[vaudine]

Hi--I have watched so many programs on the healthcare issue, can't remember which one showed the chart--it may even have been on Fox News. It may have been on Huckabee, or Beck. It was a chart made by one of Obama's advisors who will have a say in his health care, and as I said started at close to 0 for new births, went up steadily and then leveled off until it started down drastically at 55.

I take this to mean that premmies like my now 31 year old grandson who was 2 months early, with underdeveloped lungs and my 6 year old granddaughter who was a premmie who was underweight and came early because her mother developed a very rare blood ailment would be left to die. The grandson was hospitalized about a month, 2 weeks in neonatal intensive care hooked up to liquid oxygen. He is a wonderful, smart, productive, Christian young man with a wife and beautiful little girl. I just do not believe Obamacare would keep a baby like that alive in hospital for a month. He had billirubin and at one point a lung collapsed. I believe his bill even 31 years ago was around 50,000. His parents had no insurance and he was transported to a children's hospital which had research grants and after the parents paid on it for a couple of years, it was written off.Our six year old was in hosp 10 to 14 days and had to have expensive shots for several months, but her parents had ins.

God help us all.

vaudine

[altair]

I take this to mean that premmies like my now 31 year old grandson who was 2 months early ...

Coupled with the recent Barry Soetoro regarding the "carbon footprint" of babies I would guess that they are prime targets for "cost reduction" under Obamacare.

Thanks for telling us your story. It warms my heart to read stuff like that (that the children survived).