Real People Denied Healthcare

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Real People Denied Healthcare

David Welch is an RN and a patient who was denied health insurance because of minor skin cancer on his nose. This story, of an upper middle class white male nurse, shows how virtually anyone can be denied healthcare, and further illustrates the need for a universal healthcare system such as AB 840 in California and HR 676 nationally.

This video was shot and produced by Colette Washington and edited by James Johnson at JJ Post.

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Specializes in Utilization Management.

Obviously something needs to be done, and quickly. Hopefully the lawmakers will understand that laws like this are not serving the people who elected them.

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Social services should be able to get this kid covered under some state program so it will not devestate the family. My own opinion is that we have to be careful what we ask for with universal health care. It is a nice idea but you realize that the taxpayer will pay for it. Taxpayers already complain about all the taxes we pay. Do I want 50% of my gross pay going for taxes? I don't.

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Specializes in ER.

If I had a settee, or knew what one was...

I think medical care is a commodity worth money, not a right. The minute we start giving away food and shelter for free, then we can talk about medical care.

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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/settee

i think it was an eye catching way to say get off our orifices

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Social services should be able to get this kid covered under some state program so it will not devestate the family. My own opinion is that we have to be careful what we ask for with universal health care. It is a nice idea but you realize that the taxpayer will pay for it. Taxpayers already complain about all the taxes we pay. Do I want 50% of my gross pay going for taxes? I don't.

except that a worker making 30,000 a year in Mass will pay 25% of his salary to an insurance company for health coverage. Universal coverage is cheaper for us all.....see http://www.pnhp.org/news/2007/april/national_system_woul.php

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If I had a settee, or knew what one was...

I think medical care is a commodity worth money, not a right. The minute we start giving away food and shelter for free, then we can talk about medical care.

Health care IS a moral right, and there are those out there that are proposing an amendment to make this right a legal one.
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If I had a settee, or knew what one was...

I think medical care is a commodity worth money, not a right. The minute we start giving away food and shelter for free, then we can talk about medical care.

I agree.

steph

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If I had a settee, or knew what one was...

I think medical care is a commodity worth money, not a right. The minute we start giving away food and shelter for free, then we can talk about medical care.

It's a couch, my friend.

The only trouble is that this little boy is basically getting a death sentence, or at least a sentence of disability, if he can't get treatment.

It is easy to talk commodities when it is someone else's child, I guess. With some people, unless it touches their own flesh or the fruit of their own loins, suffering does not register. :o

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It's a couch, my friend.

The only trouble is that this little boy is basically getting a death sentence, or at least a sentence of disability, if he can't get treatment.

It is easy to talk commodities when it is someone else's child, I guess. With some people, unless it touches their own flesh or the fruit of their own loins, suffering does not register. :o

:yeahthat: All it takes for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.

Start with the fact that business now spends a stunning $500 billion a year, or 4 percent of GDP, on health-care benefits. Let's say we shifted that cost to government - that's right, relieved business of it entirely - and, to make matters simple, combined it with other public funds to give citizens a voucher with which they could buy a private health plan.

To pay for this without boosting the deficit, we'd raise taxes by an identical amount - not on business, of course, but on taxpayers broadly, via various gas or carbon taxes that would have the salutary side effect of helping cure our energy and environmental woes.

Note that the total amount the country is spending on health care doesn't change under this scheme; we just shift the financing burden from business to the general population, via government. (To make the left happy, we can toss another 1 percent of GDP into the pot in new taxes to make sure the vouchers go to all today's uninsured as well. Presto, universal health coverage.)

What would business think of such an idea? Policy suggestions like this would ordinarily be dead on arrival, decried as a record $500 billion tax hike sure to sink the economy. But what if the business community rose as one to force politicians to get past such rhetoric - and publicly trumpeted the need for the new taxes?

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http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/27/magazines/fortune/miller_politics.fortune/index.htm

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If I had a settee, or knew what one was...

I think medical care is a commodity worth money, not a right. The minute we start giving away food and shelter for free, then we can talk about medical care.

I think that public opinion runs the other way.....

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/03/img/ruy032307.jpg

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What is the value of a healthy society?

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We are a country of smart folks; I can’t believe there is not solution out there. One of the better ones I have heard about was letting folks buy into a plan now used by federal workers. Would it be perfect no, but a group that large would have a lower buy in. It’s going to take more than one thing to fix – I think its going to take a creative approach, the delivery system is going to have to change as well. I lived for ten years with out insurance, paid as I went, yea even with cash in hand try to get seen its ridiculous!

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