Micheal Moore

[NapsterNova]

Oh boy

[Kim_Howie]

HERE is the real problem with health care today!!! YOU, ME & THEM ,in other words ALL of us period. I started in the Insurance bus. 35 years ago,we didn't sell health care Insurance. We sold major Medical Hospital plans. They covered hospital stay no Dr bills. First thing people complained it didn't cover the dr. bills, so the dr. put you in the hospital, now it's covered. The expense went up FAST. Now the insurance companies came up with out patient care, we complained about it next. Their complaint was were sent home Tooo early. The costs today are direct results from wanting everything covered. We are all to blame for this, drs. lawyers, patients & the public. Bill you can't blame the Insurance Companies by trying to drop the cost. Again THAT'S WHAT WE WANTED!!!! Denis you stated your wife can't get health insurance because of health problems. Every state in the USA offers COMP HEALTH PLANS. It's the law.Again we wanted this. Check with your Insurance Agent. We live in the greatest Country in the WORLD and we still complain!!! We have the best health care in WORLD bar none. The system is not broken. If you think federal health care is the answer ask the boys up north how will that's working out for them. If you have a heart att. there you have 37% chance of making it!! WOW We are a country of SPOILED BRATTS with 69% of us are dissatisfied. MICHEAL MOORE IS STILL A IDIOT. Sorry for my rant.

[Keith Tedford]

Back in the early spring of 2002 I started having chest pains when exerting myself. I've been known to do that once in a while. With the speed of our system an attempted angioplasty wasn't performed until late in the fall. By then the artery was completely blocked. Fortunately for me, the heart had created a bypass artery on its own. Didn't know that happened before. I might be pushing up daisies by now if it hadn't. Lineups for treatments are so long that people are being shipped south of the border to Buffalo and other places to get emergency surgery done.....at the extra cost to our health care system. Here in Peterborough, they are tearing down a perfectly good hospital that was built in 1950 so that they can build a new one. Like anything government run, they can't seem to spend enough money. Perhaps they should tear down every house in town that was built before 1950. That might get a few people's attention. Shouldn't complain too much though. We don't lose everything if we get sick. Something to be said for that. Of courser we are one of the highest taxed population in the world. Wonder why?

[Schonyenko2]

Sometimes when you use a "quote" it separates above, and below what you wrote.

[Norm reynolds]

Kim
I have to disagree My wife had been laid off two months ago
Me I am on disability and have Medicare My wife has been looking for a job BUT when you hit 55 + no one WILL hire you Any way I have been trying to get Medical Insurance for my wife and this is what am told Since she is a diabetic no insurance company will give her health insurance . I do not know what law you are talking about because after two month s of trying she can not get health insurance. So I know Denis is right here. The insurance companies are all out for them self’s I hate them with a passion
Think what you want but the insurance companies WILL NOT gave you heath insurance
If you have an health issue I know I have tried
Don’t think Michael Moore is far from the truth Most Heath insurance companies are bad new’s

[Kim_Howie]

Norm, Call your state Insurance dept.they can tell about it.

[Kim_Howie]

Norm, PA Ins Dept. # is 1-877-881-6388 or www.insurance.stat.pa.us I think this is the # For the state ins plan 1-800-GO-BASIC Try these. Kim

[ANDY M]

Insurance companies are legalized bookmakers. You bet that something bad will happen, they examine the risk involved (think of it as making the point spread), and bet that it won't happen. Low risk, lower premium. High risk, high or no premium. Like Norm, I too am on disability, but thank God that my wife works for the state. Without her, I would not be on this board, much less the internet.
Michael Moore is not a liar, but is very good at giving up selective information for you to see his point of view. He states facts that prove his point of view, but with no objectivity. Like it or not, the truth is an ugly beast, but it can be twisted like a pair of knickers. There is always the Bell Curve in effect, between outright lies at one end and pure truth at the other. Seek first to understand, so that you can be understood. Better to take a stance based on facts, than an opinion based on emotions. JMHO

[Kim_Howie]

Andy, I don't ever remember being called a leglized bookmaker when I deliver a life insurance check to new widow. In fact I'm the only one that gives her anything except flowers & condolences.

[L-79 Nova]

My brother waited two months for his wife's life insurance check. I wonder what they used that money for?