Obamacare for OTR owner ops

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by double yellow, Sep 29, 2015.

  1. whoopNride

    whoopNride Road Train Member

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    I don't have it, but I have looked into it. The plans in my state exchange (Miss) won't pay for urgent care clinics, however they will pay for emergency room visits in any state.
     
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  3. DUNE-T

    DUNE-T Road Train Member

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    And thats why our healthcare system is messed up.
    " I am healthy, nothing is gonna happen to me!". Bam, fell on the road, hit your head, brought to hospital, 11 days later $170000 bill.
    "Oops, sorry, I dont have insurance, gonna go file bankruptcy now"
     
  4. rollin coal

    rollin coal Road Train Member

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    The fact that he doesn't have health insurance isn't what's messed up. The fact that the consumer cannot vote with their dollars in a free market and they can charge $170,000 or $250,000 or whatever they please is what's messed up. Go doctor shopping to have a procedure done at some point in the future paying out of your own pocket and see what a world of difference it is. They will actually compete for your dollars. What a novel idea....
     
  5. DUNE-T

    DUNE-T Road Train Member

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    Umm, lets say they inflated the cost and you actually only have to pay $60k instead of 170k. That will also send people with no insurance to bankruptsy
     
  6. rollin coal

    rollin coal Road Train Member

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    Let's just say that even $60,000 is inflated. 50 years ago people didn't need health insurance for such a short stay in the hospital. The only thing that has really changed in that time is a massive bureaucracy has grown up creating an industry around the Healthcare industry its self.
     
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  7. AndrewH

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    I paid the penalty, $200 together for my wife and I...

    Doesn't seem like much of a free country if I cant decide without a penalty wether or not I should be without healthcare.

    They want to keep regulating mandatory healthcare but keep letting the bio-tech companies and other food industry sectors run rampant causing a semi to highly toxic food supply WHICH IS WHERE you get your health problems in the first place. Seems like a big CON to me.

    It's allready been proven by independent researchers that the pesticides (which we haul in/on our trailer and are PLACARD' hazmats) are incramentaly piling up in our bodies causing the diabetes, the liver issues, the autism, the cancers, all that crap; comes from eating un-natural foods (genetically "enhanced") laced with hazmat chemicals, watered by Tap water laced with all other sorts of inorganic materials which the body can't digest.

    Doctors are good for broken bones and bullet wounds, that's about it. 99% or everything is self inflicted due to ignorance or sheer unwillingness to provide the body with an alkaline internal enviornment. (Combined with whole food nutrition/ mineral intake of course) (and no, pills are not the same, unless the vitamin source is from a whole food source, not synthesized crap)

    We wouldn't put $1 a gallon diesel in our good trucks if we knew it was laced with coolant now would we! The price looks cheap but it will wreck the whole investment potentially; But this is what we (the majority) do with our bodies and expect some type of miracle or blame it on old age.
     
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  8. HalpinUout

    HalpinUout Road Train Member

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    Better now... Was in a motorcycle accident and needed surgery on one of my legs...

    Hopefully will be released to go back to work soon...

    Thanks for asking
     
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  9. Prom Night Dumpster Baby

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    Health Care is a made up right. So is the right to not be offended. And to top it off the rights that are inherent are infringed upon severely.

    Go figure.
     
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  10. truckon

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    You can also just set up a payment plan with the hospital and pay a few bucks a month. No need to file bankruptcy.
     
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  11. DUNE-T

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    Lol might as well get insurance and have payments lower than mortgage payments. Seriously,you never know what can happen, my friend collapsed playing soccer and after 3 days in coma and couple surgeries his bill was over 250k, good thing he had insurance
     
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