Comments on: How Sick are the Uninsured? http://healthblog.ncpa.org/how-sick-are-the-uninsured/ Health Care Policy and Reform Insights | NCPA Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:03:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Elaine C. http://healthblog.ncpa.org/how-sick-are-the-uninsured/comment-page-1/#comment-39065 Elaine C. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:10:39 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/how-sick-are-the-uninsured/#comment-39065 You are cruel, inhuman meanies. Health care is a right, not a right to make money on medical fate. It appears you have validated that America has a well-oiled functioning caste system when it comes to care of the human body. If you can pay for it, you get to live. If not, hey, we have a fine selection of gutters for you to roll over and die in. I am the face of the uninsured. I'm a college graduate, an award-winning writer, over 50 and unable to get insurance that I can afford, or that would do me much good. I've been priced out, and I'm not even a scumbag. One day, your greedy ideology will become subsumed by people so angry at how profits are made at our expense you will have to find a new belief system. You're malevolent and vile. I want to be "free" too, that is, free to live without fear that a mole on my arm will bankrupt my family. You are cruel, inhuman meanies. Health care is a right, not a right to make money on medical fate. It appears you have validated that America has a well-oiled functioning caste system when it comes to care of the human body. If you can pay for it, you get to live. If not, hey, we have a fine selection of gutters for you to roll over and die in. I am the face of the uninsured. I’m a college graduate, an award-winning writer, over 50 and unable to get insurance that I can afford, or that would do me much good. I’ve been priced out, and I’m not even a scumbag. One day, your greedy ideology will become subsumed by people so angry at how profits are made at our expense you will have to find a new belief system. You’re malevolent and vile. I want to be “free” too, that is, free to live without fear that a mole on my arm will bankrupt my family.

]]> By: Gregory S. Isaacs http://healthblog.ncpa.org/how-sick-are-the-uninsured/comment-page-1/#comment-39042 Gregory S. Isaacs Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:46:42 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/how-sick-are-the-uninsured/#comment-39042 Once again, you are exactly correct. "Chronic" conditions are so loosely defined by the insurance companies that they apply to half the nation. This is why people have so much trouble getting coverage. I pay $1,000 a month for terrible coverage - my pre-existing condition? I am 62. That's it. You should send out some "secret shoppers" with some mild and common "chronic conditions" and see the results. It should prove your point ... if you are correct. Once again, you are exactly correct. “Chronic” conditions are so loosely defined by the insurance companies that they apply to half the nation. This is why people have so much trouble getting coverage. I pay $1,000 a month for terrible coverage – my pre-existing condition? I am 62. That’s it. You should send out some “secret shoppers” with some mild and common “chronic conditions” and see the results. It should prove your point … if you are correct.

]]> By: Joe S. http://healthblog.ncpa.org/how-sick-are-the-uninsured/comment-page-1/#comment-39040 Joe S. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:03:12 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/how-sick-are-the-uninsured/#comment-39040 Here is what the news coverage should have said: 1. Almost half the population has a chronic disease, under the authors' loose definition. 2. The incidence of chronic disease is 50% greater among the insured than among the uninsured. Here is what the news coverage should have said:

1. Almost half the population has a chronic disease, under the authors’ loose definition.

2. The incidence of chronic disease is 50% greater among the insured than among the uninsured.

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