Thursday, January 5, 2012
The Affordable Care Act
The Affordable Care Act prevents insurance companies from discriminating against women, who pay up to 150 percent more for health care services than men.
New health insurance plans will cover women's preventive services, such as, well-woman visits, mammograms, domestic voilence screening, screening for sexually transmitted dieases, access to FDA-approved birth control, and a host of other service without charges.
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I will be frank in my opinion- the American medical establishment is a complete and utter failure, built on a reliance to cookie-cutter diagnostic guidelines and pharmaceutical force-feeding. I refer to this as “Meat Market” medicine, where the process of treatment has largely become a homogenized and impersonal experience.
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Anything that occurs outside of this cycle is considered suspicious or disruptive.
Doctors are no longer the ones making the decisions that are supposed to benefit your health. That role has been taken over by the insurance companies, who make their “medical” decisions based off of what is more cost-effective to them, rather than what is better for the patient.
It is incredibly disheartening when you are now capable of receiving more adequate and thorough treatment by your pet’s veterinarian than from your own primary care physician. How very sad, but completely grounded in reality.
Modern medical ethics are being swallowed up by the corruption of corporate greed and it is taking us all down with it. Many may disagree with the idea that corporations are at the center of the problem that is plaguing mainstream medicine, but the evidence points nowhere else.
When a nation’s Congress owns stock in the very pharmaceutical companies that are increasingly limiting our access to affordable medicine and organizations dedicated to “public safety” now spend most of their time deceiving the public they are supposed to be protecting, there is something very wrong indeed.
There has to be a change in our current medical establishment if there is ever going to truly be “equal access to care for all”. The conflicts of interest at play in institutions such as the IDSA, CDC and NIH by themselves are enough to scare the hell out of anyone, let alone what is at play behind closed doors in relation to the insurance companies and Big Phrama.
The value of a human life shouldn't ever be measured by whether it is cost-effective or not. Everyone, no matter who they are, deserves access to the best treatments possible and purposefully denying such equal access is a crime!
We are not invisible, We are not going away, We will not be silenced!
Thank yoi, I could not have said it better, I gree !! This data is being compiled.for the new congress.
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