Midcan5's Blog

As I watch MSM's gnashing of teeth and whining over the ACA, as I watch republicans whine about the ACA, I wonder.... Why is there so little information about the positives of the ACA? Why is there little news on the people in America who need healthcare? Why is there no news on the states that are doing a good job implementing the ACA? Why is there no investigation into why insurers and others are opposed to the ACA? Why is affordable healthcare for all Americans not a priority instead of an impossibility? When did America become the 'can't do' nation? When did any news agency or republican take note before October 2013 of insurers dropping Americans from healthcare or raising rates constantly? When was the last time a news source reported on Americans whose coverage was dropped or failed to cover their health condition prior to October 2013? OK, I repeat myself. How is it our healthcare ranks 37th in world and we aren't embarrassed as a nation? Why is ...

"If Nikki White had been a resident of any other rich country, she would be alive today." "Around the time she graduated from college, Monique A. "Nikki" White contracted systemic lupus erythematosus; that's a serious disease, but one that modern medicine knows how to manage. If this bright, feisty, dazzling young woman had lived in, say, Japan - the world's second - richest nation - or Germany (third richest), or Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Canada, Sweden, etc., the health care systems there would have given her the standard treatment for lupus, and she could have lived a normal life span. But Nikki White was a citizen of the world's richest country, the United States of America. Once she was sick, she couldn't get health insurance. Like tens of millions of her fellow Americans, she had too much money to qualify for health care under welfare, but too little money to pay for the drugs and doctors she needed to stay alive. She spent the last...