Health Insurance for RPT's?

[David Ilvedson]

Dean,

Do you have a fund for an emergency?   I imagine a car wreck could possibly happen even to your family?   

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, California



----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Dean May" <deanmay at pianorebuilders.com>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Received: 4/14/2006 5:52:09 AM
Subject: RE: Health Insurance for RPT's?


>Mark wrote:
>>There are well over 40 Million people in the U.S. who have no health 
>>coverage. What do they do when they get sick? Do you think they just 
>>suffer alone until they either get better without help or die? No, they 
>>go to the emergency room, the #1 most expensive form of health care. Who 
>>do you think pays for that? (We do.) And wouldn't it have been better if 
>>they could have had their problem treated in a more appropriate, timely 
>>and cost effective manner? The cost of one ER visit would cover several 
>>problems handled at the right level, i.e. early when it's still a small 
>>problem.

>Well, Mark, I am one of the 40 million. I haven't had "heath insurance" (it
>actually insures poor health for all practical purposes) for 20 years and
>I'm not complaining. In fact, losing health insurance has been perhaps the
>greatest blessing my family has ever experienced. It forced us to get
>serious about our health and our relationship to God. We made major diet
>modifications and instituted a family policy that we would not go to a
>doctor without first having the elders of the church anoint with oil and
>pray. I could tell you scores of stories that you would flat not believe,
>but my children first hand witnessed God answering those prayers. Rare is
>the time when we have had to use a doctor. Several of my children have never
>ever had an antibiotic or vaccination. And I have 11 children.

>20 years with no insurance and 8 of my children were born during that
>period. That was 8 live births and 2 miscarriages with no hospitalizations
>and only a handful of doctor visits. Also during that 20 year period we had
>2 trips to the emergency room. Yet I dare say we have paid the "health care"
>system (aka, money sucking vortex) far less during those 20 years than we
>would have had we been plugged into the system. 

>And that, quite honestly, is what is wrong with most of your points, Mark.
>You presume being plugged into the system and the only options you present
>are those the system allows. But the last 20 year history of my family is
>living proof that there is another system, one that I have only outlined
>here in very scant terms. It is a far better alternative, one that really
>does insure health as best as it can be insured. 

>Now if you want the government to "fix" the system, may I suggest you
>remember how well they fixed Katrina. 


>Dean
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