Comments on: Universal Health Care – the moral argument against it http://www.gettheskinney.com/2007/10/30/moral_myth_universal_coverage/ Connecting Men with Information they can Trust. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:18:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Gloria http://www.gettheskinney.com/2007/10/30/moral_myth_universal_coverage/comment-page-1/#comment-794 Gloria Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:33:13 +0000 http://www.gettheskinney.com/2007/10/30/moral_myth_universal_coverage/#comment-794 I worry for single moms & kids. If you do not have health insurance there is a good chance you can not take your kids to a doctor as often as you should. My primary care doc told me that he gets less $ today from insurance companies than he did when he first started practicing medicine. I want my doc to make a lot of money. If he feels compensated for his work I believe I get better care. I recently had a routine test at a cost of $300. My doc was paid $118. As a contracting doc he writes off the rest. If I did not have insurance he would bill me for the balance and I would be required to pay it. It does cost a lot less to stay healthy. Corporations give their employees sick leave. But do they want you to take it? No, and some actually punish employees for using it. I worked for a long time for a big insurance company that you all know. If we used sick leave it was charged against our job performance. Does this make a lick of sense to you? It does not to me. I worry for single moms & kids. If you do not have health insurance there is a good chance you can not take your kids to a doctor as often as you should. My primary care doc told me that he gets less $ today from insurance companies than he did when he first started practicing medicine. I want my doc to make a lot of money. If he feels compensated for his work I believe I get better care. I recently had a routine test at a cost of $300. My doc was paid $118. As a contracting doc he writes off the rest. If I did not have insurance he would bill me for the balance and I would be required to pay it.

It does cost a lot less to stay healthy. Corporations give their employees sick leave. But do they want you to take it? No, and some actually punish employees for using it. I worked for a long time for a big insurance company that you all know. If we used sick leave it was charged against our job performance. Does this make a lick of sense to you? It does not to me.

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