Bebe92583 wrote:I have good insurance no co-pays -no deductibles even though I am dependent upon insurance connected with SSI benefits but then California has always been noted for its excellent medical insurance for the poor, children, and disabled. all medical services are covered free of charge.The problem is other states don't provide adequate coverage for the poor,children,or disabled. I was on Facebook last night reading the wall of a "friend and I remember feeling extremely angry and her story is a shining example why the poor and disabled in other states don't have adequate coverage. For the sake of anonymity we will call her "Susie" Susie has had 5 pregnancies ,4 living children and is pregnant with her 6th child all while on Welfare she was wildly posting about "Impeaching" The president for unknown crimes of her choosing and ill informing those who deigned to give her the time of day. that the simple act of charging Obama would strip his pension ,all legislation passed during his term in office etc would be declared null and void......... what angered me was not her lack of education or knowledge that to lose his pension he would have to be convicted of high crimes or misdemeanors. that's par for the course. many don't know the difference.was that she is actually the embodiment of why people are angry about the social welfare system Susie and her husband own a 4 bedroom house yet have been on food stamps medi cal and cash aid since their first child was born 10 years ago She has her pregnancies timed so that the moment the government would require her to go to work or job training when the youngest child reaches age 2 she is pregnant again.Once upon a time Hubby worked for Verizon until he decided he did not want to work and attempted to get disability for "Varicose Veins" which of course was denied.I was so tempted to blast her out of the water and tell her that almost no one who knew the truth about her would give much credibility to anything she had to say . She professes to be "Republican" but yet she is exactly what they are complaining about when they blast social welfare. I am the first to acknowledge and sympathize with her to a point over the loss of her first daughter to a rare genetic Illness as an infant except for the fact that as soon as she found out her daughter would not survive she and hubby immediately set to work getting pregnant with her 4th child so welfare would not send her to work. her father in law had nerve enough to brag about the success of their efforts :O end of rant...........Sorry HLB didnt mean to take the floor from youThis story is part of the flip side to the coin that most people can't see. Welfare fraud. As I see you mentioned California, it could also be why the entire state is totally bankrupt. I've seen my share of mothers that play that way with their children in Idaho too. No state is immune from welfare abuse. The sad thing about it, is that it raises the costs for medical care for everyone. Especially those with good insurance, and low deductibles, and low premium rates. the added costs are passed on to the people who play by the rules. Medical costs have not gone down with the advent of Obama care. Fraud however has also increased, because it pays better than working, in most cases when children are involved. Obama's dream of universal single payer medical care is a good idea, it just doesn't address the costs involved in caring for people who abuse the system. The bureaucracy also is why it is failing to win the hearts of actual taxpayers towards it's support. If a plan doesn't eliminate the fraud at all levels, it will never be viable for a long term future. SSI will be bankrupt too, by the time I am 64. I will likely never see a single worthless dime I paid into the system since I was 14 years old.
In a way, it is good for me to spend my cash right now while it still has some value and has already been taxed. I got more value for my money towards my medical care, because it wasn't filtered through so many hands, and bureaucracy.
Think about how Greece got itself in the financial mess, that has the entire EU in a panic. The story of California and several other states, and the entire nation of America is nearly the exact same thing. To many people who have to rely on the government for survival. Nobody wants a pay-cut. People can't even get into bank accounts now in Greece. Governments end up printing inflated money to pay those debts eventually. Without serious social change in America, this nation will look like a 2nd world nation in 40 years.
Spend your children's inheritance now, while it still can buy something and you have access to it. LOL
The Drive for COPD, is very well advertised here. every 30 minutes on the radio. It was very informative to read your point of view about the disease. It is an issue that certainly needs to be addressed in America. I think your doing the best thing though, by being active with the COPD community.
We can't really effect a change in the way our governments think, and plan for the general population. The bureaucracy is to firmly footed into it's very core existence of self preservation at the expense of the general population.
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