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The poor always have had medical care with medicaid. I am saying the government had tons of programs to take care of the poor so why take over everybody's health care when we don't want then interfering with us and our doctors? Talk about controlling.
1. They're not taking over everyone's health care. If they did, it would look more like the UK's NHS.
2. Millions of people make too much to qualify for Medicaid but don't have insurance through their employers and can't afford to purchase it by dealing directly with the insurance company.
And ACA will tell your doctor not to treat you if they deem you are not going to live anyway or you reach a certain age where you are just too old and need to go home to die. This is why doctors hate it. They can't practice medicine the way they want to.
Sorry for the language but this is one of the stupidest statements I've seen in all the threads pertaining to this issue.
The poor always have had medical care with medicaid. I am saying the government had tons of programs to take care of the poor so why take over everybody's health care when we don't want then interfering with us and our doctors? Talk about controlling.
When I lived in the US, we had to drop our insurance because it cost double our rent, and we just couldn't afford it any more. Right after that, my husband was in a bad car accident. The hospital bill was almost a quarter million dollars. You mean Medicaid would have paid for it? Damn, why didn't anybody TELL us?
We have already seen Sebilius deny a little girl a lung transplant and Harry Reid say why would he help a child with cancer when so many other people need help.
Fortunattly the little girl had others come to her aid and she got the transplant and is home now. Such compassionate people in the Dem party who want this law.
My MIL developed breast cancer and was dropped from her insurance after one treatment. They dug deep and claimed she neglected to mention that she had a period of depression. Yes, she was depressed after her husband died. Who wouldn't be? They used that to deny treatment. She fought that insurance company until her cancer killed her.
Are you telling me Medicaid would have paid for her and she'd still be alive?
We have already seen Sebilius deny a little girl a lung transplant and Harry Reid say why would he help a child with cancer when so many other people need help.
Fortunattly the little girl had others come to her aid and she got the transplant and is home now. Such compassionate people in the Dem party who want this law.
You're taking both of those incidents out of context. Are you doing that to insult us because you think the rest of us are too stupid to know it, or do you not actually know the context of those two incidents?
When I lived in the US, we had to drop our insurance because it cost double our rent, and we just couldn't afford it any more. Right after that, my husband was in a bad car accident. The hospital bill was almost a quarter million dollars. You mean Medicaid would have paid for it? Damn, why didn't anybody TELL us?
It would have if you had no home or any material wealth. I see you got through it and still have your computer.
You're taking both of those incidents out of context. Are you doing that to insult us because you think the rest of us are too stupid to know it, or do you not actually know the context of those two incidents?
But the Right wingers would call that DEATH PANELS!
Oh the spin.
NO, what you fail to understand, like always, is that the difference between what this person's mother did, and being stuck on a waiting list until you die, is that she CHOSE to refuse medical treatment.
Yes, both stories were reported, within their proper context, in the mainstream, legitimate press. Perhaps you missed it.
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