Re: Swedish Healthcare System

Gisele wrote:
In Michael Moore's Sicko, there is a working couple who had insurance
who ended up living in their daughter's basement because of health costs
not covered by insurance that forced them to sell their house. I guess
they would have been better off not having jobs! Can't tell you
anything about the welfare system in Sweden.


I'll check on the systems in Sweden. Yesterday I tallied the hit I took for medical bills in 2007. $2500 deductible that I'll be paying $100/month until into 2009 to pay for. (Now in 2008 which means it's a new $2500!) Out of network physician fees $3025. I can't really afford another $100 in my budget so I have to figure out how to get those paid. The deductible fees for 2007 are owed to 2 different hospitals, one that keeps calling and insisting I sell my house - mostly because I'm still working on the >$5k from 2005 when I had no insurance and was hospitalized for 24 hours. The other, insists I pay no less than $100/month. Trying to rebuild my credit back to the perfect status it was in in 2001 so I feel like I'm hostage to the demands. If I can't figure out how to pay the extra $3k, it'll go on my credit report in short order. And the doc I saw on Monday wants me to go to Jefferson Neurology. So then I'm torn between do I keep going to these docs who are not giving me answers or do I just wait until I feel really like poop and then go and just treat that? Then there's the whole dog chasing his tail.... I need to work a 2nd job to pay the medical bills, working the 2nd job wears me down so much that I can't work the 2nd job and end up taking off for the main job too, and then the stress of that.... E-I-E-I-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

As for your proposal for dividing up property tax money to provide
equal education for all, I'm all for it, though of course the richer
districts would fight tooth and nail to prevent anything like that from
happening.

I'd love to see the property taxes changed.... I dont get why renters dont have to pay school taxes. IMO, if you have a kid, you should be paying school taxes. And if you're over 55 without school age children, you should not.


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