Posted by PartlyCloudy on June 29, 2012, at 14:17:57
In reply to Re: Agreed » Dinah, posted by europerep on June 29, 2012, at 14:08:13
Bravo.
As someone who was not born in the US, and started receiving treatment for my mental illness in yet another country with what many here would term a "socialist" health care system, I can say that I have become measurably worse since having to deal with the system here in the USA, to the point where my disability benefits hearing is finally scheduled - after 2 years of denials and waiting.
Nothing - but nothing - is humane about how the healthcare system has been working here to date. This, at least, is a step in the right direction.
That healthcare is a RIGHT and not a PRIVILEGE. That it is not my fault I am sick and unable to work. I have faithfully paid in to a system that's supposed to supposed to care for me when I am unable to, and it has taken two years for me to get to a court! Why should this be up to a judge and not a panel of doctors?So much wrong. To have politicized the issue in the first place is sickening. It's inhumane to withhold care from anyone who needs it.
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