What Do We Work All Our Lives For?

I have been witness to some of the most devastating awakenings that one could definitely have on aging and the health care that this country is dishing out. I am appalled at the way health care is robbing the elderly just when they need them the most.

I have 2 older men who have been severely ill and have required the stay at nursing facilities and the cost is astronomical. These men are retired from jobs they worked all there lives on to have a retirement and now they have lost it all to health care industries,hospitals and nursing homes.

The doctors are no help either. They can't take what the insurance will pay but they want these poor individuals to pay out of pocket the rest of the out ragas bills that have accumulated. Yes,I agree that some of the bill should be paid but on a sliding scale bases. There is no way that these guys can pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for their care that they so desperately needed. It was life or death situations. They were not fly by night patients. One had a heart attack and the other has kidney failure and requires a feeding tube due to a stroke that he had.

Do we work all our lives to only give it back to the government or the insurance agency. If you pay for insurance for a long period of time then it should pay for hospital stays and any other extended care facilities that may be necessary. The facility should accept the insurance payments and be happy with that but they are so greedy that they want to take the shirt of your back and your paints to if they can get them.

They say if we don't have insurance by the end of the year then fines will be written to those who don't have it. Well what are we suppose to do?Take food off our tables to pay for insurance. I don't think that is a good idea. I'm going to make sure my family has something to eat. Health care will have to come later when the money is available.

This is a sad situation and the price of insurance is going to have to lower their price so that the little man can afford it.

They are sending people home with complicated equipment that the family has too much problem operating the machines and with inadequate instructions. Teaching needs to reinforced to alleviate some of the caregivers stress that is already out the ceiling. If we are going to have to do all the care at home, then what are the hospitals for.

Health Care Reform is a good idea but all the leeks need to worked out before it is enforced and start making people pay for something that is not worth the paper it is written on. We don't need a lot of smoke being bellowed up our noses and then only to find out that it don't pay for anything and we still end up footing the bill.

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