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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: John Koligman who wrote (7610)	7/18/2009 7:12:18 AM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (2) of 42652

the article completely skips over legislation by states mandating medical coverage for certain non life threatening procedures.. in ma. a women can try to get artificial insemination unlimited times and be fully covered by health insurance. Often these are women who wait until later in life to try to have a baby and many end up with numerous embryo. This results in additional medical coverage for abortion of selected embryo in hopes of these women going full term. A number of these women will not go full term and deliver premature causing extensive critical care for their babies. These medical bills can run into the millions for premature birth difficulties , keeping babies in hospitals until their lungs and rest of their system develops to the point they can live on their own. We have birth control, viagra etc mandated for coverage in medical plans. On the other hand medicare drop shingles from payment and its now included in drug coverage. Sure shingles does not threaten life however it can leave you blind in some cases and is quite painful. drug price $212., if you wish to have the vaccine, i wonder how many elderly can afford to pay $212. out of pocket? What would the cost be if medicare covered it? i am sure the price of the drug would be a lot less than the price charged. Medicare is also dropping other blood testing coverage which may impact your health. When we look at a cancer drug that will extend five months of life most of these people are encouraged to take the drug. It is the process in treating cancer.. Usually one drug works while for some unknown reason another cocktail of drugs will not. The cancer patient will move from one drug to another until one drug or combination of drugs show results. I wonder in the past years how many patient lives were saved because their lives were extended five more months and a new drug came on the market that put them in remission? perhaps what health care really needs is take the states out of the health care programs. Stop the local legislators from adding to health care program's costs. Next provide national care insurance, i understand rates vary greatly from state to state for coverage because depending on a state these companies may have different costs. It doesn't make sense why some places are three times the cost for the same care? i would think a panel should be able to investigate the variances and determine if other places do not provide sufficient care or its the extreme of care? in controlling health care costs we should review how items over the years have been added to our health care programs that may not really be health care , rather are social programs.

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