Friday, July 31, 2009

Re: [epilepsy] health reform bill

 

http://www.capwiz.com/afanet/webreturn/?url=http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.3200:

This is very frightening!  What it looks like is everyone will get coverage; however, services will be reduced/limited in an attempt to cut health care costs.    The worst part is that members of Congress will not have to partake in the same program the rest of the country will have to use.  They have their own private program!  Why would Americans approve a system that limits our fantastic care to something similar to Canada?  It does not make sense. 

Laura

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From: Wendy Baur <wendy.sue@gmail.com>
To: epilepsy@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 3:51:43 PM
Subject: Re: [epilepsy] health reform bill

 
sadly the gov thinks the issue is with how much doctors charge for
services but what they fail to realze is that if they looked at how
much insurance reinburses for the services a doctor charges (penies)
they would start with the insurance companies. My husband owns a
physical therapy office and for in network blue cross blue sheld
patients we get a whopping 45 dollars. It costs us more to pay the
therapist and office space than 45 dollars an hour...we are loosing
money and considering closing our doors.

Look ad medications it costs over 300 dollars for a 20 day supply of
my daughter's Lictamal medication if I were to purchase the same
medication in canada it would cost around 65 dollars for 100 pills!!
I do understand that due to FDA regulations of our medications the
lictamal I could purchase from canada is different from the US
formulation. My point is that a drug company can charge that amount
because the insurance company will pay. The system that we have is
currupt but, works so, why can't we simply fix what is wrong with the
current system??????

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:41 PM, jason<jason_zellmer27@ yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> As a young guy I already have my opinion of the Health care bill up for
> debate.
> However there has been alot of talk about limiting benefits for those who
> could be classified as disabled. I would like to hear other people's take on
> the issue and see what they think.
>
>

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