[Hedons]

this makes you sound like an idiot and god it really pisses me off that something so stupid would be said

Rape is a pre-existing condition?

Rape Victim's Choice: Risk AIDS or Health Insurance?



my mother in law has bone cancer (5th round of what has become a life-long cancer battle) and a chronic low blood cell count. she was getting a weekly treatment to help her body produce more blood cells, but now her insurance is denying the treatment. because of this she hardly has the energy to go shopping, even with a wheelchair. her days have always been "numbered" but now she's feeling it and you can tell it weighs heavily on her. to hell with these insurance companies and to hell with your ridiculous example.

really that you would say some stupid shit like that in the face of real concerns affecting millions of our peers is sickening. i used to think highly of you based on conversations in transcendental thc and having a kickass avatar. it's hard even respecting you after this show.

I mirrored back what I though you had said to me to illustrate what I consider an absurdity.

It is absurd to expect or require an insurance company to issue a policy to to cover a pre-existing condition. That is "not insurance". I will say though that insurance companies with their slush funds are a bunch of filthy whores grouped right up there next to politicians and tort lawyers.

If healthcare costs are going to be reasonable and managed, a good place to start would be tort reform. Why isn't one of the primary things that has driven up the cost of healthcare being addressed in healthcare proposals?

President Obama has talked about cutting wasted healthcare spending. Why aren't there proposed bills which addresses "defensive medicine" (doctors ordering extra and arguably unnecessary tests to protect themselves from costly lawsuits)?

I've said it before but I'll say it again just to be clear. The system sucks. My wife and I have had a decent dose of dealing with it last year and the two years leading up to the loss of her father to lung cancer. Yeah it sucks. But to expect the government to come in, wave the magic legislation/tax/inflation/debt/bureaucracy wand to make things better in the long run is beyond me.

I think it was best summed up when someone characterized a national health care plan as having the compassion of the IRS, the efficiency of the Postal Service and the pricing structure of a Pentagon toilet seat.

I apologize for coming across as some uncompassionate jerk; I assure you I am not.

I'm just really fucking angry. (and it's not at you)

-Hedons