07-24-2009, 10:57 AM
I've been saying streamline Medicaid for ages. It could be done. Turn it over to a businessman and let him take it over without the whiny petty bleeding heart bullshit from the left.
Newt Gingrich was on the TV today telling how it can be done and how he's got a plan that can work, cost nothing in new taxes and how the govt now is paying for things they are blatantly getting ripped off of in the Medicaid system for like two pizza parlors getting funded for being AIDS transfusion stations!
I also don't like the idea of my personal medical information in some govt database so anyone can look at my personal info and issues that should be private between me and my doctor only.
But then again, I can choose the red pill over the blue pill and make it all magically work!
I got news for you all - generic drugs are NOT in any way, shape or form the SAME as their brand name counterparts. I have had plenty of bad reactions to generic drugs that I do not get from the brand name. It's the fillers they use to make the pill that can cause problems. I've gone plenty without medicine I need because the side effects of the generic far outweigh the "benefit" of the drug.
There are plenty of drug plans with private insurance that will NOT cover brand name drugs and force you into using generics.
BROTHER - you know you CAN apply for an extension of your COBRA.
Newt Gingrich was on the TV today telling how it can be done and how he's got a plan that can work, cost nothing in new taxes and how the govt now is paying for things they are blatantly getting ripped off of in the Medicaid system for like two pizza parlors getting funded for being AIDS transfusion stations!
I also don't like the idea of my personal medical information in some govt database so anyone can look at my personal info and issues that should be private between me and my doctor only.
But then again, I can choose the red pill over the blue pill and make it all magically work!
I got news for you all - generic drugs are NOT in any way, shape or form the SAME as their brand name counterparts. I have had plenty of bad reactions to generic drugs that I do not get from the brand name. It's the fillers they use to make the pill that can cause problems. I've gone plenty without medicine I need because the side effects of the generic far outweigh the "benefit" of the drug.
There are plenty of drug plans with private insurance that will NOT cover brand name drugs and force you into using generics.
BROTHER - you know you CAN apply for an extension of your COBRA.