Thursday, September 24, 2009

Issue with Comments - Hopefully Resolved

Hey Tonya, I noticed that there was no way to respond to your posting with a comment.  I went into the system and made some changes, and it looks like new posts may allow that, but something must have been temporarily reset to prevent it. 
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3 comments:

  1. TonyaSeptember 24, 2009 at 7:25 PM

    I noticed that too. Thought it was me. Looks like it is resolved now?

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  2. Michael NewtonSeptember 24, 2009 at 9:03 PM

    It looks that way. Hopefully this won't remain an issue for posts that you initiate. I hope we won't have to wait long to find out.

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  3. AndrasOctober 5, 2009 at 7:13 AM

    Hi,
    Just to add to the health care debate here. At a certain level for profit health insurance does not seem to work. Why? All insurance companies try to reduce risk. As a result they screen out high risk applicants (e.g. people with pre-existing conditions etc.), or deny/cancel existing coverage to "expensive" individuals. With that they create a kind of "pollution", since the ill now either go bankrupt or burden hospitals and/or government. In either case society pays. Companies should not be allowed to pollute.
    Here in Germany, we have a mixture of public and private insurers. Everybody is required to have health insurance. There is a government mandated minimum coverage. Nobody can be denied this minimum insurance coverage. There are competing public and private plans. They compete on additional services (private insurers make the profit on these supplemental plans). Not everything is covered (e.g. on two occasions at the doctor's office they told me that the particular test is not covered, and so I had a choice whether I wanted it or not. They could even tell me how much it costs ahead of time. I never had that in the US). No child (under 18) can have doctor recommended procedures denied. They do not even have the quarterly 10 Euro copay that adults have.
    Interesting read could be T.R. Reid's new book, where he goes with the same shoulder problem to a US, French, German, UK, Canadian, Indian and Japanese doctor.
    Andras

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