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cowboy_witch (cowboy_witch) wrote,
@ 2009-06-18 14:14:00

Really Important
Hey, don't think we need health care reform in this country? Read this:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-rescind17-2009jun17,0,3508020,full.story

and see if you don't change your mind.

I've already written my Senator urging him to support true health care reform, in the hopes that we can put an end to this sort of practice and get back to what health insurance is supposed to be about; giving us, the hard-working American people, the peace of mind in knowing that if something should happen to us, how we're going to pay for our care will be one thing we don't have to worry about.

My mother and grandmother have been dealing with serious, life-threatening conditions over the past two years; according to the above article, they could both lose their healthy insurance coverage. We cannot let this happen; if you haven't done so already, contact your representatives in Washington and tell them you want true health care reform.

It may not be much, but we need to do something.

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poetic_fangs
2009-06-18 07:22 pm UTC (link)

I'm not bein gpartisan here, but speaking as someone from a country which has had a decaying, rotten and insanely corrupt National Health System for many decades, please don't look upon it as a cure-all. Stories have been rampant here, for many, many years, of ridiculous queues for even the most basic of emergency services (critical hip transplants waiting for more than a decade, being among the least alarming). Recent media stories, about breast cancer medicine being denied to NHS patients, simply because of money, are only the tip of the iceberg, over here. It eats up a horrid amount of money, yet it never goes on the actual patients. Only 'administrators' and the like. Being someone who recently had to wait with my mother in the inappropriately-titled 'accident and emergency' department, for many, many hours before being seen and turned away with only the most perfunctory (and unhelpful) of advice for something which needed urgent treatment, this is not something I would ever advise lightly.

I'm not sure what the answer is, in either of our countries, but if your own goes down our road, the situation isn't going to improve, sadly.

Basically, be careful what you wish for and make sure you know what the specifics of 'reform' are.

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