Glenn Beck (asshole) says our health system is best in the world: Post your horror stories

of managed care: HMO, PPO, etc.

but don't expect beck to understand them - just a corporate shill

will suffice.

Health:
http://www.stateofworkingamerica.org/tabfig_2008_07.html

International Comparisons:
http://www.stateofworkingamerica.org/tabfig_2008_08.html

health care system for ratings, now he praising the health care system for ratings.

After my divorce I lost my health insurance (covered under ex hubby). I applied to Blue Cross/Blue Shield for a minimal personal policy for protection against catastrophic illness ($500 deductable). I have taken Prozac for mild depression in the past and had been on it when I applied (getting a divorce can be stressful and depressing). Anyway I explained I've never had any major problems with depression, just take a couple of Prozac a day, it lifts the fog. I'm not disabled from the depression, I've never been suicidal or been hospitalized for depression. It's just a mild/moderate thing that is very easily controlled with meds. Well...I was DENIED of course. I did get a policy through Unicare but of course they won't cover anything that has to do with the pre-exisiting condition. I pay $250 a month out of pocket and get 70% coverage after my $500 deductable for anything else though. Not great but better than nothing.
Recently I went to get my Prozac prescription renewed. Nearest network doctor was an hour away. Had to take off a half a day of work. For the 5 minutes it took the doctor to talk to me and write the prescription, I was billed $100 (which of course I have to pay out of pocket). Considering I bring in about $1000 a month from my minimum wage job (cuz there's nothing else out there right now, no one's hiring), $100 is a lot of money, (add in gas and lost income and we're probably talking another $100). Plus I have to pay for meds out of pocket too (luckily I found I can get the $4 deal at Walmart even though I hate Walmart to the core of my being, I must patronize them for this). So that's my story, no, not a horror story but it's just another example of a hard working person whose hard earned money is going down the toilet because if this fucked health care system we have.

is part of the problem.

There are "horror stories" about every health care system in the world and no matter what we end up with, even if the govt paid everything for everyone there will be "horror stories".

Instead of "horror stories" why don't we focus on the facts and the situation as a whole.