[Randomology]

Yokuutsu: Hmm..that doesn't quite sound right to me. I think what Fizzy is getting at is that football players get paid millions to play a game. I know that a large crackdown happened a couple years back on football players making too much money for something so trivial as entertainment. Football is cool and all, but if they put so much as 30% into hospitals and away from their bank accounts, then they could save millions of people's lives who have nothing and need medical treatment. I seriously doubt that football alone would cripple cities if they stop playing, especially when we have so many other charities, government fundings, trusts, even other sports to compensate. Not to mention the majority of collected tax is supposed to be recycled into the economy to allow businesses and communities to continue to thrive. Cutting football and ridding ourselves of their stadiums would fund enough money back into main stream society that not only would hospitals benefit, but schools, fire departments, law enforcement, even city halls and would take a large chunk from our national debt if we spent that money more on trade relations with other countries. Taking this into consideration, our country would be rich again. So much we could adopt the Indian system of medical assistance, where if you are sick or injured, you don't pay for treatment. The only time you would pay is if you are completely healthy, and you get charged a small checkup fee. In a sense you are paying for what you want; good health.
As for the hospital stuff, the medical assistance company in question is Blue Cross Blue Shield. They won't do copay. they spent no more than 5% on our major bill, and cut doctor fees by 50%. They have a policy that they won't cover anything below the margin of $2110. Anything below that and they can spend as much as "they want". They withhold the right to refuse service to anyone who doesn't meet their criteria. In a sense, we aren't sick enough or injured enough. I think it's preposterous that medical bills apparently from what my mother has told me(she works for Texas Healthcare Foundation) is that those messages about paying in full are optional, and are mostly put in to place to intimidate one to pay quickly. Scare tactics don't work on me. I'll take on a bulldozer if I have to! Medicare and Medicaid are a joke in my opinion. They always seem to make you feel protected with all the money pumped into them, but never work when you need them the most.