Comments on: Test-Marketing Health Care Rationing?

By: Jennifer O'Hara

Jennifer O'Hara — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:34:27 +0000

Ha! Boy, you and I should make that mottos. Sometimes I think Hubby should make me relinquish the computer after 10PM.

By: Cassandra

Cassandra — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:16:57 +0000

*precedent* No more late night posts for me!.. Though, a dangerous president IS what we have.. Badumba!

By: Cassandra

Cassandra — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:29:14 +0000

Wow, some doctors can be such megalomaniacs! I’m all for letting people spend their money as they so choose –and think it’s admirable when they spend it in ways to help others–. The problem lies in the fact that most of the money donated for “breast cancer research” goes to funding the fundraising efforts. I know everyone’s heart is in the right place, but they’re better off sending the money directly to a research organization.

And I agree that it is not the government’s place to tell us which medical tests to forgo. It is a dangerous president.

By: Jennifer O'Hara

Jennifer O'Hara — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:55:11 +0000

Oh, no, doctors HARDLY know best at all times. You’re talking to someone who was actually kicked out of a specialist’s office over the summer for daring to ask a question, and actually had a doctor tell one of his nurses I was an ‘idiot’ when he thought I couldn’t hear him. Nice one, bucko. That said, for the government to step out and say this, setting it as THE standard for health care, is frightening, particularly considering the power they’re about to steal. People need to know their own bodies and take care of their own health, and that means being personally knowledgeable and proactive.

There is a lot of press for breast cancer & heart disease; I suppose because they affect so many it’s easy to get research money for them. If people choose to give, that is fine with me.

By: Cassandra

Cassandra — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:17:56 +0000

Well, I think that breast cancer is highly over discuused. Yes, I know women suffer from it. My mother’s cousin, who is more of an aunt to me, survived it. I get that it is a very real problem. More people die from a lot of other forms of cancer that no one goes on 3 day walk-athons for. I certainly don’t need or want the government to waste their time, and my money telling us how to manage our health. I don’t think the message is wrong here, just the messenger. As a birth and breastfeeding advocate, I know that women who don’t breastfeed have a higher risk of Ductal Carcinoma in Situ which is hard to detect without the use of a mammogram. However, if you breastfed a baby you are REALLY unlikely to have that problem. If you didn’t nurse, then that mammogram is pretty important, no matter what the government says.

While I believe that people need to rely less on doctors and this “doctor knows best” mentality, I am definitely not okay with the government deciding that they know better than doctors.

By: Laura J.

Laura J. — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:15:15 +0000

Adult beverage of choice … I agree with you, and with everything else you wrote … honestly, I’m surprised they let this bit of information slip out before their precious bill was signed into law. Hopefully Americans will see this for what it is and what they can expect from Obamacare.