Of course this is sarcasm....I am glad to hear of the happy ending, and wish you and yours all the best.

Of course that's INTENSE and I am overjoyed that a DUer's (or anyone's, really) life was saved.

The ACA recently saved a dear cousin of mine, as well. I am not one to make the perfect an enemy of the good, that's for sure--and I'm covered by TRICARE, so I could be one of those "I got MINE, screw everyone else" types--but I'm not. A rising tide lifts all boats!!!!

and too many DUers will happily sacrifice others and let them die just to continue complaining about the US health system.



I'm still waiting for any DUer to tell me who gets rich off the medicaid expansion. No takers so far.

Samples:

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/may/26/nhs-failing-in-care-of-elderly-patients

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/mar/05/samuel-starr-three-heart-death-nhs-operation-scan

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/mar/20/nhs-hospitals-failing-meet-targets-waiting-times-treatment

As I have shared before, I live in South Korea and we have universal health care. I think we should look at all the different ways health care is being done around the world to get ideas on how to eventually move toward either universal care or single payer.

The Taiwanese have an interesting model, as well.

They went round to this country and that, and did a compare and contrast. There are lots of good ideas being implemented in many countries. UK and Canada are certainly not the be-all and end-all (otherwise their patients wouldn't be going private--and quite a few do just that; the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel film had a sub-plot centered around a woman who couldn't wait eons for a new hip, for example).

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/view/main.html

You can watch the program at the above link. It's eight years old, but there are some interesting take-aways.

I'll try watching that while I'm stateside before I head back. I never can tell if things are available in Korea due to the network restrictions.

I haven't had trouble w/PBS links in most spots I've been to, lately, but I haven't been to the other side of the world in years...!

Sheesh.
NOT sarcasm, just a gratuitous attack.

I think it's important we remember just who said what.

And I do think a lot of people banged the gloom and doom drum with unnecessary vigor. The name-calling just wasn't called for, and I won't forget it.

And it's been tolerated.

I'm getting pretty sick of it, myself.

I thought this thread was about Rhythm getting help. I didn't realize it was about Obama.

I didn't realize the need for health care was about Obama.

I do recognize that the ACA is based on Romneycare, which is why I thought you were referring to Romney.

My apologies.

such as yours, brevity is important. I think the 3rd and 4th lines are de trop.

My posts on this thread are quite brief, and make a clear point. I'm not protesting anything.

Inconvenient truths are often unwelcome.

of pretending that you didn't know what I was talking about? Not for anything, but you recommended the thread where the President was called a piece of shit used car salesman. So you knew exactly what I was talking about.

Why use a gambit?

Was it the OP, or another post in that thread?

I don't remember reading that phrase before I saw it here, so I very much doubt if that was what I was recommending. I'll go look at my recent recommendations to be sure, just to give you the benefit of the doubt, but no,

I did not know exactly what you were talking about.

Since you didn't "get" the point, let me be more explicit:

1. I'm not a big fan of the ACA, BUT

2. I AM a big fan of people getting health care, SO

3. I am glad, and grateful, that the ACA helped Rhythm get the care she needed, YET

4. I recognize that because SOME are helped by the ACA, many are not. Therefore,

5. I don't think the ACA is the answer, and

6. that was obvious from the beginning, when RomneyCare was the model used to create the ACA.

7. Finally, I find using an OP about someone's health crisis to make the issue all about Barack Obama instead of about that person's health crisis to be tasteless.

I hope it's clear now.

Edited to add: after scrolling through 5 pages and weeks of threads I've recommended, the only thread I found that addresses health care, at least remotely in the title, is one about Bernie Sanders claiming health care is a right. That OP says nothing about Obama. I didn't re-read all 5 pages of threads, but none of them appeared to be about Obama based on thread titles.

When you professed ignorance as to what I was talking about, all I had to do was use that helpful little search box, up on the right, to discern that not only were you quite familiar with the phrase in question, but you had actually recommended the thread from which it originated.

So I still do not understand your professed ignorance of what I was talking about.

You are worried about my taste level? How kind.

supplied me with a list of every recommendation I've made, which is what I just told you about.

