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I can’t believe the cost of seeing the doctor these days. First you pay the insurance $100-$300 a month and the doctors office still charges you $100-$200 just for the visit. If you have to see someone who just comes to use the facility you have to pay them as well. This can also ring up the charges to another $300 or more! If you figure out how much you spend in health-care for a year you’ll be astounded how much it really costs you. First add, lets say, $300 a month. O.k. now if math is right it would total $3,600 a year! O.K. now add in a doctor visit at $200, lets say you have a family of 4, everyone sees the doctor 3 times in the year. That’s pretty moderate but lets say for arguments sake. That’s another $2,400! Lets say one of your children breaks a leg or something and they need an x-ray done. That’s another $200 to the clinic and another facility to read them if they don’t do it on site.

Now just for the basics for a year you just spent $6,200 for a necessity that is not getting any easier to pay for. Plus if you can’t pay right away they will add finance charges or late fees to it. This could bring the total cost for health-care for the year to over $8,000! It’s no wonder people are dying and nothing can be done. Now figure in the amount of people in the state that have insurance. If they are all paying the same for it would spend, say 100,000 people, 8 million year for the insurance. Now remember not everyone is married or has children. Lets say only 40,000 are not married,  that leaves 60,000 married with children. The married with children would spend an average 2.16 billion just for insurance a year. Lets say single health insurance costs $200 a month $2400 a year. That’s 96 million a year! That’s a TON of Money! Now remember these numbers are estimates, may not be exact.

In the great state where I live the House of Representatives just finished up their meeting. They decided to give themselves a raise, because they do not make enough already, and they also get FREE HEALTHCARE!!!!! They complain that the smokers in my state and across the country are responsible for the cost of health-care being so high because they get sick more often and they get sicker. I am a smoker and I have only been to the doctor One time this winter for a flu like symptom. Now if you ask me I don’t think that I am making much difference in the cost of others insurance rates. The local Blue Cross Blue Shield is wanting another rate hike for my state. The employees there just went on a nice little trip to the Caribean this last winter. The head of the office who set it up was fired for making bad decisions about this. Now they want to charge members more for the services. The employees at Blue Cross already get a hefty paycheck for doing what they do one time, all they do is sign people up for the insurance. They get a paycheck that would make the rest of us feel pretty awful since we bust our butts to make a living and end up barely paying the bills.

Much like the Presidents of Ford and GM who get way to much money and are not willing to say o.k. our employees, the bread and butter of the company, deserve to keep their jobs because I can take a pay cut to help keep costs down the rest of us have to pay for it.

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