Best to your mom. Mine didn’t make it. She died in 1994 after a 20 year fight.

We’ve been without healthcare for 6 months now, due to premiums rising past ridiculousness – 600/month for a family of 3(no healthcare through work). All doctor visits are now on our dime and less frequent.

Here’s a little ditty I sing when I get my boobs squished, to the tune of Thanks for the Memories (Bob Hope version):

Thanks for the mammogram.
The left one and the right
You squeezed them really tight.
But now I know that I’m OK
And I can sleep at night.
So, thanks for the mammogram.

I’ve already posted once, after following your link to speak out about this. I can’t believe that Health Insurance Companies are this greedy and focused on short term profits. Every dollar spent on Diagnostic testing saves many more dollars on treatment, surgery and other associted costs–let alone the loss of life.

But this is just one more nail in the coffin of for profit insurance. After folks begin dying because they could afford the tests that would have prevented so much misery, folks will be screaming even more for Nationalized Health Care. It’s absurd that we let these insurance companies get away with Cherry Picking and the underwriting tactics that I once saw while working for Blue Shield. The exclusions, the coordination of benefits (as in trouble getting bills paid when you have TWO health care policies), to the utter failure to communicate to subscribers what benefits your plan doesn’t cover! Worse yet are some of the bogus insurance policies being sold today, that only cover 20% of what costs folks may endure. Stop loss, deductables, UCR (Usual, Customary and Reasonable) where the insurance company defines what they will pay! Then you have experimental techniques that although proven to work, can be denied on a technicality. Then there is the “Lifetime Maximum”, where you get cut off, even if the illness is generally covered under your health plan.

I now work in the Public Sector of Health Care and have alot easier a time sleeping at night, then I did when I was reviewing claims for BS (yes, that’s what I called them when I worked there).

Diagnostic Treatment should be a right, not some kind of exclusion designed to maximize profits at the expense of life!

I looked that the Senate version of the bill and the sponsors all appear to be “Pro-Life”er’s. GOP Hypocrisy is truly stunning.

Jackrod (#47) had the list–as well as the Congressional website another commenter provided.

Why can’t we get some of our opposite numbers on the Right Wing to oppose this? After all, I’m certain that many of them have lost a family member to Cancer too.

Also, thanks to George Bush–the level of cancer in this once great country can only increase.

I lost my mother to Breast Cancer in 1983 and if it had been caught in time, she might still be with me. The idea that these greedy, self serving corporations could get away with this makes me furious! Who ever signs on to this bill, Republican or Democrat, will earn my opposition, for the remainder of the time they are in office!!!!! I don’t care if you are a liberal or a red neck–it won’t matter to me!!!!!

Apparently the sponsors of this bill think there are too many people surviving breast and colon cancer, and too many diabetics leading otherwise healthy and productive lives. As a two-time cancer survivor, I have some very visceral reactions to the human suffering they intend to cause.

Think Medicare Pt. D is bad? Brace Yourself for the Enzi Bill

By subsidizing the system the US Government has become complicit with corporate predation on American citizens.

Our taxes are being used to feed a system that preys on us.

Another example of repubs and libertarians using bogus theories of privatization and deregulation to feed on the enormous public flow of cash.

This is thievery of the highest order!

Are there no laws?

I read an interesting article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer this morning. Entitled “Bias crimes found in all areas of city”, the title pretty much says it all. A city employee, on his own time, compiled statistics of all the hate crimes committed in Seattle over the last five years. As the title suggests, they occur everywhere, and for all sorts of reasons. The cases he compiled were from reported crimes, presumably many such crimes go unreported.

Seattle is a city rightly known for the civility of its inhabitants. If such things can happen there I think it’s safe to assume they can happen in any large city. One of the most striking incidents was the taunting of Asians in the International District. This area is one of the more popular places for Asians to settle and work. That they would be treated that way there tells me that there are some seriously stupid and hateful people around here.

The report is available here:
http://tinyurl.com/plj72

Sorry if this is a repeat, but I scanned for what seemed like appropriate keywords in all of today’s threads before posting.

Picking up where we left off yesterday, I think that it would be a good idea for us to communicate via e-mail (with some help from Jane and/or Christy) about Quaker genealogical resources. One resource I found nearly two years ago still works. If you’ve moved over to the new thread, I will repost this.