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Post by aztec70 on Aug 2, 2010 23:18:58 GMT -8
I note that aztecwin and aztecwilliam are the vast majority of posters. I know that win is covered by tricare. I understand that william's wife works, or worked, for the county and that he is a retired school teacher. I wonder if he has government provided healthcare as well.
Inquiring minds want to know. What say you, aztecwilliam?
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Post by aztecwin on Aug 3, 2010 11:29:53 GMT -8
I note that aztecwin and aztecwilliam are the vast majority of posters. I know that win is covered by tricare. I understand that william's wife works, or worked, for the county and that he is a retired school teacher. I wonder if he has government provided healthcare as well. Inquiring minds want to know. What say you, aztecwilliam? This has come up before. I have both Tricare and Medicare. It is very fine at present. It is just too expensive to extend it to everyone. It is an imputed deferred part of the compensation that many of us earned. Some were never willing to make the sacrifice that is part of serving, but want the benefit anyway. |
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Post by theMesa on Aug 9, 2010 7:01:42 GMT -8
I would tend to believe that those who have some form of government healthcare at this point have "earned" it the old fashioned way, that is, by working a very long time. I am approaching retirement in about 2 years and I am scared that healthcare for seniors will be radically changed ( i.e. rationed, diluted). I have spent about 38+ years (self employed) working hard and contributing (paying in full) to medicare and social security, now the idiots in Washington want to "tinker" with it as I am entering the system. Being that I have to deal with government day in and day out as part of my work, I know that government intervention will be the death of good healthcare. I can guarantee, from my firsthand daily experience, we are doomed to inferior service. As an aside, I am not a member of either political party. Apologies for side tracking a bit, but I getting more bitter by the day.
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Post by aztec70 on Aug 9, 2010 7:37:33 GMT -8
I would tend to believe that those who have some form of government healthcare at this point have "earned" it the old fashioned way, that is, by working a very long time. I am approaching retirement in about 2 years and I am scared that healthcare for seniors will be radically changed ( i.e. rationed, diluted). I have spent about 38+ years (self employed) working hard and contributing (paying in full) to medicare and social security, now the idiots in Washington want to "tinker" with it as I am entering the system. Being that I have to deal with government day in and day out as part of my work, I know that government intervention will be the death of good healthcare. I can guarantee, from my firsthand daily experience, we are doomed to inferior service. As an aside, I am not a member of either political party. Apologies for side tracking a bit, but I getting more bitter by the day. Nice to see a new voice enter into the fray. I am certainly not going to say that government is perfect and that government health care is a panacea for all the ills of the health care system. On the other hand I do not think that private enterprise always gets it right. If that were the case no one would ever go out of business. The fact is it is all run by people. You may not have been privy to all the prior posts. Who in their right mind would want to go back and read them all. I posted this question because it seemed to me that the most against government health care were getting government healthcare. It seemed they were happy with their government health care, yet were against it for the rest of the country. I just wanted to point that out. As to your point about if government gets involved we are doomed to inferior service. That does not seem to be the case elsewhere. In another post I pointed out that our health care system spends more per person and more as a percent of GDP than other developed countrys who had government health care. Those countrys had better health care outcomes than us. I thought it odd that anyone would support a system that cost more and got worse results. I challenged conservatives to explain how this was. None could. |
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Post by AztecWilliam on Aug 9, 2010 10:14:23 GMT -8
I have to buy my own health care insurance. I am with Aetna. My wife gets an allowance to help buy insurance, but that benefit from the county is not guaranteed and could, theoretically, be terminated. We are hoping that it will continue, but if the County's financial status deteriorates, who knows? Anyone who thinks that the worst aspects of socialized medicine found in other countries will not come to our shores under ObamaCare needs to do some homework. You might want to start here . . . www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/07/30/obamacare_means_lower_quality_long_waits_106553.htmlAzWm |
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Post by aztecwin on Aug 9, 2010 12:35:52 GMT -8
Aztec70 is saying what he thinks, not what others have posted or what is true. This has been gone over repeatedly.
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