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By: sorelegs

sorelegs — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:26:24 +0000

MAJ Mike,
You might be great with a buck but unless you are independently wealthy you are not going to be able to pay for your own cancer treatment without the help of a health insurance company.
Health Insurance is just another form of vegas style gambling; it is rigged so that the house comes out ahead. WHile else would they do it? It aint because the stock holders want you to get cured and spare any expense.
So the question is not who is better with a buck you or the government. The questions is who is better; We the people running a system for our own benefit or profit driven health care corporations?
Even if you can afford your own cancer or whatever treatment… What about those of us that can’t? Too bad we should have planned better?

By: MAJ Mike

MAJ Mike — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:45:23 +0000

There is a little maxim that holds true in all things:

You get what you pay for.

Frankly, I do better with a dollar than any government does, so I’ll do my own paying, thanks. Just let me keep my dollar so I can do that.

By: jarocco

jarocco — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:03:13 +0000

I have only recently found the Fat Cyclist website so pardon me if you have heard this before. I enjoy everything related to cycling including your personal battles with food, fat and conditioning. Being a nurse at a major clinical cancer center, I can appreciate what you and Susan are going through. And cancer has hit our family too. I wish you both well. That said, I have to say, I’m not that excited to see politics enter the site. But as long as its out there let me say this about the single payer system. Every industrialized nation in the world has some form of universal health care. And it is hard for me to believe that, as smart as we Americans claim to be, we can’t find the best single payer plan that will work for all Americans. As some of your readers are finding out, even a seemingly well insured person, can find himself and his family in very dire straits when something as devastating as cancer hits. I work everyday on the fiscal side of healthcare. Trust me, health insurance companies have only one thing on their agenda – profit. How sad indeed that something as precious as our loved ones health is dependent on the beneficence of some cold and uncaring health insurance behemoth. I rant. Sorry.

By: sorelegs

sorelegs — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:35:46 +0000

Thanks Fatty,
You are right about just fighting it. I’ll keep you posted.

By: Sprocketboy

Sprocketboy — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:09:43 +0000

The Associated Press has summarized costs of the Iraq War below. Think of what that could have done spent elsewhere. I think my original figure of $6 billion per week may be a bit low.

COST:

_Stepped-up military operations are costing about $12 billion a month, with Iraq accounting for $10 billion per month, according to a July 2007 analysis by the Congressional Research Service.

_Total cost to the U.S. government so far is over $490 billion.

_According to a November 2007 report from the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee, total economic costs for the Iraq war are estimated at $1.3 trillion for the period from 2002 to 2008. This figure represents the hidden costs of the war beyond the direct budgetary appropriations, including interest costs of borrowing these funds, lost investment, long-term veterans’ health care and oil market disruptions.

_ A January 2007 study by Linda Bilmes of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government put the total projected cost of providing medical care and disability benefits to veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan at $350 billion to $700 billion.

By: woogie

woogie — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:45:09 +0000

Who says universal health care equals insurance companies? That’s the solution that is proposed by the politicians of both parties in this country.

The proposals so far are that you have to have insurance, through work or through purchasing it yourself. It would be illegal to be uninsured. They do throw us a bone, in that previous conditions don’t apply, but it is still money out of our pockets into big business.

In Canada, you’re covered, that’s it. You don’t go out and buy insurance. In Canada the insurance is run by each provincial government, not by a company.

The downfall of the Canadian system is being a neighbor to the US, better opportunities and better money.

Then there’s geography, the country is huge, and there are areas with minimal population density, that still require medical coverage. Many Dr’s don’t want to work in a remote area making limited income while incurring excessive expenses.

Then there’s the flat fee issue. In Canada the top orthopedic surgeon makes the same as the worst orthopedic surgeon for a hip replacement. And they are both paid by the government to do the work. So if you didn’t have to pay and could pick any Dr you want to do your surgery, who would you go to? Add this to the shortage of Dr’s and you get waiting lines.

By: fatty

fatty — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 04:56:05 +0000

sorelegs – i really, really hope your results come back clean. let me know, ok? you’re in my thoughts.

everyone else – this is too important an issue to not get involved in in every possible way, and that includes politically. that said, for those of you who believe that things like this belong outside the arena of politics, i really hope you’re working to fight cancer in other ways.

my final word: i don’t want to fight anyone about cancer. i just want to fight cancer.

By: AMR

AMR — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:08:44 +0000

This interview on Texas Monthly with Lance Armstrong is good. He was at/held a forum on cancer in Iowa last year and he names the candidates that attended.
He alludes to candidates not knowing enough about cancer to put it front and centre in their campaigns because then they’ll be grilled on it. (What?!! And come off looking like a bit of an idiot? Think that would happen?)
It’s high time.
Here’s the clip…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw7Ek7L7Ip8