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What does UnitedHealthcare CEO Stephen Hemsley have to lose if Congress passes real healthcare reform this year? Well, for starters, his nearly three quarters of a billion dollars in unexercised stock options might lose a few pennies on the dollar.

What does Isabella, a four year-old girl in Winsconsin who is physically incapable of eating and has had to be tube fed her entire life, have to gain from healthcare reform? The treatment she needs to live a normal life.

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Oh now this is too good to pass up...
What is wrong with the little girl who is incapable of eating, and is not getting the care she is supposed to get?
First off I doubt any where in the US that there is a child who is so ill that does not have access to a healthcare plan. It does not happen. A child in this predicament has access to state health programs by virtue of the parent's lack of assets (if that is the case). In most instances these children get referred to a specialty center such as St. Judes, where the treatment in some if not all cases is free, because these charity hospitals operate on donated funds.
This is no sob story meant to bend the callous right winger such as you would hope. If investigated fully it can be found that there is already access to care, it may not be what some may think she needs, but I assure you a government healthcare plan is NOT going to provide that for any one.
BTW, ask yourself why ole Ted kennedy goes out of state to get his health care for his brain tumor, when he is part of a "state plan" for all? Is he saying the care is better for him elsewhere? Maybe it is because his Senatorial insurance plan is so good he can afford to do it.
What some of you lefties refuse to believe is that access to good healthcare plans will go away, whether the government regulates them or not thru their plan. When the insurance companies cannot function under the new government rules, and compete with a cheaper government plan that will essentially bankrupt hospitals and doctors, they will shut down, thus denying access to those who want it.
Look at the failed plan in Hawaii and Massachusetts as you starting point. For goodness sake, don't let history spoil your view of your "perfect" society.
This is the typical BS spoutage of the looney lefties who are trying to get this crap crammed down the American people's throats. There are some things that need attention in healthcare, but the current proposals are not what the people need nor want.
The parents of this child should be ashamed of allowing her to be used in this fashion by these people, but it never ceases to amaze me the length and depth of the depravity from these people.
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Originally posted by zippadeedoodah:
How about this, nimrod.

Shriner's Hospitals are supported by voluntary contributions and have NEVER turned away a sick child for not being able to pay.

You want healthcare reform? Keep the government out of it.



Shriner's Hospitals like St. Jude will not turn down health insurance or payments from familes who want to pay a little at a time. It is hard to get a child in either hospital as there is a waiting list for St. jude. I think Shriner's Hospitals is for kids who are burned from fire, but not sure if they treat other than burned children.
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Shriner's Hospitals like St. Jude will not turn down health insurance or payments from familes who want to pay a little at a time. It is hard to get a child in either hospital as there is a waiting list for St. jude.


present your PROOF NOW on St Judes hospital. I want to see it . As I have a great nephew there presently, no insurance of any kind.(and it is people such as these young relatives of mine causing the problems with an overworked system) Because like so many others insurance was not a concern to them,,,until now
All it took was one phone call by his dr. and the 3 hr trip to get there. So I want to see this evidence you have for spouting off about a "waiting list".
I have never, NEVER, seen a child turned down for admittance to either of these hospitals when they have a serious illness. A child with leukemia or a serious debilitating disease is taken there without question. If the parents have insurance, they bill it, if they don't, the child still receives care.
More left wing lunacy......
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Originally posted by Nobluedog:
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Originally posted by teyates:
I have never, NEVER, seen a child turned down for admittance to either of these hospitals when they have a serious illness. A child with leukemia or a serious debilitating disease is taken there without question. If the parents have insurance, they bill it, if they don't, the child still receives care.
More left wing lunacy......



At St.jude hospital, yes, this is true, but, there is a waiting list that you forget.



Totally classless!
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Originally posted by Nobluedog:
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Originally posted by zippadeedoodah:
How about this, nimrod.

Shriner's Hospitals are supported by voluntary contributions and have NEVER turned away a sick child for not being able to pay.

You want healthcare reform? Keep the government out of it.



Shriner's Hospitals like St. Jude will not turn down health insurance or payments from familes who want to pay a little at a time. It is hard to get a child in either hospital as there is a waiting list for St. jude. I think Shriner's Hospitals is for kids who are burned from fire, but not sure if they treat other than burned children.


Those hospitals are also funded through private donations. The government doesn't own them or run them.

Now compare St. Jude to a government owned and run hospital like Walter Reed. If you needed care, which one would you go to?
The whole point of this is that the hearts of the American people are big enough to voluntarily provide for those with sincere need. And do it much more effectively than the parasites inhabiting Foggy Bottom can do. Whether or not St. Jude will bill insurance is irrelevant; it's how they deal with those without it.

And waiting list or not, no one with serious need is turned away.
Possible closure of six free Shriners hospitals scares parents.


The system's board says it may ask the fraternity's membership in July for authority to close six hospitals -- including the one in Greenville -- largely because the endowment fund that supports the hospitals dropped from $8.5 billion to $5.2 billion over the last year as the stock market plummeted.

The others that could close are in Erie, Pennsylvania; Shreveport, Louisiana; Spokane, Washington; Springfield, Massachusetts; and Galveston, Texas. The Galveston hospital's operations have been suspended since Hurricane Ike flooded it last year
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH...ref=harpo_topstories



St. Jude hospital has turn some children away.


Cancermom, I don't have the words to express how sorry I am that you know of children who have passed away from cancer. As an employee of the organization, however, I openly admit that yes, the hospital has to turn some children away. It is unfortunate, but because the patients's treatment is given at NO COST and the family's expenses are COMPLETELY covered, there is absolutely no possible way to accommodate everyone. And that is false we don't admit the fact that the child's diagnosis has to be something the hosptial is studying (which is wide array of cancers and other catastophic illnesses) and that the child needs their doctor's referral. The referral can be received, though, after the family calls the freely given out 1-800 referral line and touch base with the hospital on their own. I would like to apologize on behalf of whomever said the hospital was "not interested" in taking your friend's child. I have never heard of anything except the highest quality patient and potential patient care and service. Also, I'm heartbroken to hear the young boy has since passed away and wish the hospital could accommodate any and every child, but I hope you understand in some way that is just not feasible. Maybe you can take some solace knowing thousands of children from around the world and right in your back yard have been saved by the treatment given and research/protocols developed at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, a place of HOPE.
http://www.charitynavigator.or....comments&orgid=5234

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