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- Shady14, on 09/28/2009, -3/+24Well, Duh. If Blue Cross Blue Shield had to pay for these people's bills, then their margin would be lowered. How else would you expect them to maintain a revenue of over 320 million a year? This is what capitalism is about folks!
/s, obviously.
Breaks my heart every time I see something like this. This is a choice she gladly makes for her kids, but it is not something anyone in this country should be forced to make. - CanNurse, on 09/28/2009, -5/+25Doubt if any anti-Health Care Reform people are reading this, or watching the video. But if so, as a Canadian I want to say, this would NEVER and could NEVER happen in Canada. The fact that this is happening to your fellow-Americans is both shocking and completely unnecessary! Get the facts! We are all grateful & happy in Canada to have the free healthcare that we do. Everyone shares the cost, via our taxes, and everyone beneifts - every single person is covered completely!
- AngryDeuce, on 09/28/2009, -2/+21But OMG, we can't have socialism! Not in the good ol' U.S.A.!!
Gimme a ***** break. Health Care, like police, fire, and national security, is a social service, and should be treated like one. The profiteers will argue and lobby until they're blue in the face, but a change is coming.
Anyone that owns stock in a health insurance company, might I suggest selling your shares? Hopefully, they'll soon be worth absolute *****.
***** the insurance companies...crooks and thieves, every one of them. - inactive, on 09/28/2009, -3/+19What the ***** is wrong with you people who stand with the insurance lobbies against your country and its citizens?
Stick your socialism, death panel ***** up your ignorant right wing, republican party, conservative, fundamentalist ‘c’hristain asses.
It ain't socialism you god damn ideologically infected morons.
Its resource management and giving a ***** about others.
The Right…just natural born *****.
I am sick and damn tired of their lies and ignorance. Just pass it, shove it down their thoughts and a few years from now they’ll have a hissy fit if you try and take it away from them and they will claim the invented it. - ChuckDees, on 09/28/2009, -2/+17Charity or get three jobs. That is the GOP answer.
They view people in this situation as being the blame.
They should have prepared and worked harder then they could avoid this.
When health insurance companies only real concern is the shareholder and the stock price.
Then their actual customer is a distant second in their list of priorities.
There is actually no reason for the parasitic wall street to be involved in this process.
I wonder if the GOP would go for 100% private insurance for all citizens, BUT it will be illegal for the private insurance to be for profit. I doubt they would agree with that. - Halbermunken, on 09/28/2009, -1/+12Without reform, health insurance rates to nearly double in 11 years
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/08/22/insurance-r ...
U.S. healthcare expensive, inefficient: report
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1 ...
Study: Health Insurers Are Near-Monopolies
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0418-09.ht ... - nllx, on 09/29/2009, -0/+6That video made me so sad :(
They must have strong will to be optimistic with everything they're going through. - Diefree, on 09/29/2009, -0/+5I'll remember not to feel sorry for you when you're insurance company kicks you off for getting sick.
- Frostek, on 09/29/2009, -0/+4Let's hope it's not withdrawn for some arbitrary reason and your safety net is suddenly gone... /s
- akash8m, on 09/29/2009, -0/+4I used to hear such news from third-world countries definitely not from the US. Very sad.
- VCubed, on 09/29/2009, -2/+5I hope it makes you put your senators and representative on speed-dial, and share their phone #s w/your friends/family, and push to make real change happen, too!
- Taiyoryu, on 09/29/2009, -0/+3Typical in-group-out-group mentality
- Wade, on 09/29/2009, -0/+1Armchair America: Rise!
- chewyrunt, on 09/29/2009, -0/+1I agree with you completely. My intent was neither to defend BC/BS nor to cast aspersions on the patient, but just to add a little bit more context to an article that doesn't leave much room for debate. I'm pretty surprised (and heartened) not to have been downvoted into oblivion for the attempt...
- bbkingadrock, on 09/29/2009, -0/+1Reminds me of the story of Dancer in the Dark, an excellent film.
- LacY, on 09/29/2009, -0/+1I've never been blind, but it seems to me that the difference between being able to see light/dark and being totally in the dark is huge, and worth saving if at all possible. I'm sure if you offered a totally blind person the ability to see light/dark, they'd snap it up in a heartbeat, no matter what the cost.
- chewyrunt, on 09/29/2009, -1/+21) "The injections that might help cost $380 after insurance, and she needs one every six weeks."
This is a very expensive condition to treat (typically requiring craniofacial surgery among other things), but I'm not aware of any medications that can prevent or delay blindness.
The phrase 'might help' suggets that the drugs are experimental and not (yet) approved for Stickler's; I'm guessing this is the basis of their denial.
2) "Mom goes blind so her daughters can see"
The headline makes it sound like she's giving up being a sighted person, but she is already profoundly blind; the article says she can only detect light/dark. - KenSPT, on 09/29/2009, -9/+1I have health coverage, so quite frankly I don't give a ***** about anyone who doesn't.
I'm taken care of, my family is taken care of, nothing else matters.
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