office.  Yeah,
>> government run health care - NOT!
>
> While you're at it think of the times your insurance denied a procedure
> or medication or dictated what doctors or hospitals you could use or
> required a *gatekeeper* primary care provider to give you permission to
> see a specialist.
>
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