Just imagine if the whole nation was under one big network. Either the procedure would be covered or it wouldn’t. It could always be rationed so you’ll have to wait. There is a handful of ways to shift the system around, but the given situation is that too few dollars are chasing too many interventions. If you increase the number of dollars you going to take that out of other important areas, such as education, security, food and shelter. If you cut down on the number of interventions you’re going to have a lot of people upset by not getting what they want or need in the way of medical care.
Let me get this straight. He gives us an anecdote of a man who was so discouraged by the Canadian system that he went to the US to pay for treatment out of his own pocket, found he didn’t have enough money, got shoved back on the Canadian list and died without treatment. And that shows the Canadian system works well?
How can we be sure that whatever the government comes up with will work better than what we have here? As P.J. O’Roark said, “If you think health care is expensive now, wait until it’s free.”
We most certaintly DO have waiting lists, especially for transplants. Organs that match you as well as is possible do not just fall out of the sky on a regular basis. They’re also only good for a few days after death, so you have to be lucky and have someone die young and cleanly close by the hospital you’re at to actually get the organ. You are put on a list. My mother is on tons of lists.
WOW…4 months to get an MRI
Yup, twice it had to be rescheduled because whenever I arrived there was a car crash victim and they, obviously, took precedence. I was a ‘non-critical’ case, so I was always on the back-burner. I basically showed up at the MRI about once a week at 5am in the morning, and finally it was free sometime four months later for me.WOW…4 months to get an MRI
I live in the tri-state area, never had to wait more than 1-2 days for an MRI/CAT/PEP etc.
I am curious, what is her cancer and what is the recommended therapy?
Is this the only MRI in your area? They couldn’t take you after the car accident victim?
Does she appeal the denials? And in regards to cancer care, not everything is considered experimental. Radiation, chemo, bone marrow transplant, etc. are not experimental while alternative things (supplements, some drugs that are used to treat a certain cancer when used to treat another type of cancer etc.) under most policies are experimental.
Mom has ovarian cancer. It’s always caught at late stages, and she’s taken every single chemotherapy that is approved for ovarian cancer. None of those worked, we’ve had to since start using things that are not approved for it, thus the fight with the insurance company.
No, there were other scheduled people who were considered more ‘time-critical’. It was the only one I could get to, because at the time I was jobless, homeless and without a car (The MRI is another one of those big bills incidentally). I had to use the bus system, so I was also limited in times when I could get there.
What is the pharmaceutical called? If you do not know, is it a small molecule or a monoclonial antibody?
Not a clue, I don’t have much information from home outside of mom’s health. I am disowned from my family, my mother is my only contact and that is because of her cancer. They decided it was okay for me to see her now and then since she is dying.
I prefer docetaxel because I like socialism and I do not like private property.
It works for her, her CA125 count is dropping rapidly and her hemoglobin count is recovering finally, for the first time in about a year. The doctor really wanted taxotere, but it seems this is working well enough. This situation has happened several times before and either the lawyer of my uncle stepped in to fix the matter.I prefer docetaxel because I like socialism and I do not like private property.
Taxol is a generic. I do not know whether if it is effacious in ovarian cancer (never checked).
We don’t know why he tried to go to the States - he’s not around to ask. I suppose he may have been trying to queue-jump, and obviously, if so, then he miscalculated his jump.
Was he Canadian?
Except that your system punished him for going outside the system. Did he get a trial before they imposed the death penalty?
I’m an American, and I have a duty to my fellow citizens not to allow them to be led down the garden path.I don’t know why that bothers you so much. Obviously, in your case, you will never be forced to accept any kind of help from anybody - if anyone you love gets sick, you will be paying it out of your own savings account - nobody will ever be able to call you a charity case or a socialist, and that’s your goal, so why worry about what everyone else is doing?
What were they supposed to do, stop him at the border and drag him back kicking and screaming?
He left the system, of his own accord.
No, just not sentence him to death by pushing him back on the list.What were they supposed to do, stop him at the border and drag him back kicking and screaming?
And that carries the death penalty without trial under the Canadian system?
Lucky for him he didn’t inadvertantly break any rules!My father, by contrast, stuck with the system, and is alive and well today, without any debts, and without any worries.
About heroics …
A friend of mine does this because she and her husband are uninsured. They owe the doctor money so the office won’t see them anymore without cash up front. So, when they have symptoms where they may have an infection & be in need of antibiotics, or have minor injuries, they go to the ER. Otherwise, they’d go untreated.
Ahead of people who didn’t leave?
(Should my Dad have waited around to see whether he wanted the kidney, before taking it? Or just take him at his word, that the American system is so much better, who needs you?)Or on purpose, either!!Lucky for him he didn’t inadvertantly break any rules!
