Joined: 04 Apr 2006 Posts: 7 Location: Washington, DC
New Legislation Detrimental to Pregnant Women Posted: 04-05-06 13:05pm
A new bill about to be voted on in the
senate called himma (the health insurance
marketplace modernization and
affordability act) will override state
guidelines that make insurance companies
provide coverage for pre-natal care,
maternity care, etc.
Call your senators people or this will
soon be a reality and you may find
yourself paying out of pocket thousands to
have a baby.
What can we do to prevent this?
You can find who your senator's are and
what their office numbers, emails,
addresses are by going to this american
cancer society page http://capwiz.Com/acs-natio
nal/home/
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AlliE_18
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 20 Dec 2005 Posts: 2129 Location: uk
Posted: 04-05-06 16:58pm
Well you could move to the uk where its
free!! Or australia?
Haha sorry couldnt stop myself, I know im
lucky to live here though... Go .T.O.N.Y.
B.L.A.I.R woot !
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Linzee87
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 04 Jul 2005 Posts: 33 Location: UK
Posted: 04-05-06 17:12pm
L.O.L!
Go .U.K!
No doubt we'll soon be following suit tho!
:roll:
xx
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kirztensmummy
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 326 Location: london
Posted: 04-05-06 17:44pm
allie_18
wrote:
well you could move to the
uk where its free!! Or australia?
Haha sorry couldnt stop myself, I know im
lucky to live here though... Go
.T.O.N.Y. B.L.A.I.R woot
!
lol yayyyy for nhs :d
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lil_blaze2004
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Posted: 04-05-06 20:01pm
It's free in canada too!!
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healthE
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 04 Apr 2006 Posts: 7 Location: Washington, DC
Posted: 04-06-06 11:48am
I have some issues with the uk system too
though b/c of that whole waiting list
thing. My boyfriend's uncle had cancer
and I think he would have gone into
remission in the us, but in the uk for
every procedure he would have to put his
name on a list and wait and wait for care.
Very innefficient.
But as for the enzi bill, the most
frightening aspect for me is that it
doesn't make it mandatory that insurance
covers pre-cancer screeings. I have
cancer in my family and, therefore, need
to get screened.
Also, don't mess with maternity or
pre-natal coverage people. As we all
know..It is beyond needed.
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Sunflower_pie81
Especially EHEALTHy
Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 5041 Location: to hell with this crap
Posted: 04-06-06 12:23pm
I don't know how they can do that for
real. I went into the hospital for three
weeks and my bills were like 900,000.00
for me alone and for my baby it was like
250,000.00 and that was only for three
days. I don't see that many people
having babies after that. Good greif.
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sandyallen
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 4580
Posted: 04-06-06 12:58pm
Healthe, you are soooo right, they should
pay for pre-screening of anything, after
all, it is cheaper to pay for the
pre-sceening of it then to pay ffor the
disease. It sounds like politics to me,
we are humans, not just a number and we
have wrights, especially if we have worked
for them.
Some of our hospitals here look like a
welfare motel, regular people cannot
afford toget sick anddd go to the hosptal
unless they have oodles of insurance ase
are too busy paying for welfare and the
illegals coming in speaking no english.
Something must be done! When I had a
stroke, I wouldnot go. I knew what was
going on and what I had to do so ijust
went to the dr the next day and told him,
I am just glad that I have a medical back
ground. To see all of these drugies
running up to get their drug fix because
it is free is what angers me off! But
thank you for allowing me to vent. I do
realize thei are some people that need
some assistance but some of these people
take advantage of the situation.
Sandralynn-wow how can they do that? I
mean knowing that youre pregnant and then
just cut off your prenatal care in april?
That seems insane to me. Is there a way
to like reapply or extend it?
Ugh well I would try to talk to (im
assuming you went to some sort of family
care center to apply for medicaid) a
health benefits person that you prob
originally talked to when you started this
process...Maybe they can arrange
something. I cant imagine being pregnant
and not having any sort if insurance.
Im worried about my baby insurance
though...Right now im covered by my
parents until im 23, but the baby wont be
so I had to apply for kidcare (program
started by blagoyavich) and still havent
heard anything-its been a month...
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lil_blaze2004
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Joined: 29 Oct 2004 Posts: 6492 Location: ,
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Posted: 04-06-06 18:54pm
It's ridiculous. We have medicare cards
here in quebec that are issued at birth
and you show them to the doc when you go
and they scan it and that's it!
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healthE
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 04 Apr 2006 Posts: 7 Location: Washington, DC
Posted: 04-07-06 09:44am
Whoa! 90 days you have to wait and
you're pregnant? I am so sad for you.
You are all right. This system is simply
a mess and now this bill (s.1955) will
make it even messier, taking away even
more coverage and leaving many more in the
situation that sandralynn and her husband
find themselves now.
I mean, come on...Who has that type of
money to spend out of pocket? One major
health problem or accident could cause
financial ruin.
You all should really shoot emails or
phone calls to you representatives.
Don't underestimate the power of your
voices.
Sandra-you may want to see if your
representative can secure you some short
term coverage also.
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diamondsz
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 07 Oct 2005 Posts: 3173 Location: , Candyland-Canada
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Posted: 04-07-06 11:00am
healthe
wrote:
whoa! 90 days you have
to wait and you're pregnant? I am so
sad for you. You are all right.
This system is simply a mess and now this
bill (s.1955) will make it even messier,
taking away even more coverage and leaving
many more in the situation that sandralynn
and her husband find themselves now.
I mean, come on...Who has that type of
money to spend out of pocket? One
major health problem or accident could
cause financial ruin.
You all should really shoot emails or
phone calls to you representatives.
Don't underestimate the power of your
voices.
Sandra-you may want to see if your
representative can secure you some short
term coverage also.
to be honest they are screwing themselves
up ppl will start having less and less
children (the states are extremly hard on
immigration) the population will die and
the economy will slowly perish as it has
been already. Honestly all of you just
move here to canada you pay more taxes but
you get free healthcare lol!
I dont think it is fair but life never is
but like I said they are putting
themsleves in a really bad sitiuation and
are walking there own graves not thinking
of the children of the future!
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