from deviantart
Despite how ugly and twisted politics is these days, it certainly produces some intriguing global synchronicities. Take the case of Maryland physician and anesthesiologist Andy Harris. He just won a Republican seat in Congress, after campaigning on a platform strongly opposing “Obama care.” One of his battle cries was that he would “repeal health-care reform.”
So, during his orientation as a GOP freshman. he learned that his government health care wouldn’t kick in until February 2011, 30 days after the new Congress begins. What does Harris do? He has a temper tantrum, demanding to know why his government health insurance takes that long to kick in.. And then he wants to wanted to know if he could buy insurance from the government to cover the gap.
So the man who announced during his campaign that a public health care option was “a gateway to socialized medicine,” is now discovering what millions of people live with daily – no health care. The universe, it seems, has a way of showing us where our beliefs are flawed. But I doubt if Harris will draw the connection between his campaign platform and his 30 day wait for health insurance.
BTY, Harris’ interest in buying insurance from the government to cover the gap, well, that’s called the public option. Or, as conservative opponents called it, the ‘dreaded’ public option with government rather than insurance companies providing health care. Very interesting what happens when it gets close and personal.
Imagine how long the wait might be for mentally unbalanced people! I understand your concern, especially with all the misinformation you're spewing.
You'r right, We need National Health Care even though it may take YOU ten years to have the doctors look at that back problem you have, Which in the mean time you are looking for work.
Even though you fell down from the roof putting up christmas lights so have other people. and if you don't like the practices of a certain doctor that knows nothing………….well you are outta luck since you cannot switch doctors.
But who needs choices anyways since it's better for us to be herded.
The same thing happened to us in the dominica republic. rob got an infected thumb, went to the local doc – visit: $10 and the doc apologized for that. Said the locals paid $2. Gave him a prescription for augmentin, I think it was. $20. Here? $75 and upward.
The trip to Mexico reminds me of a medication my wife was taking in 1992. It cost $6 for thirty days worth of generic or $30 of the name brand for the same number of tablets.
I bought a six month supply of the name brand for $12 in Egypt. The bottle was identical from the same manufacturer in the US.
The US pharmaceutical companies claim they pour their obscene profits into R&D. They almost give their products away outside the US by charging more than most Americans can pay in the US.
Ray
WV: Cialats. Is that Cialis misspelled?
So sad and angry for you all. I pray for sense and reason.
I think it's going to get a lot worse with the repugs now in charge in congress.Obama should have started with a higher bar – medicare for everyone. True universal health coverage.
I sympathize……..I was stunned at the virulent hatred with which "Obamacare" was attacked in the elections……they made it sound here as if he had forced some terrible, oppressive communism on everyone. I know so many old people here in Arizona who have lost their homes because of medical costs. I am beginning to think that we are rapidly becoming a capitalist aristocracy; only the wealthy will afford good healthcare (if any), and only the wealthy will also be, ultimately, the ones who receive a good education.
we all have such horror stories of medicines needed but not obtainable for those on fixed income – for example, one of my own medications, which my doctors will not switch as it works best for me, is not even covered by any medicare/alt plan – not even with a co-pay – and it is $150/mo – however, my other few meds i have discovered are actually LESS expensive if i just use the pharmacy discount plan [$4.00 program or whatever] and don't use my m/c-insurance at all – so – i will be discontinuing my m/c alt plan and save myself that $200 a month premium – just such a sordid mess, health care here in the land of the free!
interesting wv – cratores –
Lauren, I agree with you. It's a crime. My husband is brittle diabetic, insulin-dependent, and although he continues to work six days a week, full time, and owns his own business, he's on a LOT of medications for various issues besides diabetes: CAD, (coronary artery disease), hypertension, etc, and last year had a partial nephrectomy due to a very aggressive kidney cancer.(Cured by surgery) Bottom line, he requires multiple meds to keep him up and going, and requires necessary frequent procedures that will not be covered after January 2011 by Medicare. But thank God for our cardiologist and our primary physician. They give us loads of samples of his meds all the time, that the Big Pharma companies give to the doctors on a regular basis. Our primary even gives hubby his insulin and several of his oral meds. Without this kindness, he wouldn't survive because there is no way we would be able to afford his life-sustaining drugs. Other folks aren't as fortunate. My primary tells me that many of her colleagues allow the meds given to them by the drug reps to sit in their offices and expire rather than offering them to patients. This is another travesty. The physicians who have these drugs sitting in their offices can give them to patients. Again, we are grateful beyond words that our two physicians show us this kindness. It's a TRUE life-saver for my husband. When my thyroid med, (not Synthroid), was temporarily back-logged and unavailable, our primary actually told us to order it from Canada and gave us the address for the reliable Canadian Drug CO, where the med wasn't back-logged! I followed her instructions until mine became available again here. What a shame and a crime this country is perpetrating against its citizens! cj
It's criminal, Lauren. That's what we get in a for profit health care system.
