GOP lawmaker warns against health care changes (refers to her own breast cancer)

GOP lawmaker warns against health care changes

Saturday, September 19, 2009

(09-19) 10:13 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --

A GOP congresswoman grateful for quick detection of her breast cancer says Democratic health overhaul plans could mean life-threatening delays in treatment.

Rep. Sue Myrick of North Carolina said in her party's weekly radio and Internet address that her diagnosis "took six doctors, three mammograms and one ultrasound before they finally they found my cancer. This process took only a few weeks."

"Under the government-run health care system they have in Canada and the United Kingdom, I wouldn't have had the opportunity to get those tests so quickly," she said. "One international study found that three times as many citizens in those countries wait longer than a month to see a specialist. When it comes to life-threatening diseases like cancer, delay could mean death."

Democrats are looking for competition to private insurance companies to help drive prices down: a government-run insurance option, a trigger to add that option later; or nonprofit insurance cooperatives, designed to compete with private industry and give consumers more choices.

"These so-called health care reform bills have different names: a public option, a co-op, a trigger," Myrick said. "Make no mistake, these are all gateways to government-run health care."



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:freak:

No insurance, no doctor, no way to get mammograms and ultra-sounds?

Sheesh. I'm glad she had access to the health care she needed, but why does she want to deny it to others?

She is on Medicare.

http://myrick.house.gov/bio_extend.shtml

EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE:
• Attended Heidelberg College, 1959-1960; Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Heidelberg College, 1995.

So one year of collage and she's a senator.
... with an honorary doctorate.
No wonder they wanted Obama not to get his honorary degree from Arizona State - they think it means something!!

So one year of collage and she's a senator.

:rofl:

I can't tell if she's that stupid or that evil. She got her breast cancer diagnosed in short order because she had government health insurance, and people with breast cancer who don't know it and don't get the kind of care she does, Well, just FUCK THEM. Huh, Sue? Fuck those people who were too stupid to get a government job.

I hope the women's groups rip her a new asshole and drive her from office.

Under THIS system, my husband's cancer went undetected for SIX MONTHS. He went to doctors; they were just too stupid to figure out what it was.

And she's lying too. There are NO delays to see a specialist in countries with universal health care. THIS country is the country that delays cancer treatment and kills. With insurance companies acting as the agent of death by delaying treatment and denying payments.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22357873
I hope your husband fared better.

But the insurance company, even back then, was horrendous. They routinely denied to pay large parts of the bill, claiming they were 'above median prices for your area'. And when I SAVED THEM money by caring for my husband at home during chemo, choosing to go outpatient rather than be in the hospital, they refused even more bills.

I don't know why no one has gone postal in an insurance company yet.

"Under the government-run health care system they have in Canada and the United Kingdom, I wouldn't have had the opportunity to get those tests so quickly," she said. "One international study found that three times as many citizens in those countries wait longer than a month to see a specialist. When it comes to life-threatening diseases like cancer, delay could mean death."

This statement just drives me crazy and is a f**king lie!

My story (I've held off with my health insurance horror stories, but no more...)
About 10 years ago I suffered a condition which I won't describe because it's embarrassing, but let's say a couple times a day I was in intense pain and discomfort that could only be eased with a 15-20 minute hot bath. But it felt like I was being impaled on a red-hot spike!

I went to my doctor and he referred me to a specialist. The soonest appointment I could get was seven weeks!!! For seven f**cking weeks I suffered great pain and discomfort. I was on pain killers, stool softeners, and clear liquids but they didn't help much. When I saw the specialist I was scheduled for outpatient surgery three days later and went home feeling the best I felt in 49 days.

No member of Congress or health insurance CEO would have waited 49 days like I had to with my condition to see a specialist! NO WAY!!!

So all this "if you lived in other countries you would have to wait ___ days/weeks to see a specialist" is horseshit!

That were finally discovered to have been from pancreatic cancer far too late to save him. And under the current system, he had to work to keep his job related health insurance, all through the radiation and chemo. He finally stopped going to work two weeks before his death when he made the decision to stop the treatment that was no longer working. And with health insurance, he and his wife had to pay co-payments that ate all their savings.

Her total bill - the co pay for a private room - in Kingston General Hospital in Ontario was less than $40 c.

SHE HAS GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTH CARE!!

I wish there was a way to cancel medical insurance for all legislators. Let them go on the "open market", with "private" dollars & see how far they get.. Most of them would be excluded.

The crux of the problem is not the medical CARE..it's the paying for it.

In the US, we lock the hungriest people out of the restaurant, but we let them press their noses against the windows, so they can watch others eat..

They would betray their own fellow sufferers just to make a political point.

And this one's a stupid hypocrite, too.

But she should probably look at some of the actual waiting times for cancer treatment in the UK before spouting such bullshit.

There's a 2 week target for referrals to specialists here and there's a 99.9% compliance with that target (http://www.performance.doh.gov.uk/cancerwaits/2008/q3/can_1.html).

Even then she could have still paid for health insurance here and been seen whenever she wanted.