TAKE OUR GOVERMENT BACK
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The AARP reps were obviously Obama supporters, if they wored for me, they would be FIRED, total disrespect for those AARP members.
- Sep 27, 2005
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Rationing is one of the terms the right likes to throw around to scare people about health reform. The government is going to ration care! They won?t cover important procedures! They?ll put senior citizens to death to save money! We?ve heard all of these arguments.
They neglect to mention, though, that rationing is already a part of our private health insurance system. Take this story from California:
In late April, Shelly Andrews-Buta was scheduled to undergo treatment for breast cancer that had spread to her brain, threatening her life.
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But instead of having doctors working to remove her brain tumors on the day the surgery was scheduled, she sat in a San Francisco hotel room. Why? Because at the last minute, her insurance company, Blue Shield, decided it wasn?t going to pay for the treatment her doctors at UCSF Medical Center had recommended.
?she was surprised to learn that the company?s policy lays out that a patient who has more than three brain tumors, what doctors call lesions, would not be covered for the gamma knife procedure. [Via Donklephant]
Of course, this is different, because it?s a private insurer choosing to let Andrews-Buta die. If it leads to improved profit margins for a private company, rationing is apparently just fine.
http://mnpublius.com/2009/08/private-health-insurance-leads-to-health-care-rationing/
They neglect to mention, though, that rationing is already a part of our private health insurance system. Take this story from California:
In late April, Shelly Andrews-Buta was scheduled to undergo treatment for breast cancer that had spread to her brain, threatening her life.
?
But instead of having doctors working to remove her brain tumors on the day the surgery was scheduled, she sat in a San Francisco hotel room. Why? Because at the last minute, her insurance company, Blue Shield, decided it wasn?t going to pay for the treatment her doctors at UCSF Medical Center had recommended.
?she was surprised to learn that the company?s policy lays out that a patient who has more than three brain tumors, what doctors call lesions, would not be covered for the gamma knife procedure. [Via Donklephant]
Of course, this is different, because it?s a private insurer choosing to let Andrews-Buta die. If it leads to improved profit margins for a private company, rationing is apparently just fine.
http://mnpublius.com/2009/08/private-health-insurance-leads-to-health-care-rationing/
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Doctors tell you what you need, insurance companies tell you what they will pay for. Talk about rationing, it is occuring right now in the US of A.
The CEO of United Health Care owns $744,232,068 in stocks, makes over $100,000 an hour and they deny coverage to desperate families who were paying their premiums and thought their children would be taken care of in case they needed to.
Not under the current rationing system. Under the rationing of health care companies, some people, in particular children, who if saved might continue to require care for a very long time, are not just worth saving. A certain governor who quitted her job was talking about "death squad." She should give a buzz to these families featured in this video who will tell her how the current system indeed decides who lives and dies.
And you think these guys are spending $1.4 million dollars a day to make the system better?
Credulity has its limit AMERICA!!!!
The CEO of United Health Care owns $744,232,068 in stocks, makes over $100,000 an hour and they deny coverage to desperate families who were paying their premiums and thought their children would be taken care of in case they needed to.
Not under the current rationing system. Under the rationing of health care companies, some people, in particular children, who if saved might continue to require care for a very long time, are not just worth saving. A certain governor who quitted her job was talking about "death squad." She should give a buzz to these families featured in this video who will tell her how the current system indeed decides who lives and dies.
And you think these guys are spending $1.4 million dollars a day to make the system better?
Credulity has its limit AMERICA!!!!
