Comments on: American Health Care- Creating Survivors

By: Linda Stanton

Linda Stanton — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:33:59 +0000

Hey Peggy— not to scare you further but you should keep reading! Also if you habe an attorney friend that deals in constitutional law have him read it n join here! Once the bill goes thru…the Constitution will be thrown out. Mandat-ing everyone buy insurance is illegal n unconstitutional so with it they can do anything they want.so U see it is not about healthcare it is about power n total control! We R just pawns in the scheme of things! This is were the cost savings comes in…There is a section in Medicare When a person is of medicare age n applies for their social security they will be required to every 5 yrs be sent to a ceneter to discuss your end of life planning and or assisted death! Medicaid,special needs,VA, medigap anyone who does not pay will have next to no benefits as they do not cont-ribute. Mandantory sterilizations and federally funded abortions, illegals pay for nothing..it goes on n on. Thart is why they can’t take a part out or change anything or let republicals see it…. Every republican must be told. The president needs to be point blank asked..someone has to do it as pelosi is going to run thru n then we r doomed!

By: Judy Veeneman

Judy Veeneman — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:44:25 +0000

Thank you for sharing. There are many women who share your experiences but not the insight of the political repercussions being bandied about. After Obama’s speech tonight, I am sickened of even listening to his rhetoric. God help us all if this administration doesn’t get an eye opening experience soon.

By: srtacy smith

srtacy smith — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:04:05 +0000

I am so happy for you….
Faith is wonderful.

With Love,

Stacy

By: Jamie Dumont

Jamie Dumont — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:59:29 +0000

Just know that i am with you all the way and we cant let this pass. My sister hi-jacked my list of email address by using the window i had sent her about a tribute for 9-11. She is a very liberal dem. and she sent a video from moveon.org to everyone in my list so they would see it. I have my son’s commanding officers e-mail due to his being deployed in AFG. right now. She sent several e-mails to her, my son’s soldiers email, they are fighting a war right now she didnt need to do that. She is so smug and I am very upset to be used this way. Democrats will do anything to be heard. So must we. The video of course made everyone cry but said nothing about the facts, like Obama never does. It was a play on emotions to unsuspecting friends and associates of mine, to get the video heard. Shame on her and all Democrats who are so sneaky.

By: jane wharton

jane wharton — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:17:06 +0000

My Mother died of Breast Cancer, because it wasn’t caught in timr therefore, I am in a high risk group, so are my daughter and granddaughter. I do not want them to worry like I do everytime I go to have a mammogram.
I also am a survior of Ovarian Cancer which would not have been treated as quickly as it was if we have government run insurance. My Doctors quickly sent me to a specialst and they operated on me within a week. I did not have to take hormones or radiatin, because they got it all the first time. I was at home within two days.

By: Vickie Claflin

Vickie Claflin — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:12:15 +0000

Your argument only applies to those who HAVE. What about the HAVE NOTS? I can see why those who are covered with a reliable insurance policy would not want to change what works. What about those who have been shafted by insurance companies? My sister worked for 40 years and paid for insurance for all of those years. However,when she was diagnosed with cancer, because she has history with Lupus, her insurance dropped her leaving her to face this horrible disease without health insurance. Is health care the issue or is it fat and greedy insurance companies that have no sense of morality? Are we attacking the right foe?

By: LeAnn Kirrmann

LeAnn Kirrmann — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:09:17 +0000

My husband has multiple myeloma, it was diagnosed last year when I noticed he was looking pale and had alot of pains, all over. He finally fractured his back lifting a big barn beam. Within 1 month of fracturing his back, he was unable to walk, I was lifting him from a bed to a wheel chair. He started on a medication given intraveneously called Valcade. 1 in 3 people respond well to Valcade. He was one. But what if he needed a bone marrow (adult stem cell) transplant? What if it took longer to start treatment? What if he would have been older? What if a local or distant panel denied him treatment options? Not everyone responds the same to treatment. To any treatment. I have discovered this as a RN practicing 29 years. DENIAL OF TREATMENT OPTIONS IS A GREAT CONCERN TO ME. I do not believe that Politicians understand just how complicated treating people for disease can be. They just want to pay back those who are able bodied at the risk of the disabled.
Thanks!
FLifeforce@aol.com

By: Elle Fagan

Elle Fagan — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:52:43 +0000

You said it: “Under the government sponsored CER mandated in the House bill, researchers will compare treatment options for a host of diseases and develop a database to guide doctors’ decisions.

That sounds harmless. Unfortunately, this could lead to limiting or denying care based on age or disability of patients.”

The key word is COULD lead to controlling issues that stymie free and honest and timely and effective care. COULD.

We need all sorts of research, and the results must be added to the universal databanks for reference. Data, data data is the way we win …
HOWEVER, at every step we must be vigilant to see that the data collected and shared is GOOD DATA – not merely skewed logics translated into data.

This issue of creating and perveting information is KEY to almost every level of modern life – including the fast-forward hustle in Obamacare.

It’s not that I am Republican, but that my work has been always health-related since girlhood – lots of technology, too.

Unless we remain ACTIVELY interested, we will get what Man has always gotten, when they leave it to others and let power blocks just have their way.

It is possible to prove that red is white and up is down, using convincing logical paths, and the same is true of tech and scientific data. Hitler convinced many, many people that his logics were true enough to follow.

But most of the world did not know of him, till thousands had already died.

Today that is not true: we have instand media and lots of paths to interact and ’save the day’.

I do hope that wonderful people like Mrs. Larimer will continue to help us to be informed of things BEFORE they do harm to all of us.

My daughter is ACS and I use my art to help such causes – thru donations of my art and inspiration – it is the part of it that I can do right now – and notes like this one.

Thank you, Mrs. Larimer and all those in multi-media who help us with their part, too !

elle fagan

By: Suze

Suze — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:40:38 +0000

Jan, glad that you are a survivor. Also glad that you had wonderful insurance when the dreaded “C” attacked you.

And you are right, “This debate should not be about money alone.” But as a mother of a child stricken with the dreaded “C”, and insured, it didn’t take long for my loving family to learn what wasn’t covered. And choices had to be made.

Our nation’s for-profit insurance industry already RATIONS health care. You either have the money to afford the copays/deductible/not-covered expenses, or you don’t. And if you don’t, you do not have access to the necessary prescriptions and/or treatment/ hospitalization.

Congrats for evidently being employed by a company that was able to afford to cover all of your needs. And I’m sure, your family’s wealth. My child wasn’t quite as lucky to have parents employed by corporations that covered all of her treatments, drugs and care. She was loved more than any other child on this planet, but just not lucky enough to avoid the RATIONING of care in this great country.

By: Pat Hall

Pat Hall — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:38:02 +0000

Thank you for sharing your struggle and success when fighting breast cancer. Women of this nation must speak out so that out grandchildren can have the same results. NO TO OBAMACARE!!