Comments on: When Your Local Pharmacist Is In Mexico

Poor And Uninsured Crossing Border For Affordable Health Care; How Would Candidates' Plans Help?

[missingamerica]

"Under Clinton''s plan, a person like Perez who has virtually no income would receive government-subsidized health insurance"

Ya know those private health insurance companies that drop people who get sick? The ones that delay and delay and delay authorizing procedures until ya die and it isn''t necessary anymore?

Clinton is their goose that lays the golden egg - she intends to reward them for their cruelty by forcing every single American to send them money.

[andrew_693]

maybe..... if bring the 100, 000 morons that are in iraq looking for easter eggs and the tooth fairy and spending trillions of dollars and use this money to help people maybe...just maybe the problem could be solved. But off course, we wouldn''t want big government interfering with the pharmaceutical interests which is always in favor of the patient this is why ........: "Her doctor of four years will no longer see her.

%u201CSuddenly, you lose your job, your health card and then they don%u2019t even know you,%u201D she says tearfully."




Whatever happen to real doctors and the hypocratic oath, most american doctors are a joke who can''t even perform their duties right.

[drinuk]

Haven''t heard any of these politicians admitting that health problems, cost and corruption is caused by the incestuous relationship between the medical profession, politicians and the Pharmaceuticals. They have not told us how many bucks these crooks are contributing to their campaigns and how indepted they will be if they achieve office.

Health care in America Sucks, it is operated by the Big Pharma Mafia and orchestrated by the FDA which they own, lock, stock and barrel. Obama, Clinton and McCain are in their pockets, as are most of Washington.

This should have been forensically investigated during this election run up but how can it be when Big Pharma have the media in their pockets too.

The real terrorists threatening America are Big Pharma, the daily genocide goes on and on. Stop taling their pills, YOU really don''t need them, go for the natural alternative.

[johngoodnews]

Since neither Clinton nor Obama will nationalize oil and health care or embargo trade with China and penalize US branded companies for offshoring jobs and manufacturing, I really don''t see why I shouldn''t vote for McCain.

[susanli1985]

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[mcapek]

Oh yes, the wonderful quality of medical care in Mexico, and almost free also.

Somebody needs to cap the prices of health care instead of trying to figure out how to pay for the insurance. The rest of the world has done it but not here. Big Pharma owns our politicians.

[likeitis5050]

HMOs are ruining health care. Doctors can''t doctor as they choose because HMOs are there telling what they can and can''t do. HMOs have gotten to the point that the buck is more important than health care. When HMOs are taken out of the equation, health care will be available to all. Of course doctors may have to relearn how to do their jobs without hefty kick backs they currently receive from HMOs and the pharmacy industry. Something has got to give and it needs to be HMOs.

[cbsblogger]

Obama or Clinton....it can''t be any worse than what GW Bush has done to this country in the name of profits for his business cronies.

[rudy654-2009]

Maybe you should go to his website and read a bit. Might help clear things up. Posted by kansas1946 at 11:56 PM

Oh, you can''t tell me either. No surprise there! If his supporters can''t tell you what his plan is, I seriously doubt that I want to wade through the rhetoric on his website.

[kansas1946]

Obama has sense enough to know that this is a gradual process, and you attack the worst of the problem first, and see how that goes. Posted by kansas1946 at 07:52 PM

Obama has sense enough to know that this is a gradual process, and you attack the worst of the problem first, and see how that goes. Posted by kansas1946 at 07:52 PM

Really? Wow. What exactly has he said on the subject?




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Posted by rudy654 at 08:34 PM : Mar 03, 2008
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Maybe you should go to his website and read a bit. Might help clear things up.

[kansas1946]

Anyone stop to think about why health care is cheaper in Mexico? It''''s because most people there have NO INSURANCE. If we want chaper health care we should get rid of health insurance, that is where all the costs go. Not to mention all the medical providers here use insurance as a big "cash cow" to charge the max for everything. If there is no insurance, health care providers just can''''t charge people whatever they feel like, they might actually have to worry about competition for a change.


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Posted by Me9951 at 09:14 PM : Mar 03, 2008
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I know a lot of people probably laughed at your idea Me, but you are dead right. When large numbers of Americans started getting health insurance through their employers in the fifties and sixties, the medical providers saw the $$. They could pretty much charge what they wanted and the patient didn''t complain because it wasn''t coming out of their pocket. So up and up it went until the insurance companies started catching up with their prices. Now it is an unfixable mess.
By the way, veternarians are pushing their pets owners to get health insurance for the pets. DON''T DO IT. Pretty soon it will cost as much to get Fido fixed as it does you.

[red1530]

I think the reason it is cheaper in Mexico is because the Dollar is stronger the the Peso.

[javadavid]

Healthcare in Mexico is affordable to all in Mexico because it is centered on patient''s needs instead of those of shareholders. Mexican medical/dental students are required to provide pro-bono or at-cost services. That CAT scan in Mexico would likely not cost much more than the $25 charged for the X-ray. Most dental work is done for the cost of materials. What drives up cost and drives down care in the U.S. is the profit-driven, merger-crazed, corporate nature of medical and insurance institutions in this country.

[jumkey]

Paying $75 less for a prescription in Mexico is "degrading"? ***?

No wonder our politicians and corporate masters laugh at us and treat us like idiots.

[swtgapch]

I went with a friend a couple of years ago to Mexico to get some dental surgery and after the plane fare, hotel, food, and medicine, it was about $15,000 cheaper than if she had gotten the surgery here. The work was great, she has had no complications or anything.

[xraytwonine]

life is great!

[galaxiana]

cbscrash07 says: "Its a good thing she lives here in the US we will cure diabetes once and for all in a couple of years. This is what you are paying for."

This is a load of crock! We are never going to see a cure for diabetes or cancer in the USA because the current system is making too much money TREATING diseases. These drug companies have zero incentive to CURE diseases because then you won''t need their drugs anymore! Instead, they invent treatments that keep people from suffering, but definitely don''t cure the disease.

America''s health system is fubar''d from the very ground up. The drug companies, the insurance companies, all of it is a mess.

[joyous88]

it is mexico, thanks to the greed driven republiCons

[me9951]

Anyone stop to think about why health care is cheaper in Mexico? It''s because most people there have NO INSURANCE. If we want chaper health care we should get rid of health insurance, that is where all the costs go. Not to mention all the medical providers here use insurance as a big "cash cow" to charge the max for everything. If there is no insurance, health care providers just can''t charge people whatever they feel like, they might actually have to worry about competition for a change.