Healthcare Update — 01-28-2013

You can keep your doctor and your insurance … if you can afford it. Some insurance brokers expect health insurance premiums to triple in the fall prior to full implementation of Obamacare. Oh, and if you can’t afford that insurance, plan to pay a punitive tax. But don’t worry, Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant thinks that everything is fine now. Everyone in America has health care. All they have to do is go to the emergency room. Once no one can afford private insurance due to premium hikes, then government funding cuts can affect essential hospital services – like what is happening in Australia. Should smokers and obese patients be left to their own vices? Is increasing their insurance premiums an additional 50% above regular policy premiums under Obamacare enough? How do you get chemotherapy, heart surgery, mental health treatment, and a wheelchair when you have no insurance, no home, and no money to pay for your health care? Threaten the life of the president and his family. Homeless Florida man makes habit of threatening sitting presidents when he needs a place to stay or he needs medical care … and it works. Sad that federal prisoners receive better medical care than many hardworking law-abiding citizens. Smoking decreases life expectancy by 10 years. Risk is decreased by 90% if smoking stops before age 40.  Most of the excess mortality among smokers was due to neoplastic, vascular, respiratory, and other diseases that can be caused by smoking. The probabi...
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