Massive spike in long-term care costs hits Minnesota seniors
March 19, 2012 at 2:35 am in Grand Forks Herald
The unforeseen premium increases have caused a rash of calls to state regulators and advocates from worried or irate older Minnesotans.
But the effect could go much further. It could dampen a new three-year effort by state agencies to convince more people to finance their own long-term care in old age. Continue Reading
See how the two articles work with each other…..Eat more red meat when you’re younger and you wont have to worry about getting old enough to have to deal with all those raised premimums….
On the other hand…….Instead of listening to the right wing hype….This is part of the reason we desperatly need health care reform……I know…Once you put Obama’s name in front of it it sounds very scary to some of you…But forget all that and take in the reality of allthe medical gouging going on from the insurance side to the health care side. They have us caught up in a dance that goes round and round until the music stops and we find ourselve sitting on a mountain of bills…..health care reform is good for us all…
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Why is our Health Care For-Profit in the first place? Why do we allow multi-billion dollar insurance companies, with their multi-million dollar, plus bonuses, CEO’s, and their private jets, to profit from our health problems? How do fancy corporate offices contribute to your health care? They quite often say they do not have the money to reimburse you for you claim, but they sure seem have plenty of money to buy the Congress Critters they need to keep their opulent gravy train going. Never mind bribery is not supposed to be legal in this country.
How do faceless corporate bean counters have the right to over-rule Medical doctors, to decide whether you should receive treatment that may well determine whether you live or die or maybe just become disabled, if you are lucky?
This country has good health care. The problem is the health insurance companies deciding who will and will not get doctor mandated treatment, no mater the risk to the patients life’s.
When you buy insurance, you are buying a contract. If such and such happens, they will pay X-amount. They are happy to take your money. They all too often do not uphold their end of the contract by paying for the services they said they would in the contract.
The answer, for both cost and coverage is, as most of the rest of the world is currently doing, is Single Payer, Universal Health Care. Are we not persons also. After all, we are paying for it all.
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