Personal medical savings accounts

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Of course, society must take care of those who fall through the cracks-

the young, the old , the infirm. I would prefer to see the welfare

agencies, in the beginning of this program, supply each person in

this category with his own medical

savings account allotment to put into his own account, allowing the

PATIENT to make his own choices.

In the present system, the medically insured receive less medical care

than those on welfare and NO ONE but government

bureaucrats or impersonal insurance company clerks make the rules.

Personal medical savings accounts are about CHOICE, competition, freedom,

quality of care and restraint of medical costs-empowering the PATIENT.

Corrupt doctors, insurance companies (which have been skimming

the cream of the medical dollar) and the bureaucrats (who want to run

everybody else's lives) will be the losers.

PATIENTS will be the winners. This is what all participants on this AP

list

have been advocating- patient choice, patient healing and that is what I

wish

for each and every one of you for the coming millennium.

Blessings,

Glenda

RA 12/96 , AP 6-99 , Minocin 100 mg 2X day

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From: " Liz G. " <pioneer@...>

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Subject: Re: rheumatic Personal medical savings accounts

Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 09:28:48 -0800

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From: " Liz G. " <pioneer@...>

> the plan actually has some merits dispite what some people think. this

is

> money that you are having to shell out for your medical expenses

anyway,

That assumes that you are able to work steadily, and have money to

shell

out! I have been ill a lot since early childhood...often went without

insurance in my adult years because I lost jobs due to illness, and the

insurance that went with them, and did not always qualify for government

disability and insurance either, because I could not get an accurate

diagnosis, and was too chronically fatigued to fight for it.

Try getting diagnosed when you have to go to free or low cost clinics

and

see different doctors every time! I couldn't get a diagnosis even when I

was

still living at home, and my father's job had excellent insurance. Once

I

was sick enough to be hospitalized, they went through 3 or 4 diagnoses,

before just eventually throwing antibiotics at me, and I got better

enough

to go back to school. OTOH, If I had gotten that diagnosis sooner, maybe

none of the companies I worked for would never have hired me at all, due

to

insurance issues, so I may not have been able to work even during my

remission times.

I think people who had this hit them later in life forget what it is

like

for the long-term chronically ill. Lord help me and my children if we had

to

qualify for benefits based on a program I paid into during my spotty work

career.

I cannot believe how much better I have been able to work and

concentrate

since I started to feel the effects of the antibiotics on the brain fog

and

fatigue, and pain. How on earth did I ever manage to work at all, or get

a

college degree? Liz G

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