No matter how you say Obamacare...

[one_voice]

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=379380072084699&set=a.123290884360287.13113.113544412001601&type=1&theater

[snacker]

1. This needs to go viral...

I don't have a facebook page, but I am sending it to everyone I know who does and asking them to post it on his/her page.

[one_voice]

2. Kick for the night crew.

[Dragonfli]

3. Funny thing is, my wife looked like that when the Ins Company said "let her die" in their own

special way by delaying her mastectomy for six months (after scheduled) even tho she was only supposed to be off the shrinking chemo for a specific period, to allow her to get a bit stronger for surgery. The Oncologist said this was quite common (except for the delay in care due to the insurance company shenanigans).

They saved a little money because the plastic surgeon the general surgeon wanted on hand in case she needed some skin from somewhere else to close the wound was taken out of the planning so they would let her have her surgery. The wound did not close properly and never healed leaving her in constant pain with an open cancerous wound until she died 20 months later.

The other thing besides them saving some money was in the last month of waiting for them it grew quite large and metasticized changing the prognosis radically.

Need I post her picture? Do you really think they will stop killing people when we are all mandated to buy whatever crappy policy they offer? Will they stop saying let her die, we want the doctors to do it more cheaply?

They also insured I went into massive debt for their angelic control of the situation.

You are confusing health care with a product that supplies no health care whatsoever but rather dictates what care will not be delivered, for this they get billions a year.

Watch Michael Moor's documentary and you will learn of many more accounts that will clarify that they are not health care providers like doctors and nurses by rather heartless vultures feasting on the needs of the sick in order to maximize profit.

I will not cheer the vultures on as a systemic and terrible problem is further codified into the system.

[one_voice]

4. I can't express how sorry I am for your loss...

I am also sorry if this picture offended you in any way, that was not my intention.

No, you needn't post a picture of your wife, I've watched a loved one die of cancer, I'm very familiar with it.

I also worked for an insurance company, many years ago, I know first hand what bastards they are.

I know things aren't going to change dramatically, and it's going to take a while. That being said, Obamacare has helped people. It will be life saving for some, not nearly enough no doubt.

I'm not blind to the evils that still exist and need to be changed. I will continue to fight for single payer, though I'm sure there that will have it's own set of problems.

Again, I'm so very sorry for your loss, and I didn't intend for this to hurtful for anyone.

edited to add a word.

[slipslidingaway]

5. I had to walk away when reading your post, people post pictures of an unknown adult ...

or child to support this law (and in extension support of Obama) that leaves millions without access to care, leaves millions in bankruptcy and leaves millions of people with a plan (Medicaid) that many doctors will not accept.

There really is no excuse and I'm so sorry that your wife is not here because of the sytem we have and the system many of our politicians continue to support, and too many of them are in our party

And they call that health care?

I remember 18 months ago getting into bed with my husband for the first time after weeks of him in the hospital and all I felt was bones, just bones, he had just had a bone marrow transplant for leukemia, and it is so very much etched into my mind.

A picture cannot possibly capture the agony and worry we feel, yet these pictures of some anonymous person are still posted without care. I surely hope they stop posting these unknown pictures to further some political agenda ... guess you have to have been there to understand that Everyone needs a chance.

We need a system where everyone has a chance to be treated, the sickest go first, that is how it should be. This may all be contrary to my own needs, the lifetime maximum cap is certainly looming after the transplant and my daughter is currently doing her residency. At her graduation from Med school most speakers talked of the need for a HC system for all, there was no talk of profit or personal gain, it was about care. It is the right thing for everyone, it is the right thing for our country. Bailing out a diminishing for profit HC sytem is not.

Big hugs to you, I SO wish it had been different.

[jwirr]

6. When I posted it on my facebook page I made it personal for those who know me by adding the

message "Remember our Terri" and I do not mean Shaivo. My daughter's name is Terri.

[slipslidingaway]

8. Is this a picture of your daughter ...

and please share your story if you want.

Pictures are being posted without any stories, I could post pictures, although my husband might not be too pleased!

I'm usually rather private, but these unknown pictures to support a political agenda are rather upsetting to those of us who are living this everyday.

Best to you and yours.

[jwirr]

10. No this lady is not my daughter. My Terri is developmentally disabled to the extent that she needs

one to one assistance in all aspects of daily living. She is fed through a tube in her tummy and wears diapers etc. Needs about the same care as a 5 month old baby even though she is 56 years old. If she did not get here medications she would die so this poster meant a lot to me and her family that will see it on facebook. She does not talk except for smiles and laughter and an occasional roudy scream. But she does enjoy life and is curious about what is going on around her. She was only supposed to live to be 30 years old but good medical care has given her 26 extra years so far. I took care of her for the first 45 years of her life at home and she is in a foster home now because I can no longer lift her as I did before. Fortunately I got to train her foster parents in how to care for her so it is a great home for her.

[slipslidingaway]

11. Thanks for sharing your story ...

not an easy path, but I'm happy to hear she is able to have the care she needs.

I guess the problem is we do not know this woman's story and whether or not the ACA would make any difference. But obviously her picture is just being used to try and gain some political points.

It is not about insurance, it is about care that can still be delayed or denied under the ACA, the millions who will still be left behind and also the resulting financial hardships.

Best to you and your family.

[slipslidingaway]

7. Do you realize there still will be millions of people who do not have access any type of care,

and millions of people who will have barely any access to those doctors under the Medicaid system, and then millions who find themselves in financial hardship trying to keep up with annual out of pocket maximum pay outs.

While there are good things with this law and many people will be helped, in the end it really helped the insurance companies who have seen diminished enrollment for their policies. What they feared was a national, not for profit HC system, sadly the Dems went along.

And what they are really concerned about is all dollars from the boomers who they will lose to Medicare.

And what happens to Medicare, the system has too many participants, no wonder all the talk of entitlement spending.

Obama had the perfect opportunity to connect the dots for the American people, he blew it!

We need a a large pool of HC subscribers, we need a pool of people who are using the system and paying into the system, the definition of insurance.

With the demographics now was THE time, the Dems really blew it. The boomers are a huge factor that could have been used to tell the truth, instead they chose to support the for profit companies.

These pictures are insulting to those of us who have their own pictures, we're living through the For Profit system.

[girl gone mad]

9. Insurers are free to deny claims.

People will still die because they can't afford copays.

It's not worth handing further control of our health care system to the vulture rent-seeking for-profit insurance industry, in my honest view.