Comments on: Health and Health Care: What I am thankful for this year http://blog.communispace.com/index.php/2009/11/24/health-and-health-care-what-i-am-thankful-for-this-year Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:37:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: heather c http://blog.communispace.com/index.php/2009/11/24/health-and-health-care-what-i-am-thankful-for-this-year/comment-page-1#comment-387 heather c Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:09:51 +0000 http://blog.communispace.com/?p=1952#comment-387 i took care of my father-in-law the last year of his life, which included a 2&1/2 month hospital stay in the VA hospital. i know exactly what you are talking about about. thank god for the patients' bill of rights, which i had to bring up several times. i think a government option that competes with privately owned insurance companies would be a good thing. after all, if it isn't competetive, no-one will want it. private insurance companies and drug companies already charge people a fortune, and in some cases, won't pay for life-saving treatments. it should be regulated. power companies are regulated. construction companies are regulated. doctors are regulated. banking will be more regulated, so that the powerful and greedy can no longer steal from the nation, and loot their workers' retirement funds. i think competency and compassion are what is lacking overall in the insurance industry as a whole, and a little regulation may be the solution. i took care of my father-in-law the last year of his life, which included a 2&1/2 month hospital stay in the VA hospital. i know exactly what you are talking about about. thank god for the patients’ bill of rights, which i had to bring up several times.
i think a government option that competes with privately owned insurance companies would be a good thing. after all, if it isn’t competetive, no-one will want it.
private insurance companies and drug companies already charge people a fortune, and in some cases, won’t pay for life-saving treatments. it should be regulated. power companies are regulated. construction companies are regulated. doctors are regulated. banking will be more regulated, so that the powerful and greedy can no longer steal from the nation, and loot their workers’ retirement funds.
i think competency and compassion are what is lacking overall in the insurance industry as a whole, and a little regulation may be the solution.

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