tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3235679145814825223.post7199024785486886694..comments2024-03-29T00:17:09.042-07:00Comments on Nevada Progressive: Sharrontology's War on Breast Cancer Survivorsatdnexthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18339904136472258194noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3235679145814825223.post-1704906306190412562010-10-18T14:04:11.207-07:002010-10-18T14:04:11.207-07:00I am surprised that you don't seem to realize ...I am surprised that you don't seem to realize that allowing the government to dictate mandatory coverage increases the cost of health insurance for everyone. If it makes insurance more expensive, it will discourage or even prevent some people from getting health insurance, or increase the cost to the public, if mandated as a tax-supported requirement.<br /><br />If you have objective data on this issue, rather than subjective comments without any foundation, it would strengthen your position. <br /><br />By the way, my wife is a 25 year breast cancer survivor, and I am fully supportive of breast cancer screening for women, where and when appropriate. However, if you mandate the coverage, that means that my insurance as a male will cost more without any option to delete it if I don't want or need that specific coverage. n I am already forced to pay for Medicare part D coverage in spite of the fact that 1) I don't take any prescription drugs, and 2) if I did want a prescription for a condition that I can treat with OTC medications, they are not covered under any of the health insurance plans that I can find.<br /><br />However, the information at http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/screening/breast/Patient/page4 shows that there are significant issues of increasing the risk of breast cancer associated with the screening tests themselves. <br /><br />Can you not see that universal mandates would increase the incidence of screenings that may not be necessary or appropriate?<br /><br />The decision for screening should be between the patient and her doctor, and changing the cost structure to affect that decision without considering the impact is unsound public policy in my view. I suspect that your bias against Sharron Angle is political rather than purely medical.SierraWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05004730174475832185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3235679145814825223.post-23458282717100025122010-10-02T22:03:02.192-07:002010-10-02T22:03:02.192-07:00Thanks so much for your support on this issue. It&...Thanks so much for your support on this issue. It's time we exposed Angle for the cynical anti-woman opportunist that she is.<br /><br />-mavenladybirdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02587563245371760334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3235679145814825223.post-86090746083831540722010-09-30T15:39:33.883-07:002010-09-30T15:39:33.883-07:00Interesting, this...I plowed through lists of the ...Interesting, this...I plowed through lists of the bills for which Assemblywoman Angle was the primary sponsor (1999-2005) and could not find a bill, other than AB 425 (2001) that directly addressed the issue of mandated coverage. This bill would have allowed local Chambers of Commerce to form local pools (albeit ones with precious little leverage)for employer sponsored health insurance plans. http://bit.ly/d0vB1P<br /><br />The coverage to be offered by these plans would most likely have been minimal. A cynical rendition of the insurance corporation's position might be that they don't want to cover preventative and early detection procedures and tests, nor do they want to offer coverage for extended treatments (witness the abuse of rescission clauses). In fact they seem to want to cover only the healthy and wealthy who will not add to their medical loss ratio.<br /><br />The real bottom line may be that health insurance corporations are not all that upset about coverage mandates, nor about mandated insurance purchases -- What they are upset over is that ACA requires that 85% of the premium revenue be used to PAY for the treatment policy holders thought was covered in the policies they bought.Desert Beaconhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02005950397571592827noreply@blogger.com