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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where do people live?

In DC homeowners hasn’t really gone up much…maybe 5%, but that’s just a $100 nominal increase for the year.

Pissed that health insurance goes up…like 7%.  I don’t get why this country isn’t wildly enthusiastic about socialized medicine (except seniors and veterans who all have it).  Health insurance premiums are effectively a tax and for generally mediocre coverage with lots of copays and deductibles.

Car insurance didn’t go anywhere…actually decreased a tiny bit.

Grocery prices generally the same…admittedly I don’t buy brands and am fine generally buying whatever is on weekly sales.

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Ha, ha, ha! Socialized medicine is not the way to go. It will definitely separate the haves from the have nots. I grew up with a career military father and lived socialized medicine through military hospitals. I almost died at 12 years old with walking pneumonia because no doctor would give me a chest x-ray at Bethesda Naval Hospital, now called Walter Reed.

My family never had a doctor patient relationship with one specific doctor because you get who is working that day when you go in for an appointment or an emergency. In our country, if we have socialized medicine, people will sit in clinics or hospitals for hours on end, seeking the treatment sanctioned by the government. People of means and wealth will pay a doctor to treat them and go on their way. It would be similar to the concierge model of medicine where money talks, and you get good service. Ask our neighbors to the north in Canada how it’s working for them and how many people come to the lower 48 to see doctors because they don’t want to wait weeks or months.

My friends that are business owners who provide healthcare plans for the employees tell me that their health premiums that they supplement for their employees go up 20 to 25% year over a year. Some business owners only cover employees now and no longer cover family members because this expense is too great for their bottom line.[/quote]

I grew up with a career military father and this was not our experience at all. However, everyone talked trash about the military system but once I was in the civilian world--the doctors are terrible and I have to fight for my daughter with medical special needs to be seen. What I wouldn't give to have the military system of my childhood! My spouse also grew up military and servce and he feels exactly the same way--his mother also fought with the doctors at Bethesda when he had meningitis at 4. The civilian doctors would have killed him. I am sure they would have just flat out denied you too. [/quote]

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