Local family woman denied life saving drugs previously covered!

[JLM]

https://www.pqbnews.com/news/b-c-women-still-battling-for-medication-coverage/


This is happening in an area with a population of over 50,000 people. If a movement was started to fork over the premiums for a year for starters, I wouldn't object to contributing a couple of bucks. This story has been bothering me ever since it was first aired. One thing that is needed is a well connected person of integrity to take charge. Let's not allow this woman to die.

 

[taxslave]

$250 000 a year is an awfull lot of taxpayers money to spend on just one person. Just sayin.

 

[JLM]

$250 000 a year is an awfull lot of taxpayers money to spend on just one person. Just sayin.

Until you consider what the loss is going to cost to raise those kids and treat possible mental conditions. How much money do we spend a year on people like Schoenburg? Maybe if a collection were to be taken up we might be surprised at the amount of the donations.


Actually it would be money spent on an entire family.

 

[TenPenny]

Well, you should be willing to donate 30 or 40% of your pension income.

 

[JLM]

Well, you should be willing to donate 30 or 40% of your pension income.

Before I did anything I might find out how much of it the Gov't is willing to cover. Could you please show your math work showing how you came up with 30-40% - since you didn't come up with a definite amount, I suspect you did very little.

 

[TenPenny]

Before I did anything I might find out how much of it the Gov't is willing to cover. Could you please show your math work showing how you came up with 30-40% - since you didn't come up with a definite amount, I suspect you did very little.

So, you're not willing to put up your money, you want to take the taxpayer first.


Typical.

 

[darkbeaver]

So, you're not willing to put up your money, you want to take the taxpayer first.


Typical.

He's abusing taxpayers, I've harboured suspicions but never imagined he'd be exposed likeyou just did.

 

[mentalfloss]

JLM finally realizing the significance of a community?

Stop the press.

 

[MHz]

$250 000 a year is an awfull lot of taxpayers money to spend on just one person. Just sayin.

They still would deny her the meds to go out peacefully, instead they would watch a long painful death and take notes all along the way. I thought you should consider that. New national sport, only the ones who get a certain amount of votes from their neighbors get the drugs. Let's start the test in your neighborhood.

So, you're not willing to put up your money, you want to take the taxpayer first.


Typical.

The price of the chemicals in the drug is probably on worth a few pennies per dose and the rest of the money goes into the pockets of the shareholders of the companies that made the drug originally. Everything seems do be incurable these days but there is always a new drug out that will keep it in check until the day you die many decades in the future. Really, use that as a movie script and it is a worse plot than you could find in the '50's b movies.

Perhaps the money spent on getting a closeup picture of Pluto could be used to find a cure for some of the many, many diseases. Should the drugs cease to be manufactured on a national level how many would die in North America in the 1st year alone. Phage medicine can be on a local level or a national level as far as how many viruses are kept on ice locally and on a national level the identification of a new bacteria would already have the proper virus to use for it's destruction. That is all you need to eliminate the threat to health that bacterial creates. If we kill off the natural viruses then you have just invented a new super-bug that requires an expensive patch. Phage is the term used to describe that whole process. It is too effective and too cheap for our medical industry to make use of it. They want a sick population rather than a healthy one.

 

[JLM]

So, you're not willing to put up your money, you want to take the taxpayer first.


Typical.

I think you missed reading the O.P.

So, you're not willing to put up your money, you want to take the taxpayer first.


Typical.

Mea Culpa- It was actually the Insurance Co. that reneged.

So, you're not willing to put up your money, you want to take the taxpayer first.


Typical.

When you get around to reading the O.P. you'll find I said I'd contribute "a couple of bucks".

 

[Nanoose]

I can't go to the link because I use an old Mac anyway I'm wondering if the denial of life saving drugs has anything to do with something Trump did or is it because of Obama care. Cheers!

 

[gerryh]

I can't go to the link because I use an old Mac anyway I'm wondering if the denial of life saving drugs has anything to do with something Trump did or is it because of Obama care. Cheers!

It has nothing to do with either one. The whole world doesn't revolve around fu cking americans.

 

[JLM]

So, you're not willing to put up your money, you want to take the taxpayer first.


Typical.

So you just think the young mother should be told that she is going to die! Denying her coverage is tantamount to condemning her to a death sentence!

He's abusing taxpayers, I've harboured suspicions but never imagined he'd be exposed likeyou just did.

Exposing what? Sticking up for the under dog?

