Posted on 11/28/2016 4:53:59 AM PST by simpson96
“Once the feds hand out a sugary piece of cradle-to-grave entitlement candy, it’s almost impossible to snatch it back.”
This is why we need to pass an amendment so that it would require a 2/3 majority to pass any law that would result in money flowing from the government treasury to individual citizens (besides tax refunds).
DEA shortage of pain meds
http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/4/13166594/dea-opioid-epidemic-manufacturer-2017-substance-
New DEA rules place more restrictions on popular painkillers
http://www.roanoke.com/news/virginia/new-dea-rules-place-more-restrictions- on-popular-painkillers/
Pain Management
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2016/1/5/the-cdc-and-profit-driven- drug-testing
You know what federal employees get? Choice. Lots and LOTS of choice. Check it out...
https://www.opm.gov/healthcare-insurance/healthcare/
There are a lot of people with chronic incurable health conditions, there has to be an insurance pool for them. We should all be able to shop for the best policy regardless of state lines. And people who don’t have the luxury on their given policies to add/pay for dental, vision, hearing to it as separate policies if they want them.
Medicare and Tricare Life (MILITARY-Retired overy 65) and have both there Regs and Mandates that have to be followed to the letter. I need a upper Endo Scope every 2 yrs, they just shoved it off to every 3 yrs, Barrett’s Esophagus is a per-cancer that has to be monitored on a regular basis.
We pay for glasses, hearing aids, dental out of our own pockets. As these are not covered items. Hubby goes for a partial cornea transplant in Dec, that will mean several Cornea Doc trips and new glasses, even if we recycle his old frames it’s still close to $400 for new lenses, and I’m facing new glasses and mine will be $500 as I need special lenses. Hearing aids just for me were $3400 that does not include the very expensive batteries that might last 3-4 days each, times 2. Cheap ones last even fewer days.
That Navy Pension earned over 50 yrs ago and SS from second job after 20 yrs in the Navy, doesn’t go very far these days. When DUMBO took office our investments went to crap.
There is a $ cap on Medicaid. Just as there is on VA care.
Tennessee has TennCare, forerunner of Romneycare, they have downsized who they cover 4 times now.
Most working low wage Citizens or those on SS usually don’t qualify. Only those making the lowest $ do, or no $ welfare types.
Twenty Freaking Six. When I was 26 I had already flown two tours in Vietnam. Hard to grasp 26-year-old “children.”
Surely if a kid with cancer doesn’t have health insurance, there is somewhere to go for treatment, no?
Thanks for your service. I truly appreciate you but your attitude is irrelevant to the conversation.
Try about 133 MILLION, and I think that is a low ball #. As it does not include those with issues like Barrett’s Esophagus which is a per-cancer, caused by over use of PPI’s..like Nexium which was meant to be a 2 week ulcer prevention drug, but turned out to be the best Reflux drug on the market, patent hasn’t run out yet for a generic. And Gastro’s leave patients on it to long as there is no other way to control the Reflux as many of it is Script drug related. Does it include those with Osteoarthritis it is a painful chronic disease and those drugs eat your GI track up as do the OTC crap like Advil or any other anti-inflammatory drug. Add in Osteoporosis...brittle bones, caused by script drugs. So the actual number they give is not accurate.
I have several friends with very painful incurable ICC bladder disease. https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000477.htm Only pain meds give them any relief.
Chronic health conditions
http://www.nationalhealthcouncil.org/sites/default/files/NHC_Files/Pdf_Files/AboutChronicDisease.pdf
I have a question about “coverage for preexisting conditions”...
If an insurer KNOWS that a customer has a preexisting condition that they must cover with insurance, can’t they just raise that person’s premium and deductible to cover the inevitable expense?? Sure, cover them, but raise the cost just as you would insure a car that’s very expensive or a home in a disaster prone area.
What’s the deal with this?
Yes, ST JUDE’s Children’s Hospital. It is totally free. They even take children from other countries FREE. It is one of the few orgs we donate to. I’ve watched it grow from a mid size research hospital to a huge one taking up a full block just in Memphis alone.
But that eliminates adults. And like with my Barrett’s that is a per-cancer that has to be monitored regularly with biopsies. I have 2 sets of cousin’s who inherited a Breast Cancer Gene, they all get gene tested young. And start Mammo’s much younger than the usual 40. 2 Aunts-(sisters) married 2 brothers, gene came down the MALE line very usual. BC is hit and miss but each girl will carry the gene and pass it to the next generation, they are on the GGrands side now.
Our best friend who died 2 yrs ago of a massive second heart attack, had 15 cancer surgeries of the bladder burning off the cancer growths. And in a male that is not easily done. There are no meds to prevent it only surgery to control it. He had Tricare Life and his wife BC/BS from her job she kept up after retiring. He was a Ret 20 yr Navy Chief who worked 20 yrs after Military but no pension for it.
You have barrett’s?
Doctor had to scrape some stuff off of esophagus 3 years ago and asked me if i heard of barretts. Didn’t say i had it but wanted me to go for another one after a year or two.
It’s three years now and i never went back. I should, huh?
How often do you get tested.
Breast cancer gene. They need to get moving on gene therapy.
I dont think the raising would still be nearly enough to cover certain pre existing conditions such as, well, what pre existing condition would cost a fortune or a long time without the person dying from it?
I float back and forth between the constitution not saying anything about the right to medical care to not wanting anyone with cancer, MS, etc. to have no avenue to get treated, as an adult.
Disagree.
I dont think the raising would still be nearly enough to cover certain pre existing conditions”
At some point, the cost of the coverage will approach the exact cost of the treatment, when it’s a 100 percent certainty.
It’s a free country. I’m the world’s number one authority of my own opinion. But then so are you.
Many employer plans cover full-time students until they're 23, even 25 years-old anyway. While I'm not necessarily an advocate for it, it's a small cost to get a much bigger gain. Insurance for most people in the 18-26 year-old range is relatively cheap; they're among the healthiest demographics, and most are easily insurable.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think the answer is no under Obamacare. I think they CAN raise the premium and the deductible to a point, but they are limited by Obama.
And if you don't have insurance and then you're diagnosed with say cancer, the insurance company has to take you and they can charge you say $1000/month but the treatment may be $10,000/month, and that's not fair to the insurance company or the other policy holders who inevitably have to pay more than they would otherwise.
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