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thewayneAside from the fly parking itself on Pence's head.
They showed a clip of Trump saying that "All American's" could get the exact same treatment that he got at Walter Reed. And IIRC, he said it would be free.
Let's check that.
Remdesevir. His administration let them get an exclusive on that, and I believe that treatment is now over $10,000 a shot.
The monoclonal antibodies that he got? Is still in trials and only nine people have otherwise gotten the emergency authorization for it. It is very effective, but monoclonal treatments are very expensive. And here's the best part: it's made from stem cells, so it shouldn't be available to any Republican that is against stem cell research.
And the free part? I expect our medical insurance might have a differing opinion on that.
Yeah. Sure.
There was one very big takeaway from the debates, but this has been developing for the entire time Trump has been in office, and that is the Republican desire to destroy the Affordable Care Act and eliminate coverage of pre-existing conditions. Trump has been promising since day 1 that "We're going to replace it with something EVEN BETTER AND CHEAPER!" But nothing has ever been proposed. IT. IS. AN. EMPTY. PROMISE. Which isn't in the least bit surprising. But let's leave that aside. After all, who knew that health care reform was so complicated?
Last week? Maybe the week before, Trump signed an executive order or two saying that he was ordering continued coverage of pre-existing medical conditions. Here's the thing. That does not mean shit. There is no legislation behind it. There is no legislative proposal behind it. It is a completely empty, meaningless gesture. Zero substance. Much like many things that I could compare it to, but I won't.
Meanwhile, the Administration is about to appear before the Supreme Court to try to get the remaining pieces of the Affordable Care Act declared invalid, which will truly destroy coverage of pre-existing conditions.
Do you know who has pre-existing conditions? President Trump. He contracted something called the Novel Coronavirus. So did 7.5 MILLION AMERICANS, of which TWO HUNDRED AND TEN THOUSAND OF THEM HAVE DIED. Well, I guess that last cohort don't have to worry about medical insurance. But those 7,500,000 do. And they're in serious danger of losing it. Not that Typhoid Donald will ever lose his health coverage - he'll have the best in American health protection for the rest of his *life, insert preferred adjective as desired.
The people who will lose their coverage?
People who are diabetic.
Or have high blood pressure.
Or asthma.
Or successfully fought off cancer. Had a heart attack or stroke?
Or who have immune disorders, primary or acquired.
Or any number of other conditions that I can't name, but guaranteed there are lists of.
Congratulations. You're going to die for the DOW.
They showed a clip of Trump saying that "All American's" could get the exact same treatment that he got at Walter Reed. And IIRC, he said it would be free.
Let's check that.
Remdesevir. His administration let them get an exclusive on that, and I believe that treatment is now over $10,000 a shot.
The monoclonal antibodies that he got? Is still in trials and only nine people have otherwise gotten the emergency authorization for it. It is very effective, but monoclonal treatments are very expensive. And here's the best part: it's made from stem cells, so it shouldn't be available to any Republican that is against stem cell research.
And the free part? I expect our medical insurance might have a differing opinion on that.
Yeah. Sure.
There was one very big takeaway from the debates, but this has been developing for the entire time Trump has been in office, and that is the Republican desire to destroy the Affordable Care Act and eliminate coverage of pre-existing conditions. Trump has been promising since day 1 that "We're going to replace it with something EVEN BETTER AND CHEAPER!" But nothing has ever been proposed. IT. IS. AN. EMPTY. PROMISE. Which isn't in the least bit surprising. But let's leave that aside. After all, who knew that health care reform was so complicated?
Last week? Maybe the week before, Trump signed an executive order or two saying that he was ordering continued coverage of pre-existing medical conditions. Here's the thing. That does not mean shit. There is no legislation behind it. There is no legislative proposal behind it. It is a completely empty, meaningless gesture. Zero substance. Much like many things that I could compare it to, but I won't.
Meanwhile, the Administration is about to appear before the Supreme Court to try to get the remaining pieces of the Affordable Care Act declared invalid, which will truly destroy coverage of pre-existing conditions.
Do you know who has pre-existing conditions? President Trump. He contracted something called the Novel Coronavirus. So did 7.5 MILLION AMERICANS, of which TWO HUNDRED AND TEN THOUSAND OF THEM HAVE DIED. Well, I guess that last cohort don't have to worry about medical insurance. But those 7,500,000 do. And they're in serious danger of losing it. Not that Typhoid Donald will ever lose his health coverage - he'll have the best in American health protection for the rest of his *life, insert preferred adjective as desired.
The people who will lose their coverage?
People who are diabetic.
Or have high blood pressure.
Or asthma.
Or successfully fought off cancer. Had a heart attack or stroke?
Or who have immune disorders, primary or acquired.
Or any number of other conditions that I can't name, but guaranteed there are lists of.
Congratulations. You're going to die for the DOW.
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Date: 2020-10-08 08:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-10-08 09:46 pm (UTC)And that article is dated three years ago. SMH Irregular periods, so I've heard, could be classed as a pre-existing condition. I've yet to hear of a woman who had regular periods. So let's just automatically disqualify more than half the population.
One of my wife's brothers had a child born with a heart problem, IIRC, that required surgery. The insurance company didn't want to pay, calling it a pre-existing condition. SHE WASN'T A PRE-EXISTING PERSON! He finally won the argument - after the threat of bringing in the press - and the operation was performed. It helps to be married to the daughter of Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric.
For my immune disorder, my immunoglobulin levels (Ig) are all effectively zero. It's genetic. They will never improve. They're all zero except my Ig type G (IgG). It's the only one that can be replaced, and I'm on IgG replacement therapy. Some knob-head at the insurance company saw a blood report and said "You're IgG level is perfectly fine! Therefore you don't need this expensive medication, and we're no longer going to pay for it!" I called them and told them that if it's not covered, (A) I will get sick and ultimately die, but before I die, (B) I'm going to contact every New Mexico law maker, then Albuquerque newspaper and television and give them the full story. A week later a nurse called me back and told me that she'd dug deeper into my file and found an older test that demonstrated that all of my other Ig levels were zero and explained to whoever it was that cancelled my coverage that the only reason my IgG was high was because of my immune replacement therapy. And my coverage was re-instated. Now we do an annual blood draw - after I've made my full out of pocket - of all of my Ig levels, so they never have to look too deeply to see that information.
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Date: 2020-10-09 04:36 am (UTC)Surely something all upright Republicans need to know about their darling president, since he is now raving about this wonderful cure and how brilliant it is. (Costs "only" $96,000 per course.)
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Date: 2020-10-09 02:26 pm (UTC)Yeah, the stem cell fact was not lost on me. And I'm not at all surprised at the cost. Monoclonal treatments are extremely expensive.
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Date: 2020-10-09 06:09 am (UTC)