|
notafootballplay er
|
The Doctors at OAA Orthopaedic Specialists will help NFL retirees who have had the opportunity to earn thousands or millions of dollars but what about the people in your community? Do we get freecare to????
|
|
Working Slob
|
Let me get this straight ... the doctors will provide medical treatment at no charge to people who earned megabucks during their careers while continuing to soak the working slobs to make up for the freebies. Par for the course.
|
|
Bill Harris
|
Quite magnanimous. These services aren't "free." The doctors' other patients, who can pay for their care, make up the difference. That's the way it's always been. My mother's recent surgery at LV Hospital cost $41,000, and she received a "form" letter from the hospital stating that if she could not afford to pay her bill she would be forgiven. Her Medicare and Blue Cross paid for it, but if she wasn't covered her tab would have been picked up by others whose insurance, or lifetime savings, would have been tapped.
|
|
David-1206
|
Working Slob wrote: Let me get this straight ... the doctors will provide medical treatment at no charge to people who earned megabucks during their careers while continuing to soak the working slobs to make up for the freebies. Par for the course. On one hand, you have to feel a sense of sorrow for these people who have been seriously injured playing a very rough game that they knew involved a fair amount of physical trauma to their bodies. However, none of these people were drafted into playing football either. All of them at least attended college and one would believe that they have a modicrum of intelligence that says, being slammed into the ground on a routine, ongoing basis is bad for your health. The fact is that we live in a jock society that we hold up atheletes as 'role models', and yes the megabucks we pay these people to perform each week tends to elevate them up on pedistals in society. When the limelight is off, we find that they are just like anyone else who puts their bodies through trauma... and the lifestyles they enjoyed while performing for the public no longer exist and they've come crashing down to join the rest of us in society. Do I feel sorry for them, yes, as they are in physical pain and are suffering from on-the-job injuries. Who should care for them? The NFL, as their former employer contributed to their physical injuries and should be held responsible for their medical care if they can't take care of it themselves. Not the taxpayer or others in society to subsidise their medical costs by paying higher medical fees to support them.
|
|
thinking
|
I'm sure these guys would be happy to pay the 450 a month that I pay in retirement for insurance. The fact is that marking them uninsureable creates a huge problem for them. Look at those rates per year!
This problem extends to others like my friend whose cancer came back and she's reaching her million dollar cap because of the cost of weekly treatments. They, too, can't get more insurance and are paying thousands a month for the policy they have. Luckily she's found a way through some great doctors.
We need realistic fee schedules in this country.
I know a lot of local doctors who do free work or reduce fees for people without insurance. There's always a way.
|
|
Working Slob
|
David-1206 wrote: <quoted text>
On one hand, you have to feel a sense of sorrow for these people who have been seriously injured playing a very rough game that they knew involved a fair amount of physical trauma to their bodies.
However, none of these people were drafted into playing football either. All of them at least attended college and one would believe that they have a modicrum of intelligence that says, being slammed into the ground on a routine, ongoing basis is bad for your health.
The fact is that we live in a jock society that we hold up atheletes as 'role models', and yes the megabucks we pay these people to perform each week tends to elevate them up on pedistals in society.
When the limelight is off, we find that they are just like anyone else who puts their bodies through trauma... and the lifestyles they enjoyed while performing for the public no longer exist and they've come crashing down to join the rest of us in society.
Do I feel sorry for them, yes, as they are in physical pain and are suffering from on-the-job injuries.
Who should care for them? The NFL, as their former employer contributed to their physical injuries and should be held responsible for their medical care if they can't take care of it themselves.
Not the taxpayer or others in society to subsidise their medical costs by paying higher medical fees to support them. Very well said.
|
|
Frank
|
It's nice to finally see someone doing something to help one of America's most vulnerable populations - former professional athletes.
|
|
i love joepa
|
Football players rock!
|
|
|
|
MLA
|
David-1206 wrote: <quoted text>
On one hand, you have to feel a sense of sorrow for these people who have been seriously injured playing a very rough game that they knew involved a fair amount of physical trauma to their bodies.
However, none of these people were drafted into playing football either. All of them at least attended college and one would believe that they have a modicrum of intelligence that says, being slammed into the ground on a routine, ongoing basis is bad for your health.
The fact is that we live in a jock society that we hold up atheletes as 'role models', and yes the megabucks we pay these people to perform each week tends to elevate them up on pedistals in society.
When the limelight is off, we find that they are just like anyone else who puts their bodies through trauma... and the lifestyles they enjoyed while performing for the public no longer exist and they've come crashing down to join the rest of us in society.
Do I feel sorry for them, yes, as they are in physical pain and are suffering from on-the-job injuries.
