Posted on 12/11/2013 10:45:04 AM PST by ShadowAce
Obamacare: If you don’t like you cancer, you can keep you cancer.
A relative of mine had cancer, they lived for many years due to the advance medal care available to them. Lived well into their 80’s, died form old age and not cancer. Under Obama they would have died approx. 15 years earlier.
Amen! MD Anderson has performed miracles for so many people.
Hope you have a great Christmas!
Give them all a bacon enema!
Our nations health care system was sent on a path of destruction by the Late Senator Teddy The Swimmer who was never anything but the best health care taxpayers could buy. The HMO Act which is what mainly killed off affordable private insurance. HMO's will be the ones managing whatever sort of abomination this all works out too.
18 years ago before I had to retire I had decent health care insurance. My employer a health care facility with about 200 employees was self insured. Even at lower wages the $500 deductible a year I could absorb. I chose any doctor I wanted and any hospital. The company was also protected by a catastrophic policy they carried when it hit the $10K yr mark on an individual.
What angers me most was most of the underlying causes of high health care cost were never addressed to start with. One was the HMO ACT. The next of course was Tort Reform for doctors and hospitals. The FDA also needed to make it much easier, quicker, and a fraction of the cost to get newer drugs on the market.
The doctors have been made out to look like greedy monsters in all of this. My doctor still makes hospital rounds. When my wife is in the hospital he shows up about 6:00am. I know for a fact he's still seeing patients in his office at 5:00pm. In 28 years of dealing with many doctors for my wife's ongoing issues only two doctors she ever saw should have been disciplined. One was a dentist doing procedures he was not trained to do and other was a Moron in an ER who did not do a simple PDR on medications and adverse reactions. The ER doctor I took care of not by suing but by contacting hospital Chief Of Staff and telling him what happened.
We've done been through several health care non availability crisis after our state in about 1995 went to a HMO System on Medicaid thnks to a DEM governor and a RINO to follow as well as the help of Gore. We lost two doctors in about a year and none would take my wife because of dual eligibility. I was smart enough to have enough on hand the have to have medications to cover the six month plus Gaps.
I believe that unless the 2014 election produces some very major turnover in congress including the booting out of the current GOP leadership sell outs McConnell and BooHooner our health care system as we knew it before the PelosiCare/ObamaCare Tyranny will be in complete chaos.
We need term limits in Congress. Eight years lifetime for REPs and no more than Twelve years lifetime for senators. Perhaps it's also time to start electing Federal Judges rather than having appointed Feral Judges on the bench. There should be no lifetime appointments in any court.
I do think, however, that there may be some creative solutions that emerge. The one thing MDA has is a lot of money and a lot of influence. It would not surprise me if they teamed with certain selected insurers and came up with their own plans (which may include a penalty to have to be paid to the looter government) that would allow access to MDA under the current law. They also may take the tack of suing FedGov over this for things such as monopolistic practices, unfair restraint of trade, unfair price fixing/price manipulation, or things of that nature. They should have standing for lawsuits of these types because of the financial damage that will be done to them by the looter government.
......and I am so thankful you and all of us have access to such fine hospitals.
I understand your anger...
Just recently my husband was spared because his doctor refered him to the Mayo Clinic...
I can't imagine not having the choice of our great hospitals.
Daily, our citizens are inundated with more c-r-a-p from this administration.
We are all at the breaking point.
What a waste of bacon!!!
;-)
Hope your doing well, Jeff!
Thank you. I am.
I have known about this for well over a year and contacted MD Anderson, my Congressional Rep and my US Senator.
This was going to go into effect this calender year (2014), but becuase of the mid-terms, Obama pushed it back a year to 2015 because this and many other provisions of the group mandate (like it did with the individual mandate) are going to directly impact millions of people and he did not want to further exacerbate and already bad situation for the DNC.
These people who are ofisting this on America are a bunch of slovenly, slick tongued, bastards and scheisters. I say this not so much because of its impact on me, but more because of the hundreds and hundreds of children I have seen down there over the years who are being helped by the unbelievable talented and compassionate people at MD Anderson and other places who now will not be able to get that level of cre.
And it is the intent of these little fascists and progressives to hurt the health care of America...not improve it. Even though they wrap it up in such names as the “Affordable Health Care Act.”
So, this year will be my last visit to MD Anderson for care. I will have to use the Idaho facilities who already told me they did not want to try and treat such a rare cancer. I am sure they will do their best now.
As I figure it, there is a God in Heaven, and the affiars of man are under His watch. If He wants me home, there is no power on earth that will keep me here. if He wants me to stay, there is no power on earth that can take me. I gladly turn my well being and future over to Him whoi is moghty to save. And will be happy with His decision either way.
God’s speed...and thanks for asking.
I saw a doctor’s bill to my son this week. He’s ‘self-pay’ and for such earns something like a 50% ‘discount.’ Nice!
MD Anderson will accept Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum plans from the healthcare exchange in 2014.
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