tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786818.post540129729866825748..comments2024-03-18T17:08:18.111-05:00Comments on Fatale Abstraction: It's a crazy, mixed-up world.phlegmfatalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08636803080525003892noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786818.post-27285127578882336812009-06-27T09:02:30.466-05:002009-06-27T09:02:30.466-05:00It's interesting that the vast majority of Ame...It's interesting that the vast majority of Americans are happy with their health care, even if it's expensive. If the Democrats get their way it will be more expensive and far fewer people will be happy with it. <br /><br />For the record, Ambulance Driver got that saying from me.TOTWTYTRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17221321904364051792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786818.post-80926345652281273162009-06-24T00:42:32.932-05:002009-06-24T00:42:32.932-05:00I started to post something earlier, but decided t...I started to post something earlier, but decided to roll it through my noggin a little more first. <br /><br />Consider this:<br /><br />Imagine a potentially fatal genetic disease that hits in the fourth decade of life, for which there is no cure, per se, but there are therapies to slow, if not nearly halt, the progression of the damage for years. The therapy is expensive- anywhere from 80 to 120k per year, but is available from three producers and is covered by most insurance providers and Medicade. Medicare provides substantial underwriting, but all three are largely 80% covered for the cost. <br /><br />There are approximately 5 to 10 thousand people in the US who have been diagnosed with this, but statistics indicate there could be as many as one hundred thousand who will develop symptoms, and simple Punnett square calculations indicate that 300,000 are carriers of the defective gene. <br /><br />Roll those numbers around for a moment. <br /><br />Untreated, the mean life expectancy is 52 years, with the last 10 of those in a significantly debilitated state. Treatment, while costly, can result in a relatively normal life expectancy roughly equal to the mean of the general population, or another 26 years or so. <br /><br />Somehow, I'm not at all convinced this one is going to make the "A" list for inclusion. <br /><br />Regards,<br />Rabbit.Rabbithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09924556230506190220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786818.post-36844109936620889602009-06-23T13:15:27.280-05:002009-06-23T13:15:27.280-05:00Considering the unwillingness to purchase our debt...Considering the unwillingness to purchase our debt, I'm thinking they won't be able to scratch up enough money to buy a bandaid. The congressfolks will posture and gnash their teeth, but in the long run, the only thing that will happen will be too much wasted space on the evening news.Jonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786818.post-52210017996729924982009-06-23T11:12:11.151-05:002009-06-23T11:12:11.151-05:00I've had "good" health insurance tha...I've had "good" health insurance that did little and I've had "bad" health insurance that did less, I've had a HUGE GALAXY of stuff my employer stuffed down my throat and I couldn't eat, and expensive stuff I bought myself and nibbled on. Currently I have Kaiser via my wife's employer, which I take in little bites - but I spend more on dental care than physiological/animatronic, and that's outside "Teh Healthcare."<br /><br />What's the big freaking Universal deal? There really is NOT one, not until it get's desperate and serious and tearful with blood everywhere - and then guess what? Regular-Joe Healthcare doesn't do it either.<br /><br />All this La-La-La Fluffy Bunny Healthy Hippo Happy Horses Healthcare is for band-aids and sprains and poison-ivy - kids with skinned knees who need a tetanus shot and oldsters who need some blood-pressure medication. What they want is to intervene in <br />"LIFESTYLE CHOICES" - which mainly matters to pregnant women.<br /><br />And to do this they will implement a plan that will bring down and destroy the Insurance Industry and have *Government* run even more of the Financial System in a way that is NOT transparent but completely opaque and mysterious, with money disappearing down one rabbit hole after another into their Alice-In-Wonderland Mad Hatter Economy.<br /><br />Universal Healthcare is a fake.NotClauswitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14358707844087117280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786818.post-70388068648001909552009-06-23T10:12:04.005-05:002009-06-23T10:12:04.005-05:00All we have to do is look and MediCare and the VA ...All we have to do is look and MediCare and the VA system to see how the .gov does with healthcare.Rustmeisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16706110699686013722noreply@blogger.com