The Health Care Law.

[Stephanie739]

Where does it stop? Are you willing to pay some player's condoms? How about STD testing for ladies of the night?

I'm really having a hard time seeing the screen this late at night. How about an eye appointment? Or would you rather take care of your's and let me take care of mine?

I would prefer to take care of my own health care needs. I believe God has given us the proper foods and herbs to live a long healthy life. If I do break a bone, etc. I would prefer an urgent care center operated on a financial scale basis.

 

[Stephanie739]

The best birth control is abstinence. It would be nice if my insurance paid for condoms. Also you should not force an insurance company to pay for certain things.

Condoms are over the counter. Most forms of birth control for women require a prescription and doctors visit. Abstinence, unless planning a family, may be the holy way, but if this country is going to function properly we need to accept reality and act accordingly to produce the best results. Moral grievances about birth control aren't as important as preventing unwanted pregnancy. Birth control is a small cost to absorb when compared to prenatal, birth, and child care for an unplanned pregnancy.

 

[Stephanie739]

Legal prostitution reduces STD's as well. Everyone is mis-using health care. The bill wasn't for health care it was for health insurance.

Yes and it should be legal for consenting adults.

 

[Stephanie739]

Sorry, I did not read your links, but I don't think that we do pregnant women much justice in this country. Just out of my own I interest, I have read up on how other countries compare when it comes to managing pregnancy. For instance, I find it fascinating that in many places obstetricians only exist to be seen by those, who truly are high risk pregnancies. Otherwise, they see a midwife or family doctor. Obstetricians are highly trained specialists. Why has it become so normalized for a healthy woman to see an obstetrician? Would you see a cardiologist for a normal check up? No, but pregnancy is big business. Pregnancy is a completely normal function of a woman's body. So unless some true medical need arises then I don't get why we are seeing expensive specialists. In Finland (I believe), a midwife is so highly prized that if one of their patients becomes high risk and, therefore, needs to see an obstetrician, the midwife attends every appointment to be sure that the woman's true needs are met correctly.
A midwife has been trained similarly to a family physician in that they see a pregnancy as a normal part of a woman's life. Her body was made for this. Now, of course, there are women who truly need to see an OB for good reason, but many of us do not. C- Sections are big business. And not surprising is their alarming rate in this country. Midwives and family doctors have a much lower fee for pregnancy care and delivery. It does not mean they are less qualified. I have saw an OB with my first and midwives with my second and third babies. The care I received from midwives was absolutely outstanding. The OB ran unnecessary tests, urged me to take pain meds (that I about had to fight with her about while in labor), and just did not believe that my body was designed to do this without her intervention. I proved her wrong. Simply put the model of care is so vastly different from one another and does equate to big differences in the billing aspect of it all, too.
Sooo off topic from your point, but your post reminded me of this.

This is right on topic. Great post!

 

[Stephanie739]

The best birth control is abstinence. It would be nice if my insurance paid for condoms. Also you should not force an insurance company to pay for certain things.

Insurance willingly pays for such things if that is what the customers want.

 

[chickened]

Hey at least Barack wants to make sure people have access to birth control via health care reform.

People already have access to birth control... keep your pants on.

 

[Stephanie739]

People already have access to birth control... keep your pants on.

yay! great advice. im sure thats all we need to do is tell women and girls to keep their pants on

They probably just don't know that removing their pants might make a baby...

Of course aggressive men also just need to be told to keep their pants on. This concept should have been figured out before we had an epidemic of unplanned pregnancy.

 

[chickened]

Well Hemet Dennis, health care reform requires that everyone purchase their own insurance or be fined if they don't. It is the insurance companies who will be paying for birth control, not you silly

Insurance companies already pay for such things whether you want them to or not. And pharmaceutical companies make too much money from keeping people on their drugs...

Why is it it is always the other guy that makes too much money?

 

[chickened]

I looked it up. What out of the hundreds of articles would you like me to examine? I did find this comment in one article: "Of the 17,000 or 18,000 cases that were adjudicated in the first Pigford settlement, only three were found to be marginally questionable" But you are so cryptic I can't tell what your particular beef is here. How about a link or something?

However, your comments about Obama and abortion are and always will be silly to me - I just can't take you seriously when you say things like that. Is there some "I like to abort babies!" speech Obama has given that I missed out on? Please - if you are going to say that he supports abortions because he supports a womans right to choose or birth control access, don't bother.

Seems the woman's right to choose in regards to any health care decision just got limited even more.

 

[Stephanie739]

Why is it it is always the other guy that makes too much money?

I give as little support to the pharmaceutical companies as possible. If you think thousands of dollars of months in prescription pills is acceptable, to each his own. I believe much of the pharmaceutical industry is a scam and it increases health care cost.