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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 06:52 PM Original message |
The term "uninsured" is muddying the waters |
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Yael (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 06:54 PM Response to Original message |
1. Underinsured is the issue. Health care coverage as a for-profit commodity |
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XboxWarrior (369 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 07:25 PM Response to Reply #1 |
8. Underinsured is NOT... |
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Lars39 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 07:27 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Both are issues....you are just as liable to lose your house from not |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 07:30 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Like I always say.. Insurance is the PROBLEM..not the solution |
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Yael (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 09:22 PM Response to Reply #8 |
21. Uninsured is a given. Underinsured is the issue with the crisis because they aren't |
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PDJane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 06:55 PM Response to Original message |
2. Single-Payer health care. |
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BlueManDude (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 07:06 PM Response to Original message |
3. My BC/BS premium went from $380/mo to $535/mo in December... |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 07:09 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Just what they wanted.. less chance of having to pay for something |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 08:20 PM Response to Reply #3 |
20. Same thing happened to me two years ago |
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MagickMuffin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 07:17 PM Response to Original message |
5. My household has NO INSURANCE |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 07:18 PM Response to Original message |
6. The term is "UNDERinsured." nt |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 07:25 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Our politicians harp on and on about covering the UNinsured. |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 07:50 PM Response to Reply #7 |
16. Actually, people with no insurance know they have none. The 'underinsured' don't know it... |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 07:26 PM Response to Original message |
9. The 'uninsured' are NOT the poor, the elderly, the children, |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 07:29 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. exactly.. they muddy the waters |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 08:08 PM Response to Reply #12 |
18. And even being insured doesn't help much. |
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OzarkDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 07:29 PM Response to Original message |
11. Uninsured and underinsured - different but equally important categories |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 07:32 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. "...take care of both..." |
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OzarkDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 08:06 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Same thing |
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proud patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 07:32 PM Response to Original message |
14. I owe about $1500 in medical bills |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 08:13 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. I know what you mean. I had an emergency appendectomy last |
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PDJane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 09:44 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. There are days and times |
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