Comments on: OMFG I’m so tired of this! http://misangela.com/?p=911 If you can't stand the heat, don't read the blog. Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:34:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: misangela http://misangela.com/?p=911&cpage=1#comment-796 misangela Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:57:22 +0000 http://misangela.com/?p=911#comment-796 Well, I met someone personally who went to Costa Rica via one of the big companies on the internet and she absolutely loved it. She said it put US hospitals to shame. Not that it would take MUCH to put the US hospital system to shame, but still. She raved about how awesome everything was and highly recommended Costa Rica. I will probably end up with Costa Rica unless by some oddity it ends up being a similar amount. If so, then I'll stay my ass on my couch to recover, ya know? Nick makes and EXCELLENT Cabana Boy. teehee! :-) Well, I met someone personally who went to Costa Rica via one of the big companies on the internet and she absolutely loved it. She said it put US hospitals to shame. Not that it would take MUCH to put the US hospital system to shame, but still. She raved about how awesome everything was and highly recommended Costa Rica. I will probably end up with Costa Rica unless by some oddity it ends up being a similar amount. If so, then I’ll stay my ass on my couch to recover, ya know? Nick makes and EXCELLENT Cabana Boy. teehee!

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]]> By: Misfit http://misangela.com/?p=911&cpage=1#comment-795 Misfit Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:30:08 +0000 http://misangela.com/?p=911#comment-795 I so sympathize with you on a variety of these issues, but two in this instance stick out: a) insurance, and more broadly, the inept, for-profit health care system.. and b) legitimate information on medical/dental tourism -- I have investigated for both myself and friends/family.. I seem to run into a lot of "tourism" companies promoting the savings while skimming over the quality of care/aftercare, or alternately, various groups representing medical "interests" here in the states who want to preserve patients by using scare-tactics involving horror stories of third-world medicine. I so sympathize with you on a variety of these issues, but two in this instance stick out:

a) insurance, and more broadly, the inept, for-profit health care system..

and b) legitimate information on medical/dental tourism — I have investigated for both myself and friends/family..

I seem to run into a lot of “tourism” companies promoting the savings while skimming over the quality of care/aftercare, or alternately, various groups representing medical “interests” here in the states who want to preserve patients by using scare-tactics involving horror stories of third-world medicine.

]]> By: dave http://misangela.com/?p=911&cpage=1#comment-794 dave Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:14:09 +0000 http://misangela.com/?p=911#comment-794 yeah healthcare is in the shitter. the new ::ahem:: insurance that is available at my job is through Aetna, and they waht to take $54 out of each check just in case I get sick or hurt. oh yeah, I also have a limit of 5 doctors visits per year and no more than $10,000 worth of hospital stays. great so If I get in a wreck or contract some African Ape disease Im out of luck EVEN WITH insurance. yeah healthcare is in the shitter. the new ::ahem:: insurance that is available at my job is through Aetna, and they waht to take $54 out of each check just in case I get sick or hurt. oh yeah, I also have a limit of 5 doctors visits per year and no more than $10,000 worth of hospital stays. great so If I get in a wreck or contract some African Ape disease Im out of luck EVEN WITH insurance.

]]> By: misangela http://misangela.com/?p=911&cpage=1#comment-793 misangela Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:35:32 +0000 http://misangela.com/?p=911#comment-793 If only it was as easy as getting a job for a month. It usually takes months to get the job, months to get the insurance and then they probably won't cover an "elective" surgery such as this. FUCK insurance. Insurance is why the godsdamned procedure costs so much in the first place. If it weren't for insurance jacking up the rates of everything, we could all simply go to the Dr, pay for the service and be happy. Do you think it's reasonable to pay $6k for the surgical instruments that are used on you and then REUSED again and again? I don't. Do you think it cost $20k+ to have a kid in the 60s? I think not, otherwise I'd not be here. The whole thing with hospital stay was just a few hundred dollars. That was before insurance companies. I'd rather run up a credit card than pay an insurance company (extortionists) for anything. If EVERYONE would bow up and tell insurance companies to go fuck themselves, we might could have decent healthcare. Insurance companies fucked it up for everyone and now everyone acts like society will collapse if we don't participate. FUCK THAT. Ahem. Sorry, it's a hot button for me... If only it was as easy as getting a job for a month. It usually takes months to get the job, months to get the insurance and then they probably won’t cover an “elective” surgery such as this. FUCK insurance. Insurance is why the godsdamned procedure costs so much in the first place. If it weren’t for insurance jacking up the rates of everything, we could all simply go to the Dr, pay for the service and be happy. Do you think it’s reasonable to pay $6k for the surgical instruments that are used on you and then REUSED again and again? I don’t. Do you think it cost $20k+ to have a kid in the 60s? I think not, otherwise I’d not be here. The whole thing with hospital stay was just a few hundred dollars. That was before insurance companies. I’d rather run up a credit card than pay an insurance company (extortionists) for anything. If EVERYONE would bow up and tell insurance companies to go fuck themselves, we might could have decent healthcare. Insurance companies fucked it up for everyone and now everyone acts like society will collapse if we don’t participate. FUCK THAT.

Ahem.

Sorry, it’s a hot button for me…

]]> By: Krys http://misangela.com/?p=911&cpage=1#comment-792 Krys Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:09:51 +0000 http://misangela.com/?p=911#comment-792 Get job and hold for 30 days... Get insurance from job, get operation... Throw finger at job... be free. Get job and hold for 30 days…
Get insurance from job, get operation…
Throw finger at job… be free.

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