I have to add to this, being a low income person, and also living in Arizona. I think what is most sad is the way people are so easily manipulated by special interest groups. I have asthma, and can't afford my expensive medication, Advair, which is a whopping $250.00 a month, so I go to Nogales, Mexico to buy it, where, oddly, it costs $50.00. That $200.00 profit …… why?
It isn't just Arizona that is in the extermination business. And it isn't just low-income people. We received out new MEDICARE book for 2011 in the mail, and I sat down and very carefully read the entire thick book, word for word. Older people, expecially older people with illnesses, some chronic, some life-threatening, are also going to exterminated, and not too slowly. MEDICARE, beginning in January, is eliminating its payments for necessary procedures that keep such patients alive. The "elderly" are going to be dropping like flies all over this country, due to no access to essential medical care such as follow-up procedures after cancer, etc, and procedures for continuing cardiac issues and medication checking. Not to mention procedures that are prophylactic; that will detect issues in early stages and allow intervention. This is planned culling of older people in America, and it is despicable. Yesterday in the mail we received notice from our private supplemental medical insurance company that our insurance premiums are being significantly raised in January of 2011. The across-the-board changes in the Medicaid and Medicare systems are going to cause the unnecessary deaths of sick children, low-income people, and the elderly. Dastardly. Absolutely dastardly.
Very synchronistic WV: "ratio"
I guess that sums it up nicely. cj
My apologies to Mike for spelling his name without a capitol letter in the above comment.I was horrified when I re-read that comment and found that error.
Sorry again / daz .-)
Michael Moore was on CNN as a guest to (I don't remember) and had recently told people if they could find the obscure part of the bill that refered to anther law for the preexisting condition part. A man called in and stated it refred to USC cde and that USC code was a $100 a day fine for breaking that law. Much cheaper to bet on the odds of someone dieing before the cost of a new kidney…
I'd love see Sicko made into compulsory viewing. And all of his other movies, too. The man is brilliant.
The system here just worsens daily. 98 patients in Arizona who need transplants to stay alive have now been denied the transplants because of Arizona's governor.
I agree with mike.Australia has the same type of health care system as England and Canada and I couldn't imagine living in the US under your unhealthy health care system.
I read somewhere that schools in the US were going to make showing Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" compulsory viewing.
Well,maybe they should make Michael Moore's "Sicko" compulsory viewing as well.-)
drama Dr. AMA
Roe vs. Wade,, to swim up stream or just wade around
well, the fema/halliburton camps WITH the plastic coffins are waiting on everyone right this minute – oh, and did you notice the part of the video where, while ventura's cameras were still rolling, halliburton had truck after truck after truck loading up the plastic coffins and moving them out of the wired compound with trails of dirt in their wind –
and sad is such an understatement, even, isn't it!
wv = ceound – CEO under? 😉
I shook my head sadly when I heard this story on the news. But what will become of our country, the one I used to think was unmatched in the world? Where did we go wrong??
That's a horrifying statistic, Butternut. It makes it look like a deliberate extermination of low income people.
$87 million to fight the health care program! What a horrific sin. How many people could have afforded their transplants in Arizona with that money.
'Starting Oct. 1, Arizona's state Medicaid began reversing its approval of organ transplants for 98 low-income patients, according to NPR. The abrupt change came from a series of budget-cutting measures taken by the Republican-controlled state legislature and signed into law by Gov. Jan Brewer.'
98 x 200,000 = 19,600,000
That would have covered a few other states as well.
WV-mizedcro, looks like crazy crooked medicine to me.
I agree with you, Nancy. The politicians who ran on a platform against "Obamacare" should be the first NOT to get their health insurance.
This man is just "thick!" I think absolutely NONE of our elected officials should have health care until their constituents have it.
well, that isn't exactly what I call it!!!
The insurance companies spent $87 million to fight the health care program, even though it mandated everyone to buy health care from insurance companies.
This was the kind of health care that Republicans wanted until it was offered by Obama. Then it became 'Obama care' and they did everything to kill it and keep 40 million Americans without coverage.
They call that freedom.
Unbelievable. Everyone in Canada, just across the border, can go to a doctor or get their teeth fixed – they may complain about waiting in line, but at least, if they do wait in line, they get what they need eventually. And I haven't heard anyone call Canada a communist country yet.
The hypocrisy of politicians.
I find it hard to believe, living in England, that millions of people haven't got health care. Our National Health Service may not be perfect but we can all get medical care when needed. Why would anyone be against a system like this? Big Money I suppose.