---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Well Fred since you can do it. Health care isn't health care at all it's Sick Care & I appreciate your comments Susan & yours to Fred. I tend to come down on the perspective of Susan as my own true health care is primarily my responsiblity. Sick care which is the topic of this thread is an insurance for the unexpected which thrives on fear & fear can command any price it wants. This is what Susan I beleive is saying I kind of resent paying the Sick care premiums becasue frankly it's basic major medical & I've have used it only a couple of times in 25 years. Hey self employed people can't afford to be sick. But when you need it you do so gotcha! My true health providers are my chiropractor, homeo path , massage therapist & the acupunctureist. True health care is expensive but effective & nobody including uncle Sam is going to pay for it. What's the answer for sick care. Hey dont' get sick.grin Dale >This is on topic because this discussion is about how piano technicians >are held hostage by our health care system. I "just say no." Yes, I can hear you from here -- all the reasons you MUST be insured! Is anyone else old enough to remember when no one had health insurance, and we didn't miss it? It's not as if insurance could keep you from getting sick -- all it does is pay out money when you are sick. Has anyone noticed how many doctor-caused diseases and medical problems are out there? How many times does going to a doctor give someone a false sense of security, when really all they got was a palliative, allowing the disease process to continue unchecked? Well, those are my rationalizations, anyway, but I have done without health insurance since I left Canada in 1980. So far, I'm still alive and kicking. If I break a tooth, I get it fixed. I went to a naturopath and got a few blood tests once, and a bone scan. Six years ago, I had 113% of a normal young person's bone density. I stopped worrying about osteoporosis, and see no reason to get tested again. Other than that, I've let doctors do their thing, but without my assistance. I think that the whole system is about to collapse of its own weight. As soon as most people decided that health insurance was indispensable, the prices of services multiplied. It's the insurance which is making everything so unaffordable. I particularly dislike insuring customary and routine services, such as routine dental work. Insurance should be for the unfortunate and unpredictable disasters which happen to a few people, but not everyone. For instance, houses are insured against fire. The few that burn are paid for by the premiums from the many which do not. With health insurance, everyone is going to use the services to a greater or lesser degree, so they are subsidizing a huge infrastructure to insure for a predictable loss. I think that health insurance should be for catastrophic losses, only; but I see no hope that the general public will go along with that. Susan Kline ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/ed/29/47/5d/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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