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If you were among those without insurance, you either forwent care as long as you could, at a substantial risk to your life, or you asked for charity, never a pleasant task for an elderly person who has always taken pride in paying their bills. So many died from delaying care.
...and those are the days Ryan and the Republicans want to return us. There was a good reason my Dad used to call the "reactionaries" and the "Party for the rich."
Sounds like this "pre-medicare" doctor already "has his living made", and won't have to endure the government, price-controlled healthcare that is coming.
If you were among those without insurance, you either forwent care as long as you could, at a substantial risk to your life, or you asked for charity, never a pleasant task for an elderly person who has always taken pride in paying their bills. So many died from delaying care.
But the GOP in its current form would LOVE to return to those good old days, because working Americans are no longer their concern.
Give them credit; they're working like hell for their constituency.
If you were among those without insurance, you either forwent care as long as you could, at a substantial risk to your life, or you asked for charity, never a pleasant task for an elderly person who has always taken pride in paying their bills. So many died from delaying care.
If you don't value your health enough to save up to take care of yourself, then why should I care?
Liberals hope to run up as many bills as they can and then die leaving the payment for the next generation to deal with. That is the definition of selfish greed.
If you don't value your health enough to save up to take care of yourself, then why should I care?
Liberals hope to run up as many bills as they can and then die leaving the payment for the next generation to deal with. That is the definition of selfish greed.
Yep "save up" for the hundreds of thousands end of life care will cost you.
I just wish more republicans would actually SAY THIS IN PUBLIC!
Sounds like this "pre-medicare" doctor already "has his living made", and won't have to endure the government, price-controlled healthcare that is coming.
Let me join in with you on this attack of the messenger since I know a bit about him from fairly close up.
Having lived in Kansas all my life and certainly since 1957 when I got out of the Army I think I can tell you some things about "Dr" Bill Roy that I really believed in when Medicare came into existence but since I changed political parties in 1972 much of that thinking in support of Bill Roy did an about turn.
I remember Old Bill as a strong Democrat leader in a strong Republican state. He was a Republican until about 1970 when he changed to run for the US House of Representatives. He was in the House as a Democrat, a thing that doesn't often happen in Kansas, for two terms and then he tried to get into the Senate. He ran against Bob Dole and lost and then lost to Nancy Landon Kassebaum and lost again.
I will tell you a bit more about Bill Roy that I took from Wikipedia, which I really don't like to do but am lazy this morning.
Since 1989, Roy has been a regular columnist for The Topeka Capital-Journal. His columns often reflect a liberal perspective, including support for abortion rights[2] and opposition to the policies of President George W. Bush.[4] His 2001–2002 columns in The Topeka Metro News[citation needed] rallied sentiment to stop the sale of Kansas Blue Cross Blue Shield to Anthem of Indianapolis (now merged into Wellpoint).[5]
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Yep, old Bill became a very solid Democrat and just as much against the GOP as I am against his new party. The funny part of it all is that we made our switches about the same time.
I don't think Roy had a lot to do with the failure of Anthem to take over Kansas BC/BS. Nope, I always blamed that success on the then Insurance Commissioner, Kathleen Sebelius, who later became the Governor and now serves The Anointed One as Secretary of HHS and will be very important in the bureaucratic decisions about all health care if Obama manages to win again. I voted for her for all those offices above but she couldn't get my vote for city dog catcher since all her lies about Obamacare have been told.
If you were among those without insurance, you either forwent care as long as you could, at a substantial risk to your life, or you asked for charity, never a pleasant task for an elderly person who has always taken pride in paying their bills. So many died from delaying care.
How long did you have to search to find that opinion piece from that relatively obscure Kansas newspaper? I am using that attack the messenger tactic you libs like so well. Does it feel good to get it used on you?
According to the Wikipedia article about Bill Roy, it seems that he practiced medicine few years after Medicare came into existence. In fact he was elected to the US House Representatives, as a Democrat, about 1970 and after two terms was unsuccessful in runs against Bob Dole and Nancy Landon Kassebaum. He did practice a bit in those years but not much.
If you don't value your health enough to save up to take care of yourself, then why should I care?
Liberals hope to run up as many bills as they can and then die leaving the payment for the next generation to deal with. That is the definition of selfish greed.
How much do you have saved up? To do that would require a person to have a second job all through adulthood. My FIL had gall bladder surgery 4 years ago and, due to his age, required 18 days in ICU and 7 weeks in a rehab nursing home. His retail cost bill would have been over $120,000. Now he's sick again and has been in and out of hospitals and nursing homes for the past 3 months. Just how much money do you think a person should save up? Where is the average American going to get that much money?
Realistically, you have to mean that each and every American can save $1,000,000 above and beyond what is needed for retirement living.
Somebody that believes this: Please explain how it is possible.
If you were among those without insurance, you either forwent care as long as you could, at a substantial risk to your life, or you asked for charity, never a pleasant task for an elderly person who has always taken pride in paying their bills. So many died from delaying care.
WRONG..
Medicare is NOT the same as the law which requires people to be treated at hospitals.
Are the only important people in your mind the elderly because it sure sounds like it.
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