 

[Dixie Cup]

I wonder if she (or her family) has approached the drug manufacturer and appealed to them to get a better price or even to get it free. Often times on US TV you ll find when a particular drug is advertised at the bottom of the screen it states if you are having financial issues to contact them and they may be able to assist. It wouldn t hurt. I m sure that they have tried it but it doesn t say anything in the article so...just wondering. Gofundme might be a good idea but how long would the funds raised last at the price of the bloody drug! It is also bewildering to me why they would fund a drug that is used less often - of course - there s my answer. Never mind.


Dix




UGH - the bloody è !!!! Why does it do that anyway!! I can t use the proper punctuation. Drives me crazy!!

 

[tay]

I can't go to the link because I use an old Mac anyway I'm wondering if the denial of life saving drugs has anything to do with something Trump did or is it because of Obama care. Cheers!

Cheers! WTF!

If you read the article you wouldn't be one of those brain dead people that say cheers to everything.....

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[JLM]

I wonder if she (or her family) has approached the drug manufacturer and appealed to them to get a better price or even to get it free. Often times on US TV you ll find when a particular drug is advertised at the bottom of the screen it states if you are having financial issues to contact them and they may be able to assist. It wouldn t hurt. I m sure that they have tried it but it doesn t say anything in the article so...just wondering. Gofundme might be a good idea but how long would the funds raised last at the price of the bloody drug! It is also bewildering to me why they would fund a drug that is used less often - of course - there s my answer. Never mind.


Dix




UGH - the bloody è !!!! Why does it do that anyway!! I can t use the proper punctuation. Drives me crazy!!

Good response, Dixie and definitely worth a try. I think some who responded think I have some ulterior motive...............I don't! I think if everyone who feels as I do would throw in $5 the poor woman could have coverage for a year.
As for your key board problem I have it too, periodically and there is a scientific reason for it that I don't recall and there is a quick fix that I also don't recall, but if you just reboot your computer that works. Please continue with your sensible posts.

 

[gerryh]

Ctrl-shift

 

[MHz]

Good response, Dixie and definitely worth a try.

Has it ever worked for somebody? I'm thinking not or it would have been published and created a mountain of requests.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/st...s-annually-linked-to-lack-of-health-coverage/
Nearly 45,000 annual deaths are associated with lack of health insurance, according to a new study published online today by the American Journal of Public Health. That figure is about two and a half times higher than an estimate from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2002.
The study, conducted at Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Health Alliance, found that uninsured, working-age Americans have a 40 percent higher risk of death than their privately insured counterparts, up from a 25 percent excess death rate found in 1993.
“The uninsured have a higher risk of death when compared to the privately insured, even after taking into account socioeconomics, health behaviors, and baseline health,” said lead author Andrew Wilper, M.D., who currently teaches at the University of Washington School of Medicine. “We doctors have many new ways to prevent deaths from hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease — but only if patients can get into our offices and afford their medications.”
The study, which analyzed data from national surveys carried out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), assessed death rates after taking into account education, income, and many other factors, including smoking, drinking, and obesity. It estimated that lack of health insurance causes 44,789 excess deaths annually.
Previous estimates from the IOM and others had put that figure near 18,000. The methods used in the current study were similar to those employed by the IOM in 2002, which in turn were based on a pioneering 1993 study of health insurance and mortality.

 

[JLM]

Ctrl-shift

The thought did cross my mind that you would help out.

 

[MHz]

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/cystic-fibrosis/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20353706

The goals of treatment include:

• Preventing and controlling infections that occur in the lungs
• Removing and loosening mucus from the lungs
• Treating and preventing intestinal blockage
• Providing adequate nutrition

Medications

The options may include:

• Antibiotics to treat and prevent lung infections
• Anti-inflammatory medications to lessen swelling in the airways in your lungs
• Mucus-thinning drugs to help you cough up the mucus, which can improve lung function
• Inhaled medications called bronchodilators that can help keep your airways open by relaxing the muscles around your bronchial tubes
• Oral pancreatic enzymes to help your digestive tract absorb nutrients

I suggest this woman and any with a similar ailment start looking at alternative treatments they can administer by themselves.


That would include ozone at low levels for an extended period of time. 2-5 years.

Borax, 1 tspoon/litre of water and take 7 tspoons 2x per day. 30 days and then 3 months at maintenance dose and then back to 7 if the symptoms return.

3% hydrogen peroxide with come borax dissolved in it and delivered to the back of the throat in a mist form that is inhaled as deeply as possible. The life you save could be your own


If big pharma is your only option make sure you fill out your will early in life. They have a different agenda and it has nothing to do with keeping surfs in good health.

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