Neil D Posted June 2, 2006 Posted June 2, 2006 Got this from Moveon.org- [:"green"] I think that people with health care sometimes think that this is just a problem for the uninsured, but that is absolutely not true. Even if you have health care and develop a serious illness (cancer, MS, etc.) while covered by your employer, you better be sure you love your current job. Because if you decide you want to change direction in your life, you will become all too familiar with the words "preexisting condition". You will find you most likely cannot get coverage from a new provider. This system traps us all, insured and uninsured. We need comprehensive, affordable health care so that all of us can have the freedom to live our lives the way we want to, doing what we love, not being trapped by the health care system. – Rebecca p. from Moose, Wyoming [/] You may be seeing this issue come around a bit more often.... Quote Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. George Bernard Shaw
Dr. Shane Posted June 2, 2006 Posted June 2, 2006 I think there is something we don't know. Either that or President Clinton was the greatest failure to ever enter the White House. President Clinton ran on the issue of universal health care. He was elected in 1992 with a Democrat-controlled House and Senate. His party controlled the entire federal government. In his state of the union address he held up a little medical card and said within one year all Americans would have one that would provide universial health care. It didn't happen. The Democrats failed to make it happen under President Clinton. Why? If they couldn't make it happen then, what has changed to make us believe they can make it happen now? Quote Pastoral Family Counselor... Find me at www.PostumCafe.com Author of Peculiar Christianity
cricket Posted June 2, 2006 Posted June 2, 2006 One solution toward providing affordable health care is to mandate seatbelt laws. The thing we don't know is that we can't have our [grease-laden fried chicken with a side of nachos] and eat it too! Quote
Members rudywoofs (Pam) Posted June 2, 2006 Members Posted June 2, 2006 For those of you interested in seeing what medical information the various insurance companies of the US and Canada have compiled on you, ask the Medical Information Bureau (MIB). The MIB is where a lot (if not most) insurers will look to verify if you have "pre-existing" conditions. If there is erroneous info on you, you can contest it... They are obligated to give you a free report on yourself (if requested) once a year. http://www.mib.com/html/request_your_record.html Quote Pam Meddle Not In the Affairs of Dragons; for You Are Crunchy and Taste Good with Ketchup. If we all sang the same note in the choir, there'd never be any harmony. Funny, isn't it, how we accept Grace for ourselves and demand justice for others?
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