[RKDinOKC]

It's like when the company I worked for went from self insured to using a company like blue crotch blue shiet. At that time they were paying 100% medical. Then they showed how much the company was saving on medical and how great it was. But they never showed you could multiply the number of employees by the premiums the employees were now paying and it was the exact same amount.

Believe you me, we are paying for the management of that "pre-tax" money with both health care costs and taxes or most likely just adding to national freaking debt.

The insurance and health care industry feed off each other. Health care charges more because insurance helps pay and insurance charges more to cover health care. Do you think companies and doctors invest in hospitals and medical practices out of the good of their hearts for humanity sake? It's a money making business. Insurance and health care are the only things that cost MORE per hour worked now than in the 50's.

I also HATE seeing drug ads on TV. It costs a lot of money to advertise and that just makes drugs more expensive. And I should never have to ask my doctor if I need a medication especially if an advertisement tells me to. To me that would mean I have a really really bad doctor. And when they say if you need help paying for a drug just call them, that just means they are charging way too much because insurance will pay for it.

Every year I contact the manufacturers of the medications I take and ask for a discount. I do it because they give me a pretty significant discount that runs out in a year. It is not actually saving me any money because my insurance pays 100% of my meds after I reach my deductible, but it is saving my insurance company money. I think having to do that is stupid too.

And not to go all parf but Hilary Clinton started all this PPO, HMO crap increasing the cost overhead of medical care by 300% when Bill was President.

OKAY, SORRY, IM DONE.

Off to play with the new smoker.