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I don't think I go one day without reading or hearing about someone facing medical issues, and not having adequate health insurance. Cancer patients who can't afford their treatment, coverage denied for people with insurance, uninsured kids, and people who are working hard to support their families, and still don't have health insurance.
Just the other day on my Women 4 Hope blog...I had a young man comment about being told he had sleep apnea, and that he needed a special device to help him breath at night or he could die. Oddly, his insurance company won't cover the cost of this piece of equipment. How can that be? This young man has resourcefully started a blog in hopes to find a used machine, or raise enough money to purchase a new one.
So, how is it...That we are the richest country in the world, but we can't afford to make sure our own citizens have quality affordable health insurance? This is actually a question I intend to pose to the presidential candidates at the10 Questions project, later this weekend (I'll post the video here in comments, once I have it ready).
It's beginning to appear that...Only the wealthy, and most poverty stricken people in this country are guaranteed health care. If you are not at one extreme or the other, your life could very well be on the line. That just doesn't seem right? Yet, it is the reality for many people.
I didn't see the movie SICKO, but I have heard Michael Moore speak of his belief that the insurance companies (especialy HMOs), are the main problem in this healthcare crisis we are facing. And I agree. Of course insurance companies need to be profitable, but over the last 20 years or so, they have really began a systematic pillaging of the American people. HMOs are said to be "managed healthcare", but unfortunately the only thing they are doing a good job at managing, is their shareholders money.
These insurance companies have no vested interest in the actual health of the customers they "serve" (I use that word lightly), and actually make their own rules, while having no accountability at all. At the very least, HMOs should change their name to reflect what they really are...PMHDs (Profit Making Health Dictators).
Here in American we have private insurance companies. We have HMO’s. We have Medicare and Medicaid. If you have a good job, or over the age of 65 (I think it’s 65 now but I could be mistaken… I mean they keep raising it an all…) or completely poor and nearly on the streets, then you qualify for one of the following. However, if you have a job that pays shit and don’t give you proper benefits, or work off the books, or your company doesn’t provide heath coverage or you have pre-existing conditions that aren’t covered or one of the other number of loopholes that these companies have then, well, you are pretty much S.O.L . That’s scary. -- read full post at Define Your World
And, with the seriousness of eating disorders among our young girls, this post was particularly disturbing...
One of the most pivotal moments in my eating disorder happened when I sought treatment in December 2003. It was the first time I actually believed I would die from my illness and knew I needed full-time professional help. I needed inpatient treatment.
It should have been a turning point for the better. Instead, my eating disorder got much worse. I never received the help I needed.
It wasn’t because I backed out at the last minute. I wasn’t resisting treatment at my family’s insistence, either. I simply couldn’t afford treatment when my insurance denied me coverage.
Here’s what happened. -- read full post from Disordered Times
Here is an example of how the controversy over the SCHIP program, is hitting home for one California mother. And, this is a story being echoed across the country...
I go through the state program for my daughter’s health insurance. Here in California it is called Healthy Families. Being self employed I have no insurance for myself, so given the fact that my income isn’t that much (yet x;) ) I qualify for Healthy Families for my daughter.
So with all this hub bub about children’s insurance in the news I didn’t realize it was