And you didn't answer the question: Was that an OP I recommended? Or was that a thread replying to that OP? The only thing we recommend are OPs, and I didn't find an OP I'd recommended. As I've already explained.

I notice you don't provide a link, and you don't want to focus on any clarifications. So what ARE you trying to establish? Something about me this time? What?

I am glad to read of the happy ending.

Julie

U r worse than Hitler's dog.


Tea Party 4evah!




Damn.... a GOPNRAteahadist took over my account for a few seconds.


So happy that the ACA overcame the STUPIDITY of the right.

Happy...

The ACA is trickle down healthcare, or Reagancare if you will. Socialism in medicine would have also saved rhythms life, without the half trillion dollar windfall for Big Insurance.

Her life and thousands of others.

Or do you disagree? Was she not worth saving?

I am always amazed at those who are never satisfied with Obama's actions because in their minds he could have and should have done so much more even with the need to get congressional approval. Doctor J's expectation that Obama should have secured for Medicare for All is ridiculous. Even the majority of Dems were not on board for such an approach.

Forcing people at gunpoint to give money to corporations is the opposite of socialism.

Thanks for sharing her story!

The ACA isn't perfect, but it is saving lives that would have been lost.

Now, we just need to keep agitating for single-payer!!

Let Rhythm know I'm sending her

I was stage 2A and didn't need any additional treatment beyond surgery. Best wishes for an easy and uneventful recovery!

Very early, but very definitely cancer. An 8 centimeter tumor/lesion. She's getting around much better this week and she's been able to stop taking pain meds except for ibuprofen, so her recovery is definitely going well. I shall pass along your post. :hugs:

It is clear that the ACA saved her life. The lack of health insurances kills a large number of people each year.

Maybe it will be one of the ten letters per day that the president reads. I hope so.

Thank you for telling us. Glad there was a positive outcome after such a terrible scare and Rhythm will have a healthy recovery.

Saving people's lives!!! Thank goodness that the system worked. I'm so sorry that your family, like so many others, has had to go without needed medical care in the past, but I am so thankful and grateful that your family, especially Rhythm was able to get care.

What a miracle that they got to her in time!!! As a taxpaying, voting American, this is certainly what I'd like my taxes to go toward!!!

Bless you for posting this!

And that step is moving a lot of lives forward along with it. Good for her and your family!

is not because they cannot afford an office visit, but because if the doctor finds something, they could not afford the treatment.

What a stressful way to live - thank goodness a large amount of that stress is now lifted, for millions, with ACA.

I'm just incredibly glad and grateful that Rhythm had good insurance and access to healthcare, thanks to the ACA. I lost my Mom two years ago to emphysema...I don't have much family left.

I support single-payer, and I don't think we should stop pushing for that. But thank god we had this *now*...

many of the poor would be eliminated by death due to lack of medical care....by their fruits you will know them (someone's famous quote)

good sense to go to the dr. to be checked and ultimately saved.

only helping the very poorest. The almost-poor were out there in the market with everyone else. People whose jobs don't have health insurance and who can't afford the premiums.

Grateful for your shared story.

Please tell Rhythm to take it very easy in her recovery and not do too much too soon. Had a full hysterectomy some years ago and I tried to push a little too fast. She will be surprised how much better she feels in a few months. The energy you get from getting rid of those malfunctioning organs is wonderful. I am so glad she was able to get the medical care she needed just at the right time. I agree with Femmocrat, you should send a letter to the White House.

Insurance coverage saves lives, because people are far more likely to go to the doctor and get preventive care.

I cannot help to smile whenever I think of this post. I have been in and out of the house to the garden and clothesline, so I wanted to take a break and let you know how happy I am for Rhythm, you and the rest of your family.

Hurray!

Take care,

Laurel

I think a cessation of the near-constant, low-level menstrual anemia probably has something to do with that. She'd been bleeding heavily for 2-3 weeks out of the month for several years...ugh.

I am not plugged in to the social end of DU, but 19 years ago I had a hysterectomy due to fibroids, one the size of a 16-week fetus (sorry to be so graphic, for you men out there! women will understand) that caused me to be horribly anemic for a long time, so I understand. Thank God we had decent insurance at the time. I am glad you now do!

As for Bøner and Crud Tez and all the rest of them who keep trying to repeal the ACA, they should, in the words of a dear departed colleague of mine, eat shit and die!

All the lies peddled by the GOP, all the POS crap that gets peddled here -- this would give him a lift for sure. His own mother died of a gynecological cancer that was caught too late, and I know your account would warm his heart.

Hopefully more and more of these stories will become public, and be stuffed down the throats of the rich Republican obstructionists from whom the ACA 'as it stands' was the ~best~ we could wrestle from them (and even then, they're ~STILL~ frothing for its overturn).

I'm not a surgeon, or a teacher, an engineer, or anything that society in general finds all that 'deserving'.
I'm a kitchen manager in a college-town pub.
A semi-disposable cog in the working-class service-industry machine.

But i'm also a mom, and a favorite aunt, and the one who handles the day-to-day runnings of my family's household.
The fact that -- until now -- i haven't had health insurance as a benefit from my job, nor have i been able to afford it privately, has been a matter of random circumstance; The ACA fills that gap until something better comes along.

Because we live paycheck-to-paycheck, if not for the affordable premiums and co-pays, i would have foregone diagnostics and treatment until i was physically unable to keep on keeping-on... and by that point, i would have been designing my funeral instead of re-designing the pub's menu.

No one is undeserving!!

That is the most vicious lie the right has pushed - that somehow some lives are more precious than others!!!

Take it easy as you recover.

that you caught this in time.

Warmest wishes!

I hope you'll write the letter about your surgery to the WH and cc it to your congresscritters, no matter what party they belong to.

I've called candidates and told them I wouldn't vote for anyone who wants to repeal the ACA unless it is to create Medicare for all.

Which is why, even though what we have right now is far from ideal, I'm not going to be all-or-nothing about it.

Obama

story from finally being able to afford health insurance.. thanks to ACA/Obamacare!

Those here who say you should make this into a letter to the editor or a letter to the White House, or put it somewhere else on the record, are correct. You should. Make sure whoever represents you in the state legislature and in Congress get it, too. This anecdotal evidence is worth its weight in gold-pressed latinum!

So glad to hear this, btw, Lyric! So delighted to hear this! GREAT news!!!

I am so glad ACA was there for Rhythm. Best to you and your family as she recovers.

And I agree that her having health insurance was the contributing factor. Thanks for letting us know another success story for the ACA, and more personally, for Rhythm.

I am so pleased for you.

Unfortunately, 36,000 uninsured or underinsured will still die also. Let's finish the job with single payer! (States can implement single payer starting in 2017 under ACA,)

May she have a rapid recovery.

Life has been...unpredictable...over the past two years. Lots of changes, lots of turmoil, but hopefully things will settle down soon...

get these stories out there so people can read them. It will make a difference.
I'm happy for all of you especially Rhythm

So glad Rhythm was able to catch the cancer before it hurt her.

I was able to get on medicaid and go to the doctors. I found out the reason I was so fatigued all the time was severe anemia which was causing high BP and a fast heart rate. After almost 3 months of iron pills I will find out in about ten days if the iron supplements worked. if they did, I stay on them, if not I go to see a blood specialist.

Then a Gyn visit found some abnormal cells in my cervix. Further testing found them to be pre-cancerous (meaning high probability they will turn into cancer) and I am having part of my cervix removed this Thursday.

Hug Rhythm for me- so glad she is going to be okay

It made my day!

Thank you ACA <3

part D, that doesn't translate to approving of the design of the plans that allow the needed help.

that Rhythm was able to get insurance and to use that insurance to get care. Because I want every single person to be able to get truly affordable care.

I wish we could all afford care, and until that happens, I won't be satisfied with whatever is being offered up as a solution.

That doesn't mean that I'm not glad for the portion of the population that have been helped.

in states where medicaid isnt expanded or anywhere they try to do away with ACA is attempted murder

period

I am so glad they caught it early on.