7 thoughts on “Can you equate good health with health insurance?”

1. They mostly died young.

2. You went to the doctor and paid. You know that this is far gone. Hardly anyone can afford to pay for an ER visit or an catastrophic illness. America made it this way and it wil not change.

3. We didn’t live long, and a lot of people simply died. Those are the only results you get. There was a free clinic drive today in Harford Ct, and amongst those people that went was a lady that used to make 100,000 a year, and since she got laid off, she didn’t have insurance. She had a lump on her neck that had formed, and upon inspection it was life threatening, and she was rushed to the doctor. If she would of had regular visits it could have been caught in time before it got that bad.

4. To prevent being reported for a Yahoo terms violation here is my answer to your question as I understand it, no

5. It certainly gives you a better change
   people died

6. Generally, I’d say yes. However, like everything else there are exceptions. I know a career city worker that has the best medical and dental insurance anywhere. He can go to a doctor or dentist and pay $0. But when he smiles, you want to cringe. I just don’t get it. Is he afraid of the dentist? I assume if he’s neglecting his teeth, he might be doing the same medically.

7. medicine was not an arm and leg, it was the same price as in Canada and Mexico. People went to the doctors and bartered or paid. There was much more charity than now as it is being used up by others. i would also say back then we didn’t have all this stuff coming in from other countries that cause medical problems. I mean how long has the kids toys had poison on them that we know. No telling what they are missing. hope they have a Geiger counter.

   OH yea back in the ‘good ole days” not as much processed food, people ate pretty good stuff without all the additives and probably worked and exercised more. So you are right seems there was less stress. In the old days only the rich kids and mechanics had cars, now they all have a car, which the parent went into debt to get for them.

   People ate better food with less pollutants. I mean look at the oyster beds in new Orleans many are quarantined for a year or two. No telling what this food has in it to make it stay fresher for longer. Although it really reassures me that the FDA says whatever the stuff is is ok.

   I read this once that after WW2 they (the big shots) decided tha the women could work and so made prices go up so there would have to be two incomes per house to survive. Back in those days people had to work to survive as the government programs hadn’t gotten like they are now.

   Remember the TV dinners. You were in high cotton when you sat down with a TV table(metal) and took the aluminum foil off the deal and saw a chicken leg and thigh, with the giant green peas and square cut carrots.

   Look at all the vending machines today and all that processed stuff. I never remembered seeing so many folks being so overweight.

   Ralph Nader said 100,000 were killed in hospitals, but just googled a report for 2004 which stated 198,000 due to “mistakes”. i also think these pills, while helping can mess people up. Like blood pressure medicine. they can keep giving it to someone and actually drive the pressure up as I know cases where the people go in and then have there weight taken and then bp and they justed moved around and so it would be high. In those cases some of the people I now were as high as 10 mg cr (timed released) and we backed it off and now they just take a 2.5 mg once aday. For some reason the extra would make it go up. So that’s like 10 mg round the clock verses 2.5 once a day. But it happens and many of the doctors and nurses should sit up and take notice.

   Stay warm and dry.