One Canadian's Comments On Life Lucien W. Dupont's weblog

Unhealthy America – NYTimes.com

Worth the read, some choice quotes:

“I will never forget standing outside the chemo treatment room knowing that the medication needed to save my life was only a few feet away, but that because I had private insurance it wasn’t available to me,” Linda wrote. “I read a comment from someone saying that they didn’t want a faceless government bureaucrat deciding if they would or would not get treatment. Well, a faceless bureaucrat from my private insurance made the decision that I wouldn’t get treatment and that I wasn’t worth saving.”

Likewise, Americans take 10 percent fewer drugs than citizens in other countries — but pay 118 percent more per pill that they do take, McKinsey said.

Remind me again why people don’t want to change American health care?

Op-Ed Columnist – Unhealthy America – NYTimes.com

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How sad! We have had such difficulties with insurance companies as many others in America have. We spent $30,000 in legal fees to get disability for a family member who had MS. IT’s a disgrace! Insurance companies should have bonded together years ago and developed a plan to cover the uninsured and keep costs down. But they didn’t. They were too greedy.