AWOP - Break HW

My family's experience with health care was not dramatic as the stories taken place in the movie SiCKO. Through my dad's job, my family [all four members of us] is covered by a private health insurance company called HealthNet. My mom also works for the board of Ed, where she is offered health insurance, however she does not use it due to the fact that she is covered through my dad's job. The health insurance that we are currently using is through a family package.
Between all four members of the family [including myself], I would have to say that my dad and I are the only people in the family who often uses insurance due to his heart condition and my knee injury in the past years. Based on my experiences, I have spent a long time in the emergency room just to get my knee checked out and x-rayed. The first time I went to the emergency room was in 3rd grade, in the hospital of joint diseases. I remember spending about 30-60 minutes to get my broken arm checked out. In my sophomore year of high school, I dislocated my knee for the first time in the middle of basketball practice. While i was laying helplessly on the gym floor, my coach called for an ambulance, which came 20-30 minutes after i dislocated my knee. I arrived at the emergency room in Beth Israel on 16 street and was waiting for about two hours just to get an x-ray and then was brought to another room another hour later for the doctor to take a look at me. The whole process took about 5 - 6 hours. Insurance payed for the emergency room , though there was a co-pay of $25. Insurance also refused to pay for the ambulance, which caused my mom to pay $500 for my dislocated knee to be driven from SOF [on 22nd street] all the way to 16 street--6 blocks and some avenues away from school...wtf.

The second time i dislocated my knee this past January, was taken place in Staten Island. Once again, the coach [from the opposing team] called an ambulance to pick me up--taking about 30-45 minutes for the ambulance to arrive (keep in mind that was the first time in was snowing in NY). The ride to the ambulance, in comparison to my last ambulance ride, was about 20-30 min longer than the 5 minute ride in Manhattan. The time i spent in the emergency room was about 20-30 min (x-rays taking an additional 10 minutes) and was taken into another room to rest & wait for my family. In all it took about 1 hour in Staten island, while it took 5-6 hours in Manhattan. Once again, insurance covered the time i spent in the emergency room, & there was still a co-pay, and refused to pay for the ambulance, though this time, my mom payed only $250.

My family never got to experience heavy bills that could not be payed or was denied treatment, unless you consider refusing to pay for my ambulance bill, then yeah. And never have i experienced a 'loving' doctor who took care of me in the most comfortable way. All the doctors who have taken care of me in the past, including my current knee doctor, all seem to be in a rush to see the next patient. There is never really a time where the doctor took his/her time to make sure and reassure that things were 'okay'.

My experience in the past hospitals differs from the experiences taken place in the movie SiCKO for the only reason that some people did not have health insurance and was forced to different ways to pay for the medical bills, while others [more towards the citizens of other countries] did not pay a single penny for health care at all. I thought it was amazing how so many countries provided free health care to all people. Specifically in the UK, the doctors work for the government where they get 3 times the amount of salary than government workers in the US. In the hospital, patients do not have to pay a fee either, instead they are given money, if needed, at a certain station called the 'cashier'. It ironic how the UK and many other countries have the time and money to provide for [almost] every individual while America continues to be greedy with the poor man's money. Because of WWII and the many wounded civilians and the fact that Britain became very poor, everything, including health care, was free. Although the US did not become a wreck like Britain, the US is still experiencing the recession. Because America has damaged more than a handful of different areas in the economy, it would be risky for anybody to do anything to try to fix health care because of all of the hidden connections made with the capitalists of our country.

It honestly does not make sense to deny any providence of health care only due to the fact that he/she does not 'meet the requirement'.

This ends the argument with an interesting statement from a man from the UK who basically stated 'if you have enough money to kill people [in war], then you have enough money to save people'.