The American Healthcare System Saves Lives
June 26, 2012 at 4:51 pm in News, Obamacare Impact Stories by Tea Party Patriots 4 Comments
Here is a story from Lynda in North Carolina. This is the latest in our series “Obamacare Impact: Affecting the Lives of Ordinary Americans.”
Watching family members and their journey through cancer can be extremely difficult. Lynda experienced it twice with her father and mother-in-law.
Lynda’s father underwent regular PSA tests. Seven years ago there was a slight rise in the test results, which led to more frequent testing. Through vigilant monitoring, doctors were able to detect the cancer early. 
“When his prostate cancer was diagnosed, it was the most aggressive form of prostate cancer, not the “wait-and-see” type. His treatment was very aggressive and saved his life. Thank God, and thank the American system of medicine for using PSA tests.”
Lynda’s father has been cancer-free for 5 years now, but that may not have been the case under the new Affordable Care Act. In section 2713 of the Affordable Care Act, it stipulates that a group health plan and a health insurance issuer offering group/individual health insurance coverage provide benefits for and prohibit the imposition of cost-sharing requirements with respect to: “Evidence-based items or services that have in effect a rating of A or B in the current recommendations of the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF).”
Here’s the catch: Per the Task Force final recommendation in May 2012, it gives PSA-screening a D rating, stating it “recommends against PSA-based screening for prostate cancer.” The same controversy arose with mammogram screenings, where it was originally stated that screening would begin at the age of 50. Lynda, who’s mother-in-law survived breast cancer through early detection, doesn’t’ agree.
“My mother-in-law caught her breast cancer early through screening. The breast cancer had already progressed into her lymph nodes, which could have spread rapidly from there. But instead – early detection and aggressive treatment saved her. She is a cancer survivor for 19 years now with no recurrences. The American system saves lives.”
Yes, our country’s great medical advances and preventative measures do saves lives, and let’s hope that government regulation doesn’t interfere with that.
– Lynda from Maggie Valley, North Carolina
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50 million Americans do not have health care.
46,000 of our citizens die each year from lack of health care.
We should hold these truths to be self-evident.
Health care should be a fundamental unalienable Right for all citizens.
The health of a nation should not be a commodity to be bought or sold.
Without health there can be no Life.
Without health there can be no Liberty.
Without health there can be no pursuit of happiness.
“When it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want; the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, there may that country boast its Constitution and its Government”
― Thomas Paine, Rights Of Man
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Jim,
I do not disagree that the American Healthcare system needs to be reformed. However, the fact remains that in this article both of these patients would most likely have died without the treatments they were given, treatments which the Affordable Care Act has severely limited at best. Yes, we have a need for healthcare reform in the America, but to have it forced upon us by the government, that, sir, is not Liberty. To have a law enacted that makes it so that small business owners have to choose between hiring the help they need or staying in business? Does that really solve the problem? No sir, it does not, but it does move this country “one giant leap” closer to socialism, in an era where we are already far too close to that mark as it is. Yes, we need reform, but The Affordable Care Act is just not the way to bring about that reform. Factor in the matter of our already struggling economy, even if it was a good plan, there is no way that we as a nation can afford this.
My wife died on 10/06/11 of cancer,and she had medicaid for insurance. During one of her chemo treatment she said, you know, ever since I had cancer,you can see who has the better insurance,Just wait and see how people like Obamacare if it passes. I never really payed any attention, so I stared watching and talking to different people that had cancer,and sure enough the people on medicaid and medicare got half the treament other people got with their insurance.
I’m a member,why the HELL do I have to have my comment moderated