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Politickles » Blog Archive » We Don’t Need No Stinking Insurance — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:40:50 +0000

[...] We Don’t Need No Stinking Insurance January 13, 2010, 6:40 pm If mandatory health insurance goes through, it will turn me into a criminal. I don’t have health insurance. I don’t want it. And I will refuse to buy it even though I can afford it. Before they lead me to the cells, perhaps the prisoner may be allowed to say a few words in his defense. – James Payne, The Freeman [...]

By: Lilie

Lilie — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:26:19 +0000

I found out I had a very large tumor in my liver. I was being coerced into surgery by friends, family, and the doctors. Upon a second visit a year later, my doctor said this, “It could recede.” Once I heard that, I thanked the doctor and went on my way. Another thing, as soon as I went into the doctors office, a nurse took me into another room with the intention of taking my blood and checking my blood pressure, amongst other things. I was not sick, I was there to consult with the doctor who had knowledge of the tests that located this tumor. I declined. She was shocked that I did so. If you look hard enough, you will find something. Many people die with these things that never affect them, and die at a very late age. But these tests that look for things can then cause early deaths if treated. The doctor I saw was one of the best and performed more surgeries than most doctors. He was very wealthy indeed. But I also heard second hand that a nurse that worked for him said he performed many unneeded surgeries as well so I was skeptical. Plus, I was in my late 20′s and did not want a scar on my perfect six-pack, and the risk of opening up my vital organs to all possible infections, mistakes, etc. All in all, I have not had pain since and have started practicing a certain yoga that teaches how to heal yourself. It teaches you how to breath properly as to oxygenate your cells to rid illness and prevent any illness from ever occurring. It also helps balance your body, energy, and emotions so that you may live a more fulfilling life. It also incorporates goal achievement and fulfillment of any other wants and needs you may have. If you keep an open mind and do your research, there are many ways to find the proper treatment that is affordable and will save your life. Maybe what we need is a network of doctors that are there to fulfill their Hippocratic Oath instead of just trying to make a buck. That type of doctor will save your life and will be rewarded accordingly.

By: Waldo Pepper

Waldo Pepper — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:12:09 +0000

So what happens when you brave individualists have a serious health problem? I know some of you have said that you have substantial assets, but unless you are very wealthy indeed, you can use up a substantial amount of money in a relatively short time. Are you counting your home among your assets? If so are you willing to sell it, or will you be another bankruptcy statistic.

Others have said they are young and healthy. Even the young and healthy have accidents. Who will pick up the costs if you were to have a head injury which will require intensive care for the rest of your life?

Yet another posted that prayer has kept them healthy. Will the church or maybe even the lord pick up the costs of a catastrophic health problem?

In all the above cases, if stricken by a serious health problem, it is very likely that you will soon outstrip your ability to pay the costs yourself. When that happens, those costs fall on the rest of society, weather through bankruptcy, or through using the medicaid program, or just reneging on the debt.

The United States is the only industrialized country on the earth that does not have universal health insurance, we spend twice as much per person for health care, while receiving care that is average at best.

So all you brave individualists, I hope you feel real good about your rugged individualism and I hope you never get sick enough to have to rely on my (and others) help to pay for your short sightedness.

By: joni

joni — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:07:09 +0000

Thanks,
Great article. Well said. We haven’t had health insurance for about 7 years and like you, we have made the choice to take responsibliity for our health care and to pay for it when necessary.
Joni

By: Doc

Doc — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:40:26 +0000

Bravo! Great article.

By: D. Saul Weiner

D. Saul Weiner — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:31:51 +0000

James,

I am very sympathetic to your position, though I would worry about not having insurance in case I got into a car wreck, or the like. I have little use for most of the expensive offerings of the MD / Big Pharma complex.

Wouldn’t it be nice, too, if we could buy an affordable policy from an insurer which supported natural treatments and which did not need to cover approaches which are outrageously expensive and dangerous?

By: Tiana

Tiana — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:08:05 +0000

Thank-you so much for this healthy dose of common sense!

We have insurance now, but didn’t for a long time. Because we use alternative therapies, don’t vaccinate, and have our babies at home with a midwife, most of our healthcare expenses aren’t covered by the typical insurance plan. That doesn’t bother us, though, because our health care costs are minimal.

I believe that we’d be better off as a country if people stopped assuming an insurance company (or the government) will pay for them to see a doctor for every little sniffle, and if we started looking at insurance as something to be used in case of an emergency–you break your arm, need an appendectomy, etc. Then, maybe we’d start taking better care of ourselves–eating right, exercising, and using homeopathic remedies and alternative therapies such as chiropractic care to prevent illness.

Brilliant Article!

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:39:30 +0000

Great article. I haven’t had so-called health insurance for most of my 64 years, and I am glad of it. I have learned to take care of my health without the help of our corrupted medical system. There is a doctor that I have seen recently to get his advise, but he doesn’t take insurance.

My reasoning is a little different. I just don’t trust the system. I recently learned a new word, iatrogenic. I means caused by a physician’s treatment. About 225,000 people die per year due to iatrogenic causes. I recall back in the early 1970′s there was a nurses strike and the death rate dropped almost 20%.

No thanks. I’ll stick to the alternatives that the FDA and the AMA say don’t work. They have worked for me for many years.