The Tax Man Cometh

[moosmom]

Sorry

I also agree with Mary and everyone else here. I think that the Government has no business telling anyone what course of treatment they SHOULD have.

[Puckstop31]

Sorry

I also agree with Mary and everyone else here. I think that the Government has no business telling anyone what course of treatment they SHOULD have.

Kinda off topic, but I like where this is going.


Do you support the idea of a national health care plan funded and planned for by public money? For everybody?

[Laura's Babies]

Is won't stop with forcing chemo on people.

Prime example is myself and the crippling side effects on statin drugs I had but yet I would probably be forced (according to todays standards) to take them even though they were making me a cripple.

I also had a friend with asthma that was given an inhalant and was told to use it although it made her worse every time she did. I have told you about her before.. She spent a year of spending a week in the hospital, several weeks in a nursing home and be sent home for a week only to end up in the hospital and that cycle continued for about a year. She kept telling her doctor that inhaler was making her throat close up and he called her crazy and threatened to call her insurance and have them cancel her insurance for refusing the "standard coarse of treatment"... He even sent a psychiatrist in to see her trying to label her something to force her to use that inhaler. ONLY when she sent her daughter to the hospital and doctors office DEMANDING a copy of ALL her records, did that doctor back down.. She went in demanding those records for a law suite because they are killing her Mama! Anyway, fast forward 10 years and it turns out a LOT of people were having that side effect and the drug now has a warning.. WE Will NOT have a choice any longer. We will be at the mercy of any and all new drugs no matter how harmful they are to us.

The point here is we will be forced to take drugs that will kill or cripple a lot of people or we will be refused treatment for ANYTHING... or we will die waiting just to get in to see a doctor because it is no longer profitable to be a doctor..

Hell, that forcing drugs has already started... read this

April 28th
2009
5:57 PM
I have had Type 1 Diabetes for many years (54) without any complications of the disease - until I had a mild stroke. Which didn't affect me. Now my doctor makes me take Lipitor. From the very start of taking 10mg Lipitor per day, I got muscle cramps and leg twitches whilst in bed; muscle weaknesses; I even got Plantar Fasciitis and now I limp slightly in that foot. Before I took Lipitor I used to sleep like a baby. Lipitor has made me from a relatively healthy person despite having Diabetes to what feels like an old lady at aged 55. I know it is Lipitor as when I stop taking the drug all unpleasant side effects mentioned above cease. The trouble is my doctor won't give my Insulin without Lipitor and I need Insulin to live, of course. So I am forced to take Lipitor. I find that exercise such as a good long walk during the daytime helps; without it (eg in bad weather when I cannot get outside) the effects of Lipitor are much worse. My cholesterol readings and blood pressure are always good (even before the stroke) so why should I have to be almost crippled by by Lipitor?

http://www.medications.com/se/lipitor

That's what ahead folks.. The only question is when? 5 years, 10, 15, 20?

[Edwina's Secretary]

I have this problem with my insurance company. They want me to go into their program for people with breathing problems...because.....over five years ago...when I still smoked....I was prescribed a medication for URP. (Whih made me sicker.)

Since I quit smoking I no longer have the problem.

But the insurance company has a long memory...and they want to force me to accept a treatment I do not want and no longer need.

And if I do not accept it they will reduce my benefits.

Which is better....decisions made for profit or for health?

[Puckstop31]

I have this problem with my insurance company. They want me to go into their program for people with breathing problems...because.....over five years ago...when I still smoked....I was prescribed a medication for URP. (Whih made me sicker.)

Since I quit smoking I no longer have the problem.

But the insurance company has a long memory...and they want to force me to accept a treatment I do not want and no longer need.

And if I do not accept it they will reduce my benefits.

Which is better....decisions made for profit or for health?

For now, you can change your health plan if you like. And do you honestly think that in a government health plan, decisions won't be made on financial circumstances? If you think they won't.... Ask my wife about Canada's plan and her grandmother.