Posted on 05/28/2019 9:22:39 PM PDT by lowbridge
A California kidney patient writes to warn that AB 290 could make kidney dialysis more difficult to access for thousands of patients that obtain charitable assistance to help pay for their care. From the column by Duc Dang:
I depend on a charitable financial grant from the nonprofit American Kidney Fund to help pay for my daily at-home dialysis. Without the grant, I cannot afford the treatment. Without the treatment, I will die. Assembly Bill 290, supported by California’s health insurance companies, will force AKF to cease operating its program in California, hurting me and the more than 3,700 Californians who rely on its financial assistance.
How?
This is because provisions in AB 290 conflict with the strict federal guidelines under which AKF operates and, rather than risk its operations nationwide, AKF will simply stop offering assistance in California.
The bill has already passed the assembly and is heading for the Senate, which approved a nearly identical bill last year, eventually vetoed by Jerry Brown.
If the bill becomes law, it would force Dang onto Medicare, which doesn’t provide an equivalent benefit:
By forcing dialysis patients on to government-funded health care plans, AB 290 will threaten the long-term viability of dialysis clinics since government reimbursements don’t cover the cost of care. If dialysis clinics are forced to cut back services or close because they can’t cover their costs, patients will end up in emergency rooms where care is up to eight times more expensive. The health care system as a whole, and taxpayers, will bear the burden of higher costs.
(Excerpt) Read more at lifenews.com ...
That ain’t right...
The first dialysis clinic opened in 1962. The access was very limited and citizen committees determined who went on, and who would not, ultimately who lived or died. The modern world has it so easy, relatively. Before this development, kidney failure was universally a death sentence
more evidence that Democrats want only to kill people however they can.
I think the Nazis had a similar philosophy.
Democrats care so much about you.
Trying to overwhelm a healtcare system to the point of collapse so they (democrats) can gain ultimate control and power is being kind and compassionate to people(/s).
Keep voting democrat.
Death panels are coming.
Death panels are coming.
I seem to recall a young lady making that very point a few years back.
...And they ridiculed Governor Palin for saying the Democrat’s Health Care Plan would bring Death Panels.
Yet they have billions to spend on a bullet train and millions of invaders!
It’s called Euthanasia. Democrats have been killing babies, now they want the elderly and crippled to die next. This is just going to get worse
Just another step for a properly hygenic society. Nothing to see here.
Who the heck gets daily dialysis?
My FIL had it 2-3 times a week for about 10 years after his kidneys were declared no longer working. And it wasn’t at home either, he went to the center.
I know I can’t afford certain things to save my life, do I have a moral claim on any of you or society to pick up my bill?
I have house payments and car payments too. And groceries and my utility bills, i die without food and power and water. You can send your money to ....
Since we are on a kidney thread anyone know how to keep stage 2f renal cysts from going to stage III?
http://m.pkdclinic.org/chinese-herbs/
Basically their prior page said for stage 2 certain chinese herbs can help.
Thanks for the info. Chinese herbs scare me due to liver damage they can cause but the hot compress is interesting. Have a lot of research to do. Idiot radiologist didn’t even put size of cyst. Just stage IIf
Why do you think they took hold of medical care for millions of people? because they love the people? NO! because they want to control life and death decisions! They want to force you to pay for aids care, euthanasia, abortion and sex “change” operations while denying care to elderly people who can’t send campaign contributions and don’t generally vote.
Same with my grandpa.
I wish the report presented more evidence.
What is missing is the evidence demontrated from with the Assembly bill - the pertinent legal text, with a demonstration of how the text wil have the effects the author claims.
I read the bill and tried to follow it.
At only one point did a part of the text stand out, as on topic with this report:
“A chronic dialysis clinic that does not meet the definition of an LDO shall not be considered financially interested for purposes of this section.”
But, we have no statement from the authors if it is this part of the bill, or some other parts, from which they make their claims about the harm from the bill. Maybe they are right. But we actually don’t have it explained, from the bill itself.
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