OGRE [Member] in response to: "Health Care" or "Health Force" ?

OGRE [Member] — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:49:33 +0000

Read these two articles and you will see an example of what's to come. The U.S. would end up with the the same issue.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7827962.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7219373.stm

Rob [Visitor] in response to: "Health Care" or "Health Force" ?

Rob [Visitor] — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:24:15 +0000

I have a bit of a personal experience with this. In 1998, my mother was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, which had spread to some of her lymph nodes. She was insured under my stepfather's work insurance. After a long battle and several surgeries and bouts of radiation, she was "cured." However, once it was time to renew, she and my stepfather were dropped by the insurance company. About that time, her cancer starting acting up again. Nobody would take her and they ended up being over 400k in debt related to her treatment. As far as the insurance companies were concerned, she could just die rather than them covering her. It was that cold. Because I personally experienced the heartbreak and cold heartedness of so called "not-for-profit" HMOs, I think it's a good thing to introduce legislation to keep this from happening. Far too many people are dying due to them being SOL due to pre-existing condition. Universal healthcare is a necessity. If you want to talk about constitutionality, I find it absolutely criminal that I can go and rape and kill a bunch of kids or bomb churches or whatever and if I cannot afford an attorney, one is constitutionally guaranteed to me at the expense of everyone who obeys the law. However, if I get sick and can't afford a doctor, I am basically sh*t out of luck. There is something fundamentally wrong with that. The government can afford to provide health care for everyone and it has an obligation to do so because it has a vested interest in the well-being of its citizens. This does not need to be funded with new government spending, but through cuts in some unnecessary beaurocracies and agencies that serve absolutely no purpose other than suck up funding, like DHS, among others. That and making Iraq pay us back for us "liberating" them.

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