Nothing Wrong With US Healthcare?

Live long and prosper. If you can make the payments.

So Limbaugh is out of hospital and in fine fettle. Inevitably, as he addressed the press upon his release from hospital, this had to come:

"I don't think there's one thing wrong with the United States health system," Limbaugh said.

I guess all those Limbaugh listeners with Medicare or good quality employer plans will believe him. But there are many of us with experiences of the US healthcare system that differ.

2009 sucked for our family. My wife's mom died and, being uninsured, everything she had owned was automatically sucked up by the hospital that treated her in lieu of payment.

We're uninsured too because my wife selfishly chose to have a preexisting condition that prevents us from getting insurance. So we'll also remember 2009 as the year we got a $6,000 bill from the local Baptist hospital ER for a CAT scan and a five minute chat with a doctor (in the case of these good Christians, the quality of mercy was very much strained).

Nothing wrong with that? If you agree, there's either a hole in your brain where reason should be or a hole in your heart where compassion usually resides. But hey, like Limbaugh, you could afford to get it fixed because you obviously have good insurance.