Things now possible after this SCOTUS upholds Health Care act...

[Daddy2mylilgirl]

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[DeepGreenEyes]

*image of angry rich man with health insurance

He's gonna add significantly to their high-risk pool.

 

[Scentofawoman]

I am so happy that this was upheld. I worked in a hospital for the last 11 years. 5 of them doing Discharge planning, 6 on 3rd party billing and reimbursement. All I will say is I know the system from when you get sick, to what the steps you take to get out, and how each step is paid. Fundamentally everyone needs to stop treating the "health" of a patient as a commodity and commerce, which is exactly what the Supreme Court did in order to fix the system.

It's not only patients, but Doctors too who have to change their minds. Ever told a Doctor in his face he could not perform heart surgery on a patient because that patent's Post Op care will not be covered by Medicare or Medicaid, let alone the patients' 3rd party ins? That is what nightmares are made of, not monsters in the closet.


Anyone who has ever worked in the medical field knows it's fucked up. There are just too many interest groups out there looking for their chunk of the pie. There has to be one line and everyone has to figure out how it will effect them and where to tow it.

 

[Netzach]

I am so happy that this was upheld. I worked in a hospital for the last 11 years. 5 of them doing Discharge planning, 6 on 3rd party billing and reimbursement. All I will say is I know the system from when you get sick, to what the steps you take to get out, and how each step is paid. Fundamentally everyone needs to stop treating the "health" of a patient as a commodity and commerce, which is exactly what the Supreme Court did in order to fix the system.

It's not only patients, but Doctors too who have to change their minds. Ever told a Doctor in his face he could not perform heart surgery on a patient because that patent's Post Op care will not be covered by Medicare or Medicaid, let alone the patients' 3rd party ins? That is what nightmares are made of, not monsters in the closet.


Anyone who has ever worked in the medical field knows it's fucked up. There are just too many interest groups out there looking for their chunk of the pie. There has to be one line and everyone has to figure out how it will effect them and where to tow it.

I think I actually feel worst off for MD's who actually give a shit and got into medicine to help people - because they find out that in fact, they're in high-end and high-pressure sales. The more I see the intersections on THAT side of things, the more I understand the ways in which I am being messed with by those interests which are not me and not my MD to the point where I can predict why he's saying what he's saying.

 

[missgiter]

I think I actually feel worst off for MD's who actually give a shit and got into medicine to help people - because they find out that in fact, they're in high-end and high-pressure sales. The more I see the intersections on THAT side of things, the more I understand the ways in which I am being messed with by those interests which are not me and not my MD to the point where I can predict why he's saying what he's saying.

So true. It's sad that when most people go into the medical field - it's to help people, to cure sickness and do what they can. The saddest part? It doesn't end up being that. Insurance red-tape, lawsuits etc. Healthcare is just a three-ring circus anymore. We need to get back to basics

HELPING PEOPLE HELP OTHERS! The world would be such a better place.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I drove a girlfriend to County General back in Feb, to get a lump in her breast checked out.

She's known about it for two years, and not done anything about it because she had no insurance but she was making that little bit too much money to qualify for medicaid. If it were malignant, what could she do? And if she did get a fulltime job that included insurance, it would become a "pre-existing condition."

After a year of no work, she qualifies for medicaid and was able to go do something about it. Yes, it's cancer. Since then it's been waiting... waiting for a followup appointment (five weeks) waiting for a second biopsy (four weeks, the two other lumps are benign) Waiting to meet the surgeon (three weeks) and waiting for a chance to get in for surgery (who the fuck knows?) but at least, there's a chance.

 

[satindesire]

Pigs fly.

People never again post BDSM personals on BDSM cafe or talk.

satin stops all gaming, forever.

HAH! Not bloody likely! My life-crippling addiction to gaming is far, FAR more reliable than SCOTUS.

 

[Scentofawoman]

I drove a girlfriend to County General back in Feb, to get a lump in her breast checked out.

She's known about it for two years, and not done anything about it because she had no insurance but she was making that little bit too much money to qualify for medicaid. If it were malignant, what could she do? And if she did get a fulltime job that included insurance, it would become a "pre-existing condition."

After a year of no work, she qualifies for medicaid and was able to go do something about it. Yes, it's cancer. Since then it's been waiting... waiting for a followup appointment (five weeks) waiting for a second biopsy (four weeks, the two other lumps are benign) Waiting to meet the surgeon (three weeks) and waiting for a chance to get in for surgery (who the fuck knows?) but at least, there's a chance.

I like the Preexisting clause for what it was theoretically suppose to do. But like everything it's been misused, maligned, and really just badley interpreted.
Of of course I have pages of opnions I won't bore you.

Stella, I have some tricks if you want to know then about how to get in faster.

 

[redslady]

Ah. Understood.

(I love you Canadian medical system...hug, hug, hug!)

Could not agree more. Scares me to think what could have happened to me without it.

 

[Licia]

We must fight back with the jaws of life, no doubt. All medical professionals who've entered into the field for the purpose of healing the sick and easing suffering understand this. A local, well educated doc has returned to hillbilly land just to rejoin the cause.

Without her spirit, many of the women here would have been doomed. She was the first to guess at my father's cardiac woes, and the first to hear my need for a DNC after miscarriage. She is the only doc who has ever physically hugged me, and her intervention secured birth control despite the hostile climate. The community begged her to stay, "At the very least, come back!"

The OBGYN has seen fit to practice in another building just steps away from a retirement home, and those real life examples are mere iceberg tip examples of why that practice receieves our business.

That office (formally full of men) was wise enough to listen to a woman who understands her limitations. They performed a tubal ligation against their better judgement, and (he) later told me it was the right procedure.

And yeah, I had to kick and scream to retain my right. The very day I was in the hospital to be induced I still had to fight off the naysayers. Grrr! I had to wait yet another day after nearly bleeding to death for the second time to have a second surgery.

Then they tried to keep me from going outside. Bah hah hah hah hah. I pretty much informed them that I was not in prision, I would listen to my body and in spite of all of their rules and regulations that I would exercise my right to sanity.

"Don't you belong in OB," a passerby asked.

"Mmm, I escaped," smirked through my lips.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I like the Preexisting clause for what it was theoretically suppose to do. But like everything it's been misused, maligned, and really just badley interpreted.
Of of course I have pages of opnions I won't bore you.

Stella, I have some tricks if you want to know then about how to get in faster.

She's going in this friday *huge sigh of relief*