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Diana Brantner
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, November 06, 2004 - 3:30 pm: | 
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I
have metastatic breast cancer, most of the bones in my body. I filed
for ss disability, was approved within 6 weeks. But I can't believe
they are waiting 5 months before I can get a check. (waiting period)
And I'll be eligible for Medicaid in 2 years! One doctor gave my 6
months! I'll be lucky to be alive in 2 years! How can they treat the
terminal patient this way? |
Paul McChesney (Admin)
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Username: Admin
Post Number: 889
Registered: 5-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, November 14, 2004 - 6:12 pm: |
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That sounds accurate. I don't defend the law.
I
was so upset about health care coverage for my clients - and me - that
held my nose and voted for Bill Clinton the first time; I thought he
would give us universal health care coverage. In Canada, everyone has
Medicare. Any Canadian or citizen of a Western European country should
NEVER give up her citizenship to become a US citizen. I hate to say
that I have to pass out such advice.
Anyone who imagines that
their house and bank accounts and college savings accounts are safe
from one or two or four $250,000 hospital bills because she has private
insurance is mistaken. If you get laid off or fired or get too sick to
work in just the wrong order and the 18 months or so of COBRA run out
or if you can't scrape up one of the COBRA premiums, zip, its all gone
and you are living in a carboard box. Unless you are a Canadian, or
Frenchman, or Englisman, or Dane, or Spaniard, or Austrailian, or
German in which case you have none of that to worry about. Each of whom
pays much less per capita for health insurance and medications than we
do.
Any U.S. citizen who is reading this who is not a veteran
with a service connected impairment who thinks he is safe from this
happening to him because of some set of insurance he has from work or
has purchased, I hereby bet $200 that I can come up with a sequence of
happenstances that will put you in the cardboard box. Email me a
description of your insurance. You might as well have your checkbook
ready.
I invite anyone who is reading this to pick pu their
pen and write their Congressman and Senators a letter explaining that
you will not vote for them until we have such a system here. |
Anonymous
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, May 15, 2005 - 12:55 am: |
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What is WRONG with the AMERICAN people that they don't seem to care about healthcare issues?
The best healthcare system in the world? BULLCRAP - they must not have HMO's or no insurance.
Its crazy. |
Paul McChesney (Admin)
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 1202
Registered: 5-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 4:15 pm: |
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Amen.
Did you vote for anybody that takes money from the people that profit
from the present system? Bet you did. Don't do it again, please.
(Message edited by admin on May 29, 2005) |
Paul McChesney (Admin)
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Username: Admin
Post Number: 1430
Registered: 5-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, September 24, 2005 - 5:41 am: |
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The Social Security Administration needs to perform more disability reviews.
http://archive.gao.gov/t2pbat4/151030.pdf
Not
exactly hot off the presses, but interesting. At the time of the
report, in 1994, the SSA was getting back $6 for every $1 invested in
reviewing people who are presently drawing benefits, but was still
underfunding them, and, I think, still is, and not really looking at
each recipient.
All things considered, I am in favor of a
vigorous but fair review process. As Ms. Ross points out, a perception
of the legitimacy of the system is something deserving claimants need.
Won't a system without such reviews inevitably accumulate an increasing
number of people who are getting benefits and who are not disabled? Who
benefits from the lack of such a system, if fairly administered? A
friend of mine has always argued that the world is run by conspirators;
I hold that it is run by incompetents. This supports my position, I
think. |
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