Dean, Do you have a fund for an emergency? I imagine a car wreck could possibly happen even to your family? David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, California ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "Dean May" <deanmay at pianorebuilders.com> To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org> Received: 4/14/2006 5:52:09 AM Subject: RE: Health Insurance for RPT's? >Mark wrote: >>There are well over 40 Million people in the U.S. who have no health >>coverage. What do they do when they get sick? Do you think they just >>suffer alone until they either get better without help or die? No, they >>go to the emergency room, the #1 most expensive form of health care. Who >>do you think pays for that? (We do.) And wouldn't it have been better if >>they could have had their problem treated in a more appropriate, timely >>and cost effective manner? The cost of one ER visit would cover several >>problems handled at the right level, i.e. early when it's still a small >>problem. >Well, Mark, I am one of the 40 million. I haven't had "heath insurance" (it >actually insures poor health for all practical purposes) for 20 years and >I'm not complaining. In fact, losing health insurance has been perhaps the >greatest blessing my family has ever experienced. It forced us to get >serious about our health and our relationship to God. We made major diet >modifications and instituted a family policy that we would not go to a >doctor without first having the elders of the church anoint with oil and >pray. I could tell you scores of stories that you would flat not believe, >but my children first hand witnessed God answering those prayers. Rare is >the time when we have had to use a doctor. Several of my children have never >ever had an antibiotic or vaccination. And I have 11 children. >20 years with no insurance and 8 of my children were born during that >period. That was 8 live births and 2 miscarriages with no hospitalizations >and only a handful of doctor visits. Also during that 20 year period we had >2 trips to the emergency room. Yet I dare say we have paid the "health care" >system (aka, money sucking vortex) far less during those 20 years than we >would have had we been plugged into the system. >And that, quite honestly, is what is wrong with most of your points, Mark. >You presume being plugged into the system and the only options you present >are those the system allows. But the last 20 year history of my family is >living proof that there is another system, one that I have only outlined >here in very scant terms. It is a far better alternative, one that really >does insure health as best as it can be insured. >Now if you want the government to "fix" the system, may I suggest you >remember how well they fixed Katrina. >Dean >Dean May cell 812.239.3359 >PianoRebuilders.com 812.235.5272 >Terre Haute IN 47802
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