Comments on: Medical Vacations http://thesaturdaysalon.com/topic-questions/medical-vacations/ Fri, 10 May 2013 13:20:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: admin http://thesaturdaysalon.com/topic-questions/medical-vacations/#comment-570 admin Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:58:08 +0000 http://thesaturdaysalon.com/?p=1062#comment-570 Hello Nuliken, and welcome to the Saturday Salon. I agree there is no free lunch when it comes to health care. First, I am assuming that the aunt you are talking about is a fictitious person used to clarify your example. I would like to understand your thoughts better. From what I am reading, it sounds like you are saying the neice or nephew should be caring for their aunt themselves instead of putting them in a nursing home, expecting the insurance companies to pay for her care, then benefiting financially when she dies eventually. I don’t think anyone benefits from the insurance company when their aunt dies, but from whatever inheritance she leaves them, if any. I do not understand the part where you are talking about a “few year period of non-payment”. You’ll have to help me out there.

My basic thoughts on health care is that the government should provide good quality health care for all citizens, paid for by taxes. We do not have a public option currently. Even with the new Affordable Care Act, insurance companies are still profiting the most. Health Care and Education should be our national priorities, vs jails and military spending, except for national defense.

If we had excellent health care and education, focusing on prevention – building healthy, strong people, families and communities, we would prevent many of the health and community problems we face today. A large proportion of our health care costs currently go towards trying to correct health problems that could have been prevented through life-style corrections and preventive care.

I would like to hear more of your thoughts on families caring for elderly or ill family members. It sounds like you might have personal experience with this?

]]> By: Nuiiken http://thesaturdaysalon.com/topic-questions/medical-vacations/#comment-551 Nuiiken Fri, 29 Jun 2012 01:01:24 +0000 http://thesaturdaysalon.com/?p=1062#comment-551 Obviously you are looking for a free lunch, which you are not going to get. Suddenly with your aunt not doing well, you feel that there MUST be a blind inasrunce company out there flush with cash ready to cover this person, so when she passes away, you will become wealthy.Very few if any companies will do this, because she is in a nursing home, because she is quite ill, and because you have no vested interest in her.Any company willing to insure her will only do so, with a forfeiture of a few year period of non-payment is she dies, and also of only a small claim amount. In other words, someone will have to pay a bunch of money for a period of time, if she lives, hoping to collect it back when she dies. Nothing is for nothing. Was this answer helpful?

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