Ever since my first day on OS, I have been trying to warn people about the possible consequences and potential results of what was going to happen when our government, and the blind lemmings who follow politics, decided to try to reform insurance without first attempting to improve the actual medical care that we receive.
http://open.salon.com/blog/placebostudman/2009/10/28/your_stuff_is_not_more_important_than_my_life
And, in fact, at least one other person has tried to do the same thing.
And, now the results of this whole economic-recovery-through-health-insurance reform debate is starting to come to fruition.
And some of us, at least the two of us who contributed to the posts above, are sitting back, toasting each other, and laughing our asses off, trying not to scream at the top of our lungs, with megaphones
WE TRIED TO TELL YOU PEOPLE! BUT NOBODY LISTENED!
Well, okay, there I said it...
God, it's good to be right...MUWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA......
(and thank you to the contribution from MrsRaptor, for granting me permission to cross link her post and her blog)
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Well, yeah...
Deborah-
No, actually, we'll be hearing a lot of "you ARE insured, and probably wealthy, therefore you are the devil and your opinion and perspective doesn't count"
To which I have always responded, "well, yes, but all the money in the world hasn't managed to prevent me from being terminally ill"
The sad truth is, the majority, even the greater majority of people aren't going to see any significant difference in health care pre and post reform. Those of us with chronic or critical care needs, even when we have insurance, are going to be getting the same level of care that we have always received, and, quite frankly, that scares the shit out of me.
Unfortunately, most people, who only ever have to worry about a broken bone or a sprained joint, hair loss, ED, or getting fat, just don't give a rat's ass about people who are less fortunate than them.
No celebrating here, my comments were meant as sarcasm. Sorry, I thought that was pretty clear. I'm actually in mourning for all of the sick and dying kids who are suffering while our government, and the people who blindly follow them, are all scrambling around looking for shreds of ink and paper.
And if that isn't a sad state of affairs, then people really are scrooges
Rated.
I'm starting to think Humanity are all alcoholics, because we've adopted the AA definition of insanity...
"doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results"
With unemployment at 10% (average) where in hell are the “constituents” going to get all this money to give to the already obscenely rich insurance companies?
Oh, wait! Here's the answer! We could all ask for individual loans from China. At least we wouldn't be borrowing it to fund bullshit wars.
For starters... we can require the FDA to actually verify the research done on new drugs by the drug companies. The FDA has merely been reading the research from the drug companies for more than 20 years... and in that time we have had an ever increasing number of drugs pulled from the market because "oh gee... we made a mistake and this stuff will kill ya instead of treat ya ailment".
Second... PROHIBIT drug companies from advertising their wares on television, radio, billboards, newspapers, magazines, etc... They spend billions on advertising for unnecessary products (witness the millions spent in the last 6 months on prime time advertising for medication for "thin eyelashes"... "thin eyelashes" is NOT a medical condition to start with)
Those two things ALONE would save a minimum of 106,000 lives a year.
I believe MrsRaptor has done a post detailing her and my idea of REAL health care reform that should have been tackled before insurance reform was tackled.
Sadly, the things that President Obama has done by Executive Order that would cover quite a bit of real health reform were done mostly under the radar, and incredibly not covered by MSM.
But, to review....
1) Increase funding to the FDA and strengthen the oversight of the approval process of drugs coming out of BigPharma
2) Abolish BigPharma and put any and all medical R&D under the control of the NIH/NCI who really are the ones who do the majority of the research into real cures and effective treatments of serious ailments and disabilities
3) Break the monopoly that BigPharma has on the production and development of alternative treatment options, simply so there ARE alternative treatment options beyond those currently available
4) forbid BigPharma from interfering in the research that comes out of the NIH/NCI and university research programs, so the treatments that are made become available faster to those who need them most
These are just a few things that needed to be done before *I* will be comfortable with insurance reform. What does it matter if we're paying $500/year, or $5,000 per year for the warrantee (insurance) when the warrantee is covering a lemon (medicine and technology)
There is a prohibition on advertising of cigarettes on tv and other media, but marijuana is completely illlegal. I say, legalize marijuana and allow the tobacco companies to regulate and tax pot, the same way alcohol and tobacco is.
You can OD from alcohol and tobacco, OxyContin and the other pain killers, you can't OD on marijuana.
Am I the only one who sees something wrong with that picture?
(Also, I'm not sure if I agree on the FDA; what you suggest is one way to fix things. I think naving the FDA enforce detailed labeling and getting it out of the approval loop entirely might be another. I understand the motivation for wanting to get approval out of the commercial area, but I also think they hold up things that people might willingly try. This is a complex ethical area. I think I see wanting to take an unapproved drug as a victimless crime, though you're welcome to try to convince me otherwise.)
Actually, I agree, taking an unapproved drug is a victimless crime (or at least the victim is willing to accept the consequences), but that does fall under #3 of my proposal of giving various options to patients
As for which comes first, it's a chicken and egg thing, really. Ideally they should be done on parallel tracts, but since the government insists on prioritizing everything, they had to choose which to do "first". Of course, the problem with that is that the government has ALWAYS prioritized cost over quality, so we are in a constant battle to keep prices reasonable while paying for the same, often dangerous, poisonous crap, that often times does more harm than good
None of those events should surprise anyone, or need predicting.
They do a pretty damn good job of screwing the sick and elderly too when they focus on money rather than medicine and technology. All the money in the world does not make one impervious to cancer, and once you develop cancer, you are just about as likely to die from the side effects of the treatment as you are from the cancer itself.
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The point of the government being in charge of our utilities, police, fire, water, etc, is so that they ARENT used under a profitable model. The government is not *supposed* to make a profit from its citizens suffering. (I know, I know, it does, but intent and follow through are 2 different things)
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