So, Obama-care is like a bad prequel of Logan’s Run.

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TRICARE is what the military has and can be a major pain in the ass to work with. When I came down with pneumonia years ago at Fort Jackson they could not treat me there at the base hospital because I was “too sick”. So they put me on an ambulance and rather then send me to one of the local hospitals in Columbia, an aprox 15 min drive, They sent me to Eisenhower medical center which is in Fort Gordon GA. That drive was about an hour and a half. Eisenhower is a nice enough hospital and the nurses there were great but Eisenhower is a training hospital and when your a lone spec4 surrounded by brand new shiny butter bars who think your the greatest thing since slice bread becuase they get some “REAL TRAINING” it does get to be a tad uncomfortable.
It is true that under TRICARE that I don’t have to pay a dime to go see a Doctor as long as there is a TRICARE hospital nearby. But get stationed anywhere away from one of those facilities then get sick or hurt you are going to pay 75% of your health bill becuase TRICARE doesn’t pick up the bill from any hospitals that don’t belong to there network. The caveat being that said sickness or injury doesn’t occur in the line of duty.
The VA hospitals are a nightmare and the poor staff at one is overworked and under appreciated. They just don’t have the time to give each and every patient the one on one care there illness or injury deserves. As a Medic in an out aways area of VA I often have to find creative ways to make things be LOD so I can send my guys to a local hospital and the Army picks up the tab, rather then send them to a VA hospital, still an hour away from us, and sometimes I have to be REAL creative.

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Is anybody beginning to feel dirty just reading these Democrat proposals?

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This goverment and country is morally bankrupt.

We allow infanticide, abortion, assisted suicide for the terminally ill.

Check this out. A program at HUD called HOPWA http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/aidshousing/programs/ allows the housing costs, defer foreclosure, day to day costs, medical treatment, and utilities to be paid from HUD housing fees for individuals with HIV/AIDs.

There are no other programs in the U.S. where you can use Federal money from HUD for ‘cost of living, utilites, and medical expenses’. NONE. Accept this one.

People that are dying from natural causes get the assistance of the Goverment to commit suicide, but if you have gotten HIV/AIDs from drug use, sexual activity, or lifestyle– then all heck…..we will open the Federal checkbook and give you money we won’t for any other people that are dying.

Remember the old, ill, handicapped are a financial drain on the system so the goverment will help them ‘exit life’. But people with HIV/AIDs are worth much much more and are allowed to drain the system.

Next time you close a mortgage loan ask for money for utilities and medical treatment in the future and that noise that follows will be laughter. Say you are dying, you will hear laughter. Say you have HIV/AIDs……’ca-ching’ $$$$.

Think of how discriminatory this is……

We are all equal, some are just more equal than others.

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Funny! The left has so long claimed to be champion of the little people. Now they want to kill them off. (Except of course for the unborn, they’ve always been for killing them off). If you’re old, gotta go. Got aids, count the days. I say start with Congress first. Start with the Speaker and work your way down.

@ james manning
You’re a little mistaken there sir. Federal employees don’t have a single payer system. Federal Employee Healthcare Site As for the VA, you don’t wanna go there. I suffered a training accident while in the Air Force. That’s what they call it anyway. After Hell Week, we upset our instructors and had to run Heartbreak Hill. The thing had a 60º slant, I swear it. We had to run up and then turn around and walk down. After the 1000th time, (or at least it seemed that way), I turned to walk back down and turned my ankle. I ripped three ligaments in my ankle. The docs took great care of me at Lackland AFB, it has a great hospital. But I had to wait till I got to my permanent station for surgery. Once there, the closest Ortho Surgeon was at a VA hospital. It was like walking into a WWII movie. No thanks. If you want VA coverage, join the military and retire. I’ll pass thanks.

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Notes on the IHA. Can You say Government Single Payer?

GAO: Indian health agency still losing equipment
http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2009/06/04/news/state/186729.txt
Indian Health Care’s Broken Promises
http://www.reznetnews.org/article/indian-health-cares-broken-promises-35270
http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/411236_indian_health_system.pdf
I’m very sure that You don’t want that Program but You will get a “reasonable facsimile” from Program Health Care. Anything the Government runs gets corrupted, meets few needs, costs too much on a Cost vs Benefit factor and and is MisManaged.
“That can’t happen to Me?” Yes it can if Obama Care gets rammed up your backside. Believe that Folks!
 

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*CRAP is “ENTITLED” or believes He is and drinks the Kool Aid daily.
*Health Care is not now a Right nor has it ever been.
*COBRA, Medicare, Medicaid, Private Insurance and such are PROGRAMS.
*Without Supplemental Coverage, Medicare and Medicaid have Co-Pays. All PROGRAMS have Premiums.
*Even Indigents can get care.
*The Indian Health Agency is Free but the care is sub-standard and underfunded and you must be Qualified to reside on a BIA Reservation where Life is crap.
* There is No Free Health Care worth a tinkers damn and No Free Lunch. Someone pays for it.  You Kulaks like me pay.
Team Obama’s “Medical Experts” are “Professionals, as the old Groucho Marx  quote goes, “If You don’t believe it, wait til You get the Bill!!!”

PROGRAMS will break America because there are too many and poorly managed.

America, Wake Up!
You are about to get fooled again!
 
 
 
 
 

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Well James, let us introduce you to one… one of FA’s token leftists, “Real American Patriot”, or CRAP as we call him.

CRAP informed us he has on unemployment since Sept 2008, and blames Bush, of course. He also says that unemployment exists so he doesn’t have to take a lesser paying job.

CRAP is not alone in that mentality, even if you don’t find them in your circle of friends and acquaintances. Needless to say, after the lip service we gave him for that attitude, he’s not been back (July 6th).

Or perhaps he finally took one of those lesser paying jobs since the unemployment free ride would be drying up, depending on his state of residence. He’s probably run out of extensions by now.

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Hmmmmm….. I guess those thoughts should have crossed the minds of the Obie voters last November.

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I don’t know anyone that has been laid off that isn’t looking for a job because of unemployment benefits. Do you know how much they get? At most $400 per week – max. You can’t live off that in Chicago.  That’s a quarter of her salary but the bills are pretty much the same.
For anyone looking for a job it is much harder because there are so many more people out there to compete with. So instead of taking 3 or 4 months to find a job it may take about a year.
And the government does pick up something for Cobra (which I’m sure you are against them doing) but again, when you’ve lost 75% of your income survival mode kicks in and keeping a roof over your head and food in the fridge comes before shelling out money for healthcare.
It’s not easy on anyone right now and imagine it will be this way for a couple of years.

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