Update on Dori's Journey 'Home'...
By: Diane Sori
As I knew would happen, the 'end of life' agency pulled out its aides
and nurses. They did leave the equipment and said they'd check back from time to time (once a week or so) to see if there's a change for the worse to warrant reinstating said services. Their timetable for someone with stage 4 glioblastoma...brain cancer...is a joke as Dori's condition changes by the hour...some hours are semi-OK and some hours are hell and then go back to semi-OK again.
So now her husband has to pay for aides and nurses out of his own pocket and this type of service is anything but cheap.
Welcome to the new insurance rules and ObamaCare guidelines for the terminally ill and those on the verge of dying....they're as vile and inhumane as the man whose name ObamaCare bares.
It saddens me to hear stories like that of Dori. It would seem Obamacare has not helped people like Dori. I too have to fork out for doctor care. I have insurance, but it only covers a certain percentage of the cost. However, Dori’s case is much more severe than mine. I knew a man with brain cancer and it was terrible.
ReplyDeleteI’m 58 now…when I was a lad, things were so much better then. When one went to the doctor, the visit would cost about 20 dollars or so, sometimes less. Things were better because the doctors didn’t try to rip people off. Healthcare has turned into a bureaucratic mess without the compassion. Sadly the medical people, hospitals, and drug companies are in it for the profit; and also the insurance companies (who I hate the worst.)
My dad and grandmother recently passed away. The only thing that I see positive is that they don’t have to suffer in this life anymore. I had a friend pass away about six months ago with complications from diabetes; he questioned whether there was a God.
His question…which I could not answer…is why all the suffering? Being a Mormon (albeit inactive) and raised a Mormon, they would answer the question like this: The reason we suffer is because we need to know what it is to suffer. We need to understand the difference between joy and sorrow.
When we leave this world, the only thing we will take with us is the knowledge we gained in this life. For some reason, we need to know the difference between good and bad, joy and sorrow, pain and good health (and make choices understanding what pain and sorrow are.)
Jesus Christ asked the father to take the bitter cup from him, but he had to complete his mission. According to some beliefs, there is a purpose to this life…and part of it is just learning the difference between joy and sorrow. I think most humans get the message! Whether they be believers or non-believers, most will understand the difference between joy and sorrow once this life’s journey is over.
I could give other reasons why the church says we are here, but as for my friend who died, he didn’t buy the knowledge thing; he was an atheist…and I understand where he was coming from. Some even believe there was a pre-mortal existence, and we chose our obstacles; and those obstacles help to make us stronger people. I would imagine people living during the depression (my dad) understood what an empty stomach felt like. If they suffered like that, they would have compassion on their friends who suffer too!
Again, I’m sorry to hear about your friend.
Diane,
ReplyDeleteFirst, I'm very sorry to hear of your friend's condition.
I do, however, find it despicable that you're using her condition to further your propaganda attack. The ACA (Obamacare) doesn't restrict palliative care, in fact the ACA expands access to palliative care.
Here, from the American Brain Tumor Association's website: (http://www.abta.org/brain-tumor-treatment/brain-tumor-support/affordable-care-act-information.html)
"19. Will hospice be offered through plans offered in the exchange?
The Affordable Care Act establishes palliative care as an essential health benefit that must be covered by all insurance plans offered in the United States. But each state can decide how to meet this requirement and how, or if, hospice services will be a covered service."
Diane, please get your facts straight. What's your beef with the ACA? Did you like it better when the insurer could have just dropped your friend's coverage because they didn't want to treat her anymore? How about when cancer patients couldn't get insurance because their cancer was a pre-existing condition? You're on the wrong side of this, you really really are.
FYI, I am experiencing the monstrosity known as ObamaCare in action...death panels and all...and watched as they canceled and pulled out the aids and nurses for my dying stage 4 brain cancer, given 2 to 6 weeks of life left, friend. You can quote whatever shit you want in favor of ObamaCare but words on paper are NOT words in action...period. Guess you took your comment from Harry Reid's playbook. And BTW, how's that "you can keep your health plan and doctor" working out for you. The list of lies in ObamaCare is far too long to mention in a mere comment....and when you stop hiding behind ;anonymous' maybe then what you say might have a modicum of credibility.
DeleteAnd oh YES, my friend wants others to know the hell she is going through so others don't have to...so keep your liberal, Obama ass-kissing to yourself and off my blog.
DeleteI've read there are lots of things wrong with "O"care. A man underwent major surgery recently and was stuck with a 400,000 dollar bill (he was supposed to be on O care, but the O care company still has it's head where the sun doesn't shine and hasn't paid the bill! People who work for a living and were dropped from their old coverage are spending up to about 800 dollars per month for the new healthcare (hardly affordable except for the 1% like Obama - whose coverage is much better under a government plan.) If O care were so good, why do the senators exempt their staff from getting O care; why don't the senators mandate they use O care as well? The only people who benefit are welfare people who got Medicaid anyway (for free).
ReplyDeleteSomething needs to be done about healthcare, but a democrat solution is not the way. It breeds leeches. LBJ started the war on poverty that still is going on today. Women are having babies and expecting state governments to pay for it.
You can put lipstick on a pig, but it is still a pig. O care is a liberal attempt to take over health care. However, since it is really just an insurance company, they don't give a rat's ass about the patient; they care about their profits. Here is a good link if Diane will permit it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bavou_SEj1E . It is on youtube and it is an eye-opener! This is the kind of thinking that breeds dependence on government…and everybody pays. I bet when she goes to the doctor nobody but the taxpayers pay.
Sure I'll allow it.
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