I hate this for profit, price gouging, health care system

[kairos12]

Article in local paper describes this:

A woman has an illness that no insurance company will cover and she won't make it till exchanges are set up, nor does she have the money to buy insurance from the pre-existing condition pool.

Our Red State Gov pulled funding for people who don't earn enough money or can't get insurance.

She just turned 26 so she is off her parents plan.

She can apply for SSDI and maybe get some coverage with that but she will die before the paperwork is finished.

She is basically told to go home and die.

There is your actual death panel brought to you by private insurance and Red State Tea Baggers.

I hate them all.

[wercal]

1. Do you have a link to the article?

...or is your local paper stuck on ink and newsprint only?

[TexasTowelie]

5. I know newspapers in those backwards areas.

They still use chisel and slab. It causes a lot of medical injuries when the deliverer throws it out of the car.

[patrice]

2. & There are/will be others and people wonder why some do not love the USA.

[spanone]

3. me too. the last concern in the chain is the patient.

[RainDog]

4. It's morally repulsive

and yet it's those in political life who claim they are so moral and godly who speak against health care for Americans.

People like Bachmann - who, really, is an evil person for using religion to justify her awful political stances.

[Swede Atlanta]

6. Yes....this is the patient is not part of our model plan.....

I have a friend in California on Medical with terminal cancer. They are so choosy over this drug and that drug and force the patient to jump through hoops. This is a public program but it behaves like a private insurer.

We do no provide care for the sick. We protect insurers from care for the sick.

This is opposite of the objective. REVOLUTION!!!!

[damilgin]

7. I agree

My company switched to Humana. I have a chronic health condition and the medication I've taken for 16 years -generic mind you- is considered specialty medication bt Humana. My copay went from $160 for a 90 day supply, to over $600 for a 90 day supply. I had to find copay assistance so I could have medication. Avoid Humana at all cost.
I hate insurance companies too, espcially Humana.

[nightscanner59]

8. Exactly why I am planning a mexico trip to get my MRI

Blue Cross screwed me out of coverage after job loss 3 years ago, sent me the Cobra that quoted over 4000 bucks a month to continue care of my condition after I got hurt. Unsure of how much better I can get now, I only keep my catastrophic plan to cover major emergencies now.

[Left Turn Only]

9. The People's Trust in Corporations

How can the people in this country continue to trust corporations over their own government for their health care? Corporations need to take care of their stockholders first before the patients, so why are people always so easily swayed by the propaganda of the 1% every time we get lucky enough to get leadership willing to give us universal health care? Even with a bought-out Congress, we will always have more say in matters concerning our government then we would ever have with a corporation's board of directors.

What we need is some good information given to the people to help them understand what universal health care is, so that we can demand this necessary coverage as a nation. Why do we continue to pay for a world police force while our allies can afford to have health care for their people? Why do we continue to spend our tax dollars on building up Afghanistan and other places while our own people are denied a health care system?

I'm tired of being told that the most powerful country in the history of the planet cannot afford a decent social safety net for its people. It is wrong, and it must be fixed.

[rwsanders]

10. Not making excuses for the system (I think it borders on eugenics), but there are clinics...

Such as Victory Health Partners in Mobile, AL that will help. My wife worked at this particular clinic and the MD has extensive connections in the community and will try to get help. If there is any way to pass this information to her, please do.
Most communities have something similar.

[LWolf]

11. I would like to know

how many people in the U.S. pay as much or more for their premiums as they do for their rent or mortgage, and still have deductibles and copays on top of that.

[City Lights]

12. Me too!

it and start over.

[WillyT]

13. Agreed !!! - K & R !!!

[jazzimov]

14. This is truly sad....

A woman has an illness that no insurance company will cover and she won't make it till exchanges are set up, nor does she have the money to buy insurance from the pre-existing condition pool.

Our Red State Gov pulled funding for people who don't earn enough money or can't get insurance.

Under the "old" system, she would have had even less hope. Under the new system, hope is on the way, but not soon enough.

These are the true victims. Look on their faces.

[just1voice]

15. Too bad cause univeral/single payer is "off the table"

We must all suffer, except for those on the "sales team" that love kitty cat pictures, cartoons and other various distractions. The U.S. is a country with torture camps, corrupt "too big to prosecute" banks and a propaganda network run by 6 big media companies that would love for people to believe that "red state tea baggers" are to blame for everything.

[kairos12]

17. In keeping with your reply...

I read recently that six banks now own 63% worth of the country's GDP. In 1995 it was 16%. Oligarchs rule for sure.

[Comrade Grumpy]

16. Seriously. Fuck all those who are profiting from illness. That ain't right.

Some things just should not be profit-driven.

[Maven]

18. good thing we're now mandated to use it, with no publicly administered, profit neutral alternative

[woo me with science]

19. kick