How Is Obamacare Working Out for You?

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

My aunt, who never weighed more than 105 pounds, had gestational diabetes by the end of her life, Dell. IT'S HEREDITARY. Her parents, my grandparents, were thin (especially my grandfather, who was a 6 foot tall rail) and THEY BOTH HAD TYPE TWO DIABETES. Please tell me how that was their fault?

Please explain to me how my mother, who had both of her kids before the age of 30 and breast fed both of us for an extended time, gave herself breast cancer. Because that's what you do to reduce your risk- have kids before 30 and breast feed. In fact, the first two specialists she saw didn't believe her, because she was in such a low-risk group. They made fun of her alleged hypochondria ("You nurses are all the same") and sent her on her way.

And actually, according to this study, the obese and smokers are cheaper than health nuts:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/he...8884.html?_r=0

that's awful.
reminds me of stories i've heard about guys who get breast cancer-people think that there's no way guys can get that. hello, men have breast tissue, of course they can get breast cancer.

knowing some conditions people are born with, and deal with in their lives, if they had to pay according to their risk...they'd be beyond bankrupt. how would that make sense, to rate like that?

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Danzig

that's awful.
reminds me of stories i've heard about guys who get breast cancer-people think that there's no way guys can get that. hello, men have breast tissue, of course they can get breast cancer.

knowing some conditions people are born with, and deal with in their lives, if they had to pay according to their risk...they'd be beyond bankrupt. how would that make sense, to rate like that?

Yeah, a former roommate's boyfriend's dad (how's that for a how-I-know-them chain?) was a breast cancer survivor.

They're better about it now than they were 30 years ago, in terms of understanding young women can get it, too. But back in 1979, when she found a lump, forget it. No one was talking about it.

I remember two neighbor girls wanted to take up a collection to help us with medical costs and my mother had to tell them no, because my dad was too uncomfortable about the whole neighborhood knowing she was sick. Ah, the good old days*, when even the word "cancer" had to whispered...

*not actually good