Herman by Jim Unger for October 02, 2021

“Walk like an Egyptian” is on his playlist.

Will he be healed by then?

Welcome to the US healthcare system.

I’m to young for Medicare, to healthy for Medicaid, and to poor for Obamacare. I would be eligible for expanded Medicaid but my red state refuses to pass it. Excuse me while I go whimper in a corner.

Insurance companies determine how sick you are allowed to get.

Insurance companies tell doctors how to practice medicine.

Before I got my knee replaced, I had to get shots so as to be able to walk around. My doctor first tried cortisone, but I had a bad reaction to it. He had to try it twice again before the insurance company would pay for a more expensive medication. The second medication worked so well, that I could go 18 months without a shot.

When I went back, the insurance company would not pay for the second medication since I had not taken it for over 12 months. So we went back to the cortisone and I had to live in pain for a couple of extra moths to prove that it still did not work for me.

I learned my lesson. I kept records of when I got my shots. When I reached 11 months, I scheduled myself to have another one whether I needed it or not. All in the name of keeping the cost of medicine down.

When the government and insurance companies write the presecription for care, we all suffer.

This is a comic not a political stage, get a job and insurance

When my wife broke her foot, we had no insurance. There was no way we could have afforded the surgery without it. We had to wait several months until the new year so we could enroll. The bones started to heal out of place before then.

The only way the costs would ever come down is to strip regulations. That will never happen.

until then, keep him sedated……

Wow – I stared at that drawing several times trying to determine which end of the “mummy” I’’m looking at!

Personally I think the AMA and ADA control the number of practitioners so they are in high demand thus eliminating competition.