Posted on 03/17/2011 7:49:24 PM PDT by Eva
The future tragedies of government health care will include today's many warnings about how it operates in practice. The subsidize-mandate-over regulate insurance model is imploding in Massachusetts. Then there's Washington state, where a government board may decide that modern medicine is too expensive for kids with diabetes.
Seriously. In 2006, Washington created a board to scrutinize the cost-effectiveness of various surgeries and treatments, known as the Health Technology Assessment program. At a hearing today, the panel will debate glucose monitoring for diabetic children under 18. In other words, the board is targeting the fundamental standard of diabetes care that has been the established medical consensus for at least three decades.
This state issue deserves far more scrutiny, if only because ObamaCare and the stimulus devoted billions of dollars to comparative effectiveness research. As President Obama has so often put it, the idea is to pit Treatment X against Treatment Y and find out "what works and what doesn't." In theory, it sounds great. But the Health Technology Assessment is an example of how comparative effectiveness will work in the real world, as the political system tries to find ways to restrict or limit treatment to control entitlement spending.
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Simplification is sometimes necessary because the body is so complicated.
Did you read the article. It explains that WA state has already set up it’s own form of the Obamacare death panels and one of the first acts that they are considering is to deny coverage of home monitoring of diabetes for adolescents on Medicaid and families of some government workers, probably the SEIU contract workers in day care and home health aids.
You missed the part that people like my husband just keep on losing weight on the Atkins diet, looking purely anorexic.
Why is this on your home page? At the top?
There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.
I’ve been type1 for 40 years now.When I was 9 there was not gluclose monitoring at home that diidn’t come along until I was about 25-26yo.THis is not good at all.I test about 8 times a day now with my pump.It would be dangerous to use the pump without being able to do that.THis scares me to death are they going to kill me because I cost too much?
It depends.Yes a coma caused by either can be days in ICU...that is if hey allow you to be treated.If they think it is too expensive perhaps a DNR would be used instead?
It depends.Yes a coma caused by either can be days in ICU...that is if they allow you to be treated.If they think it is too expensive perhaps a DNR would be used instead?
For now, it’s just in WA State, but if Obamacare becomes law, the answer to that is yes, they will try to kill you if you cost more than they deem you to be worth, unless you are a member of a favored minority, which has been traditionally under-served by health care, because of the oppression of the White western capitalist system.
YOu are very wrong about type 1.Yes following a diet is crucial but what you have siad is incoorect with type 1.It is a very delicate balance between activity and insulin.I know I’;ve been doing it for 40 years.
I do understand that. It is just that I was gestationaly diabetic seventeen years ago, and I am pre-diabetic now. It is a battle that can never quit.
Thank you for your encouragement.
Exactly.A type one needs carbs but not excessive carbs.
It is high BG cause thsoe problems not insulin.
I thought our Democrats in Olympia keep saying it is Republicans that want to hurt children.
I guess this doesn’t count, huh?
I’m not sure who the Republicans in WA state are anymore, at least not the Republicans with core conservative values.
Did you read that paragraph that MarMena has posted at the top of her home page? I guess I’ve been reported several times over.
“There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.”
Normally we don’t see mothers who are a gestational diabetic as having an increased risk for Type II. However, the same can not be said for the offspring.
You are correct, it is a battle that can never quit and if you never quit you will be victorious.
Good luck.
This is soooo creepy!
Are you spying on this Forum?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2689777/posts?page=51#51
“No swimming on the west coast for the next 20,000 years.
Forget those Hawaii vacations too. Thank God Obama got his in before this happened.”
And an Ozombie lover too!!!
Let’s see. I live in Washington state and have a son who developed juvenile diabetes at age 2. I was pinged to this post because of living in Washington. What do you think your problem is this evening?
Hope those meds work out for you ok.
Because of people like you who apparently never saw it or forgot it.
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