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5 hours ago, RonD1120 said:

I don't pay much attention to health insurance. In fact, many years I had none at all.

Now my wife and I have a Medicare Supplement Plan F through AARP. We each pay about $200/mo. We have no co-pays. We have a drug plan with WellCare that runs about $16/mo. Many of our regular Rx meds are free or less than $20.

As a back up, I maintain active patient status with the VA. I get a physical 1X/yr. My Rx meds are cheaper with WellCare.

Whenever we need medical care we pray and ask the Lord to guide us to the best Christian physician available.

It's great that you pray for medical help, and that that comforts you.  It's also great that socialism provides you with most of the medical care you need.  Win/win.

Perhaps the next time you are considering launching another anti-socialism tirade, it would be worth keeping that in mind.

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10 hours ago, RonD1120 said:

I don't pay much attention to health insurance. In fact, many years I had none at all.

Now my wife and I have a Medicare Supplement Plan F through AARP. We each pay about $200/mo. We have no co-pays. We have a drug plan with WellCare that runs about $16/mo. Many of our regular Rx meds are free or less than $20.

As a back up, I maintain active patient status with the VA. I get a physical 1X/yr. My Rx meds are cheaper with WellCare.

Whenever we need medical care we pray and ask the Lord to guide us to the best Christian physician available.

Agreed Ron,

For the last few years, I have visited a medical clinic owned by a pair of Coptic Christians who immigrated from Egypt. They recently hired a third Coptic Christian general physician. One time they had a Nigeria lady doctor working for them temproarily.

The most helpful doctor was a South African Boer, so I suspect that he was a Dutch Reformed Christian. I cried when he retired.

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11 hours ago, RonD1120 said:

... As a back up, I maintain active patient status with the VA. I get a physical 1X/yr. My Rx meds are cheaper with WellCare. ...

Hello Ron,

If you are treated by the Venterans' Adminstration, then you are on a form of socialized medicine.

That is how Canada developed our current MediCare programs. It all started after the First World War when Ottawa established the Veterans' Affairs Department to attend to wounded soldiers' long-term medical problems.

After WW2, they extended those benefits to the children of retired soldiers, then the wives of retired soldiers, then eventually every Canadian citizen.

Recently, even refugees from Syria have gotten free medical benefits upon arrival because Canadians understand that early medical intervention can prevent chronic illness or disability. Fore example, my church recently sponsored a Syrian family and we donated heavily for dental care because the children had never visited a dentist in their homeland and their teeth were in rough shape.

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