Comments on: A Post For All Who Call Themselves Prolife

By: Katy-Anne

Katy-Anne — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 06:24:30 +0000

Yes, you are right, both systems are flawed. But at least the socialized system shows actual care for it’s citizens rather than essentially saying “tough luck” to those who cannot afford health care. Leaving people to die because they cannot afford health care isn’t very life-giving.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 02:38:24 +0000

Your point about socialized medicine is interesting. I’ve heard people who have been in both systems argue on both sides of the issue. Some say the socialized systems are horrible, others say they’re amazing. Which basically tells me that they’re flawed, just like ours, and you can have great experiences and horrific ones in the same system.

By: Heather

Heather — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 00:22:45 +0000

Oy! People never cease to amaze me in terrible terrible ways.

By: Katy-Anne

Katy-Anne — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 21:49:41 +0000

I so totally agree with this.

By: Katy-Anne

Katy-Anne — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 21:48:53 +0000

Here in my part of Mississippi, they have Early Steps. However, the worker came and worked with my son, until about two months ago, when she left to go on maternity leave and she told them she wasn’t coming back. They knew for seven months that she was going to be leaving, and have been just too plain lazy to replace her, so now my son gets nothing. They screwed us over. He loved her, and loved the therapy, and now it’s gone, and our county has NOBODY to do this stuff anymore. He will be going to school soon, but because of lack of co-operation from Early Steps the whole process is taking much longer than it has to.

I agree with you in the fact that republican “pro-life” politicians really aren’t as pro-life as they pretend to be. I’m totally pro-life, don’t believe in abortion for any reason. However, pro-life politicians are the ones that fight against socialized health care (which if you look at countries like Australia and the UK is not as bad as what the people in the US who don’t like the idea of socialized medicine are trying to pretend it is), are the ones that are wanting to send young men and women to war (so it’s not ok to let them be killed before birth, but it’s ok to have them killed after they have been born a while).

If these politicians were truly pro-life, they’d fight against abortion, fight for a workable socialized medicine plan, and stop sending people to war.

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Wed, 25 May 2011 04:03:30 +0000

Thank you for posting this. I, too, am disappointed that “pro-life” has become “anti-abortion” instead of what it should be: anti-abortion, anti-euthanasia, anti-death penalty, anti-war when possible, and pro-family.

By: Barb Schoeneberger

Barb Schoeneberger — Sun, 22 May 2011 17:50:53 +0000

It boils down to people looking at “cost” vs. “investment”. When it comes to disabilities at any age, whatever we do to help someone function as well as possible is an investment in the person and underlines the dignity of the human being. We don’t need to see monetary payment from our “investment” because we need to look at what all of us with disabilities contribute to the intangible lives around us.

Our society is more and more divorced from God and so materialistic that unless we all do what we can,it won’t be long before the death panels assign us “useless eaters” a number to be murdered.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Thu, 19 May 2011 23:17:45 +0000

You are right, Trina. If I tried to reiterate previously made points nobody’d read a word I say, because it would go on too long. But since you brought it up, I do feel that it would be a good idea to share why I feel as I do about doctors–we’ve had our share of the unbelievably, amazingly good as well as some bad experiences. The lowdown on that is here: http://kathleenbasi.com/2009/10/28/health-care-hassles/. And I feel it necessary to add that after the first bad experience I share there–the one in which they said “come back tomorrow”–by the time that followup appointment came around, Julianna was in the PICU.

By: Katrina

Katrina — Thu, 19 May 2011 22:06:41 +0000

Now I want to know who that politician is!

By: Katrina

Katrina — Thu, 19 May 2011 22:02:48 +0000

In defense of some doctors – the good ones – your family practice, pediatric, and internal medicine doctors generally make far less than $200,000 meanwhile working 60+ hours per week, only to have the insurance companies come back to them and say “though you’ve billed X amount, we’re only going to pay 2/3 of that”. Nevermind the fact that they can’t bill the service of seeing the patient or talking to a patient on the phone. It’s totally ridiculous! They have to charge that much because it’s completely disproportional to what they will finally get paid.

I hope you have respect for your doctor, who may see you, not prescribe anything nor do a billable procedure, and work through whatever problems you may be having, and then she/he may get a pittance from your insurance company.

On the whole, you are both right, but I felt I needed to defend a shrinking and valuable portion of the population who don’t have the power/time to fight the insurance companies and politicians for a better system.