It's Time to Get Real About Obama-Care


Filling up my email inbox are huge numbers of requests from various pro-life organizations to sign petitions which demand removal of abortion from health care.

Very briefly, this is the explanation for an inability to sign on to most of these.

The premise from so many groups is that the problem of the Democrat health care plans will be solved with language removing abortion funding from the bill.

Many people incorrectly assume that removing funding will remove the abortion mandate.  This is not so.  Mothers will be coerced to abort unborn babies with untoward fetal diagnoses in any government run system, because there will be the threat of no health coverage for such kids.  Health care professionals will still be coerced to participate in this and other unethical activity. This is the reality in other socialized medicine systems which lack funding for the care of premature infants, and those with significant congenital disabilities.

Denial of care at other points in development, with respect to early diagnosis using imaging, severe illnesses, and terminal illness, is also a sad reality in other government run health care systems, as well as the one planned for America.


Finally there is the problem of turning over our health care autonomy to an entity which is known to be corrupt.  This is not a smart move.  The control over our health care will be used by the federal government to control other aspects of our lives, including expression of religious beliefs.

Sorry to the pro-life liberals, this pharmacist (whose insights stem from health care experience),  is ethically constrained from signing on to any aspect of the killer-government controlled health care.


~Karen L. Brauer MS, RPh is president of Pharmacists for Life International, the most fully pro-life pharmacists' organization.  Find our politically incorrect site at www.pfli.org, and KB's personal blog at http://themorningafter.us. Pharmacists for Life International truly makes no profit, and all officers and staff are volunteers. 


Via Christian Newswire.

Comments

  1. Right now, our health care is controlled by insurance companies, who routinely deny sick people coverage, raise premiums by as much as 40% even though they are making record profits, restrict preventative care that people need to stay well, and are even willing to drop thousands of healthy people from their rolls in order to lose one very sick person. The current corruption we live under is not acceptable, and to think that expanding health care to cover all Americans means forced abortions and death panels is to display a clear misunderstanding of what is on the table.

    Five years ago, at the age of 24, I was diagnosed with Stage 3 cancer. I lost my insurance but was able to get special insurance for people who insurance companies won't accept, through Washington State. When I was forced to leave the state, I lost that insurance, and as a result I can't afford the yearly scans that I desperately need to have any chance of catching a recurrence of cancer. If my cancer comes back, I have around a 7% chance of living 5 years with treatment. If it isn't caught early, my chances are zero. The current health reform is my only chance to get the care I need to stay alive, and I'm far from the only one.

    Disseminating this kind of misinformation hurts Americans who need health reform today. We don't have "health care autonomy" now. We are under the control of profit-driven insurance companies. The government already controls Medicare, and none of these scenarios have come to pass.

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  2. One more. Did you hear about the lady in Canada who found out she was pregnant, but couldn't get an appointment for 11 months! Gee, I thought a pregnancy lasted 9 months.

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  3. Dear Random,

    First of all, you can go to your state and apply for the "hard to insure" medical assistance that they offer to their residents.

    Second, you may go to any emergency room and by law they cannot refuse you. This is one of the reasons our health care is so expensive. Someone has to pay for all the "freebies" that are given out.

    Third, as far as medicare insurance goes, people are denied all the time.

    Fourth, if you had Obamacare, you would probably be dead by now, waiting for your medical care to be approved by the government if they decided to approve it. If they are going to add all the patients they say needs it and cut costs, how do you think they will control costs? The same way Canada and Great Britain do, by refusing service. In the Anointed One's own words, you would probably be counseled to "take a pill" and be forgotten.

    Fifth, Obamacare is NOT health care, but payback to the abortion industry for the support they gave Obama while he was running for office. Without government prop-ups, the abortion industry would be greatly scaled back, so government-funded abortion and euthanasia are the keystones that he is trying to ram down our throats.

    I don't have time to answer you point by point, but you are obviously very uninformed!

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  4. Random,

    I am sorry to hear about your situation.

    I know others who are facing similar challenges. My own family has been without health insurance for some time; however, most people I know, including myself, don't want the federal government, which embraces a culture of death under our current administration, controlling our lives. We don't want to pay for people murdering our children or our elderly. If Obamacare is so great, then why are none of the politicians covering themselves and their families with it?

    We need authentic health care reform in this country, not death care.

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  5. Some of my patients have lost their lives due to the false claims that the uninsured have no health care available to them.
    Convinced that they have no access, these patients do not seek the available help, and go untreated, until they (for example) run into a pharmacist such as myself who refers them to get care.

    I hold the liars who spread this false information responsible for these unnecessary deaths.
    It is fact that a person can present at our emergency room with no coverage, get treated, have social services try to set them up with medicaid, etc.

    Incidentally, the GOVERNMENT RUN medicare is tops- above all private insurers with respect to DENIED claims.

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  6. You're right -- if you're sick, you can go to the ER and get the treatment you need. Followed by bill after bill that could result in losing your house and any other assets you've worked hard to retain. And social services can't do much if you don't qualify for Medicaid, and don't qualify for disability. If you're lucky, you can get covered through state high-risk pools -- after you've applied for individual insurance, been denied, and make it to the top of the waiting list (California's is at least 4 months). The process can take 6 months or more. Which doesn't help if you need care today.

    Or you go to a free clinic, like I tried to do yesterday after suffering for 10 days from bronchitis, hoping it would go away -- to find they don't accept walk-ins and it would be three weeks before I could get seen. I ended up spending nearly $150 to see a Physician's Assistant at a local urgent care facility and get a prescription for Ammoxicillin -- and now I have to decide which of my regular medications I can survive without to cover that cost.

    So yeah, you're right. If you're sick, ERs and hospitals are required by law to treat you. But they sure as hell won't do it for free. And to a lot of people, it's better to wait and hope you get better, or wait until you can't wait anymore, than take on the kind of debt that's involved.

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  7. Since we have been without health care insurance, I have found that most doctors and medical personnel will work with us. When someone in my family has a medical concern, our doctor will charge us half price for our visits and we usually get seen within a day or two. Remember, medical services are negotiable.

    When we have had to go to the hospital -- which was the case with my dh -- who had severe bronchitis as well as another infection and was in ICU for a few days and had many medical tests done -- the hospital worked with us, so that we made regular payments on the bill. We never lost our house or car and the bill was paid in full.

    We applied for free meds and it has taken a few months to get those, but it was worth all the effort we put into it.

    It's not easy, but it is still possible to get good medical care without health insurance in this country.

    If Obamacare were in place, this wouldn't have been possible. Doctors couldn't adjust their rates, pharmaceutical companies wouldn't be able to send us free meds, hospitals wouldn't be able offer us a payment schedule, set according to what we could afford to pay. Why? Everything would be controlled by the government and many medical services which we currently value now would be denied us by the federal government due to cost controls -- to keep prices of medical care down. The sickest among us would be the worst off, as they have the costliest medical bills. The government would deny these individuals services and let them die. There is no compassion in government run, government controlled medicine.

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  8. Do you understand that the current proposal leaves those basic, day-to-day health care decisions where they are now -- in the hands of insurance companies? If rationing happens, it will be insurance companies, not "the government", that does it -- and they do it now, today. If the mythical "death panels" sound scary (as untrue as those tales are), they have nothing on the real life "death panels" of insurance companies, where the decision of whether or not you or your child receives a lifesaving new treatment for cancer is left in the hands of an insurance company employee who gets bonuses for denying as much costly treatment as possible. You could even lose your insurance, today, from such a claim, if the insurance company decided it was worth it to spend some time researching your medical records and can find any tiny discrepancy that you may have omitted from your insurance application or any forms that you filled out.

    If health reform passes, you won't need to worry about paying hospital bills out of pocket or getting doctors to work with you, because you'll be insured and nearly all of those costs will be covered. It will be just like it is today if you are insured -- except that virtually everyone will be insured.

    I suggest you take a few minutes to actually look at the bill, or at least the summaries (http://dpc.senate.gov/dpcdoc-sen_health_care_bill.cfm) to see what's really in there. What's not: any kind of "public option" that would even approach the government-controlled healthcare that you seem to think is in this bill. What is: many essential measures that give uninsured Americans access to health insurance and healthcare.

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  9. Dear Random, there are other ways around getting prescription medications. One place in town is called "Canada Drug", which gets the same prescriptions from Canada for about 1/2 the price. I have a bottle of Ammoxicillin in our cabinet that a fried purchased for me when he went back to Mexico, just $5 that I use when I feel congestion. I also learned natural remedies, like Elderberry juice, great at keeping colds away.

    Personally, I do not trust the government for anything.

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  10. The most expensive and necessary prescriptions I have to fill are controlled drugs -- currently Methadone and Percocet. We don't have a local "Canada Drug", though I do have a local pharmacy owner working with me so I can afford the medicine, for no other reason than he's a nice guy. Yes, there are ways to get cheaper prescriptions, but the ones I've looked at don't handle controlled pain medicine. And without those drugs I am in so much pain I can't get out of bed, let alone work the 40 hours a week I need to put in to pay the bills. With insurance, I used to be able to get Fentanyl, which treats my pain better than anything I ever tried, for about $20 a month. The out of pocket costs for that form of Fentanyl (Actiq) ran upwards of $4000 a month. Now I'm lucky to be able to afford Percocet and Methadone, which at least take the pain down enough notches that I can get by.

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  11. Random,

    I'm sorry you are in so much pain. I am thankful that God has brought someone into your life to help with the medication. I have had family members who suffered from cancer and I know how devastating it can be.

    God has brought people into my life to help out during difficult times, too, for which I am so thankful.

    I have learned to trust in Him more deeply in these rough times.

    I truly think that Obamacare is not the answer for people like you and me, who currently are without health insurance. It supports abortion, will ration health care, and is evil in many other ways. I have read what has been written about it thus far. It is deceptive and not straightforward. I doubt very much that you would receive better care if the bill passed. I think that you would most likely be in a worse situation than you are now.

    You can learn the truth about Obamacare at our group blog, Catholics against Obamacare http://catholicsagainstobamacare.blogspot.com/

    I will keep you in my prayers.

    God bless you,
    Jean

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  12. P.S. It is the government -- the Obama administration -- that I don't trust. I have known B.O. for several years now and am acutely aware of his history. He is a compulsive liar who is not to be trusted.

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