I go to Pitt. I don't like UPMC? Tough bananas. Pitt is my "employer" and to go to any other plan would be more than I could ever afford.
I am putting my health where my mouth is, after all--I'm moving to Canada, and I'll be under socialized health care OMG hopefully in late 2010. So I'll be able to speak from personal experience what the difference is like. But in my own experience, lighting a fire under one's congressman is not impossible if it's a campaign where they think it will make them look good. My brother didn't get something he was supposed to get from the army (he's a vet), my mother raised hell with our senator, the senator raised hell, and my brother got what he deserved. I have no reason to think that a National Health Care service would be any different.
I am seriously concerned that if I ever develop arthritis again, as is likely (I had the juvenile form), any States insurer would disqualify my treatment as a preexisting condition. That's not a problem in Canada.
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Date: 2009-10-21 03:51 am (UTC)I go to Pitt. I don't like UPMC? Tough bananas. Pitt is my "employer" and to go to any other plan would be more than I could ever afford.
I am putting my health where my mouth is, after all--I'm moving to Canada, and I'll be under socialized health care OMG hopefully in late 2010. So I'll be able to speak from personal experience what the difference is like. But in my own experience, lighting a fire under one's congressman is not impossible if it's a campaign where they think it will make them look good. My brother didn't get something he was supposed to get from the army (he's a vet), my mother raised hell with our senator, the senator raised hell, and my brother got what he deserved. I have no reason to think that a National Health Care service would be any different.
I am seriously concerned that if I ever develop arthritis again, as is likely (I had the juvenile form), any States insurer would disqualify my treatment as a preexisting condition. That's not a problem in Canada.