What if I have enough money to pay for any medical expenses so I don’t need health insurance, don’t work because I’m retired, and therefore don’t pay an income tax. The way its shaping up I would be charged a tax penalty for not having health care and be a criminal for not paying it. I think it’s against my rights to have to pay for health insurance simply to subsidize another persons health care. Am I living in a free country or the socialist states of America? What do you think?

i don’t feel a great connection with my OB, and i’ve now heard that this is common with her patients. i’ve also heard that she will push for interventions when not necessary. also, she will only deliver in a certain hospital–the one that tends to be overcrowded & requires women to share rooms while birthing (awkward!!)
i want a nice peaceful, private (as possible) birth, and i’ve been looking into a birthing center that i’ve heard GREAT things about from many people in the birthing community (it’s in the parking lot of a hospital and their rates of interventions & complications are VERY low, as is their infant & maternal mortality rate–very very very low almost nil). it seems to offer everything i want…. (they are the only place in my city which offers water birth as an option as well!)
but i’m worried about switching over my care in the middle of my pregnancy–i’m 20 weeks.
what do you think, should i go ahead & switch?

I want to get a breast reduction. I am 38 DD, 5′7″ inches, 150. I have back problems and my bra straps cut into me. How do I go about getting a doc to say its medically necessary and getting it covered by insurance. How do I go about this? If anyone has done it, what did you do to get it covered?

Or do you think that health insurance should be for catastrophic risks?
Why doesn’t the government provide incentives for more walk in basic medical care services for which people can pay themselves and don’t need to wait for a doctor’s appointment when they need help with little problems like the flu, minor accidents, etc.? Why do simple medical services like that need to be covered by insurance?

My husband and I were treated horribly by a certain fertility doctor because we are hispanics.He made all kinds of derrogatory comments and even asumed we were on welfare and said that it can help feed the baby but will not pay for my treatment. We were going to pay in full and up front because we both work very hard and can afford it.I tried Better Bussiness but they said it was a human resource case, is there a medical association I can complain to? This was very humilliating and Id hate for someone else to be treated this way, being diagnosed with infertility is very stressful and painful enough as it is for you to go to the one person that can help you and be treated like crap.I apprecciate everyones help, thank you.

We have just moved from uk to sydney and don’t know what medical to get. we have no medical problems. So need basic cover for doctor, dentist etc.
thanks

Rather than use money, the government should adopt programs and policies that help reduce the demand for health care. They should promote a healthy lifestyle of exercise and nutrition vice trying to fix medical problems caused by smoking, laziness, and excess.

Do the British citizens like their “free” socilized health services, or do the affluent use private services? Are doctors in the NHS as affluent as doctors in the U.S. ? If not how does the NHS keep staff?

aside from the information provided by the claims filed on a person’s insurance.
Do they solicit information at random or do some sort of data mining to find about about people?

There is not. A Health Care Crisis makes it sound as if we dont have enough hospitals/clinics for people to go to. That we have people dropping dead in the streets left and right because we dont have enough doctors or our doctors are not well equipped or trained. The problem is a insurance crisis and the cost of medical care-not health care crisis.
I have heard people from outside of the states with the misconception that if you are in America and you get hit while crossing a street-if you have no medical insurance they leave you laying there to die. Thats not true-regardless if you can pay or not non-profit hospitals MUST treat you. They can not turn you away during a medical emergency. It is the law.
Unlike in Japan where they have “Universal Health Care”. This man gets in a car wreck-is turned away by 14 different hospitals and ends up dying in a ambulance because none would take him.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/04…