Who should care for them? The NFL, as their former employer contributed to their physical injuries and should be held responsible for their medical care if they can't take care of it themselves.
Not the taxpayer or others in society to subsidise their medical costs by paying higher medical fees to support them. I agree with you, I was in shock reading this article.
|
|
Will
|
Sheesh...this is like Michael Eisner or Bill Gates winning the lottery..
|
|
Sandi
|
Working Slob wrote: Let me get this straight ... the doctors will provide medical treatment at no charge to people who earned megabucks during their careers while continuing to soak the working slobs to make up for the freebies. Par for the course. Some of these guys did not earn megabucks. My jog does not require me to get hit by 300 lb linemen. My job does not put me in a position to get 15 concusions and 17 fractures in my back. What is wrong with you people. I think it is great that these doctors are helping these ex NFL greats.
|
|
Rona
|
Let's learn a lesson from this. Why do we encourage our kids to play these dangerous sports -- because the public idolizes them. If people had as many injuries in the workplace, OSHA would be there in a heartbeat. We need to find sports that don't leave players with serious injuries that cost thousands of dollars in medical costs! My heart goes out to the people that have injuries through no fault of their own, not to players that go into sports that that are well documented that cause serious injuries.
|
|
YIPPEE
|
Sandi wrote: <quoted text>Some of these guys did not earn megabucks. My jog does not require me to get hit by 300 lb linemen. My job does not put me in a position to get 15 concusions and 17 fractures in my back. What is wrong with you people. I think it is great that these doctors are helping these ex NFL greats. Maybe you should help these ex NFL greats with their medical costs.
|
|
Clarence
|
They going to pick up the tab on the vets from Iraq too?
|
|
SOBE
|
''I felt an obligation to take care of the guys that have been forgotten,'' Palumbo said Wednesday.''Â… It's nothing new for me to do this. Now I have the venue to do it.''
Palumbo said doctors routinely treat patients at no charge, and he had been reaching out to the NFL Players Association, the players union, for a few years to provide such a service but received no response.
These doctors do this all the time free of charge for people. Just because he reached out to a group of people who would need this type of service doesn't mean it's wrong.
Maybe if people could read an article and comprehend what you read there would be more understanding in this world. Instead people hear only what their narrow minds want them to hear. I think it's a great gesture on behalf of the doctors regardless of who the beneficiary is.
And if you think all the players past and present in the NFL are worth mega bucks you are naive. The majority are not.
|
|
TRIPLE K
|
Well said Clarence, and the agent orange victims from the Vietnam era, and the poor guys and gals from the Korean war...99 percent were put into action there, but we dont idolize war vets, but a football player, why are they there to earn MEGA BUCKS, it's their choice to be there, well, my suggestion to them, learn to put aside money like us poor b@$t@rds got to do....
|
|
Sandi
|
YIPPEE wrote: <quoted text>
Maybe you should help these ex NFL greats with their medical costs. Oh I am sorry. I am not a negative, nasty, pissy person so I can't have an opinion. Guess what? I don't think OJ did it and I don't believe in capital punishment and I think smoker should be able to smoke whereever they want and I think the limit for drinking and driving should have stayed at 1.0 and I think everyone should have rights! Ok?
|
|
Sandi
|
SOBE wrote: ''I felt an obligation to take care of the guys that have been forgotten,'' Palumbo said Wednesday.''Â… It's nothing new for me to do this. Now I have the venue to do it.''
Palumbo said doctors routinely treat patients at no charge, and he had been reaching out to the NFL Players Association, the players union, for a few years to provide such a service but received no response.
These doctors do this all the time free of charge for people. Just because he reached out to a group of people who would need this type of service doesn't mean it's wrong.
Maybe if people could read an article and comprehend what you read there would be more understanding in this world. Instead people hear only what their narrow minds want them to hear. I think it's a great gesture on behalf of the doctors regardless of who the beneficiary is.
And if you think all the players past and present in the NFL are worth mega bucks you are naive. The majority are not. Thank you. One other person that isn't narrowminded and miserable and negative!
|
|
DRM
|
This is an outrage. How can any enterprise with the pockets the NFL has, can sit back and allow this. Taking care of their own should be as big as signing a 1st round pick or glorifying a great player. These guy put there bodies on the line and yet, have to fend for themselves isn't exceptable.
|
|
Sandi
|
Clarence wrote: They going to pick up the tab on the vets from Iraq too? Why don't you call them and ask them? I am sure they already do. Did you read the article. The doctors reached out to the association and they didn't even hear back from them because they couldn't believe what a nice gesture this was and thought it was too good to be true. Can't we praise them and say it's great. If they didn't do it you would criticize them too!
|
Judge it!
Most Popular
