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Originally Posted by griffonwing
I have 2 heart conditions.
1) Pulmonary Stenosis - The artery which supplies blood to my lungs is narrower than it should be, so my heart has to pump harder. The upside, I have a strong heart. The downside, it may wear out quicker than normal.
2) Heart Murmer - Basically, it's a leaky valve. Not too terrible, but it's audible with an ear to the chest.
I have been diagnosed with these since birth. I have never required or been prescribed for medication for either. I get winded more quickly than others, and for the first 30 years of my life, I have weighed no more than 125 lbs. (57Kg or 8.7 stone). I'm now up to about 145-150. Considering I am about 5'6", it's not too terribly bad.
I recently applied for health insurance, and was denied due to my 2 heart conditions. The funny thing is, a murmer is not that bad. Many MANY people have them and don't even know it, and are not even affected by it. Now, I could go wit a different plan, but I would have to pay a substantially larger amount of money per month for the coverage.
Is this fair? I don't think so. I basically need to get some insurance soon so that I can get some tests done. What with both of my younger brothers dying of Lymphoma at ages 32 and 36, I feel it might be in my best interest to make sure.
Anyway, as for a National Health Care program. No, Against it. I am against anything that give my government even more power than it already has. The US Govt is already too big for it's britches, and has it's hands in everyone's cookie jar. And I don't mean just it's citizens, but the world's as well.
We need to get back to where the government governs the states, and the states have their own laws. Abortion, Drugs, Hate Crimes (don't get me started with that one), Vaccinations, Taxes...it should be STATE RUN, not federally mandated. The Fed Gov should simply be a watchman for the state governments. That was how it used to be. That is what our Constitution dictates, and it was the sole basis for our country to begin with.
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I'm going to say this as nicely as possible: you are arguing against your own interests. I'm not angry or trying to make fun, just read me out (instead of hear me.... k). The states have had their chances. They failed. They have failed for decades. It was in their hands and it failed miserably.
Also, there should not be certain standards of care in one state and different standards in another. If this occurs, the red states (i.e. mostly south) will suffer greatly. They have Republican candidates traditionally running their states and they have high portions of poor people.
I think national health care is backed by our US Constitution. They are regulating an interstate commercial issue which is completely in their power. It needs to be uniform across the states for a number of reasons: better health for those in poverty, better production from our populace, healthier populace also is better for national security, etc. If people were healthier, and this includes those with low income jobs, more people would be able to show up at work more often and be far more productive, taking less sick days or getting better quicker on sick days because they saw a doctor. There is nothing that says states should own this power.
Lastly, placing us all in the same pool would actually lower costs and unhitch our doctors from health insurance. This, of course, is an argument for UHC, which I am for all the way. It's time we stopped making excuses and joined the rest of the industrialized world. We have a wrong headed mentality about this topic and it's going to kill us financially because the Health Insurance Companies sure aren't going to stop raising their prices. In 10 years, if it keeps going, none of us but the top 5% of this nation will be able to afford an ounce of health care. It will not be available to normal people like you and me. You deserve to get health care and a public option may be the only way that is going to happen.
Why people trust private industry is beyond me and the states have failed us on all of these points. Time to move on
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