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Why should health care be FREE? If you are poor, why should the tax payers pay for your care? Why is everyone entitled to a better life? Please enlighten me. -----Original Message----- From: Parkinson's Information Exchange Network [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Steve Rack Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 8:46 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: as if >Denying treatment, denying choice is already a feature of medical care, >and has been for some time. For-profit insurers are certainly not >averse to piling on the procedures, diagnostics, and drugs for which >they will not pay, meaning that, as always, it's the very rich who can >get the best that medicine has to offer, anywhere in the world, while >the rest of us figure out what we will forego in order to, let's say, >continue to take brand name Sinemet when our coverage is limited to >generics. (And for many, all assertions to the contrary, there IS a >difference between the two.) Or perhaps we wake up from a colonoscopy >to find that a preventive exam turned into something else, something >not covered, when a suspicious polyp was removed while we were unconscious. > >Thanks to the new policies under Obama, my 23-year-old nephew is able >to remain on his parents' policy, not stranded without insurance, as my >kids were after college; and my friend with cancer can't be denied >coverage because of her condition. Those are HUGE changes that >positively affect the lives of countless Americans. > >If the Supreme Court undoes the new health care laws, what's the point? >Congress might as well go home. It's what they seem to do best, anyway. > >Kathleen > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kathleen, You have stated this issue clearly and succinctly. Thank you for spreading the word. -- Steve in VT ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn