Healthcare reform

[SOREHOOF]

Originally Posted by Riot

There are currently alot of cancers that are cureable.

Only if detected in time. The time someone spends on a waiting list, or waiting for beaurocratic permission for the tests could be a matter of life or death. These people don't give 2 sh!ts about anyones health. It's a power grab plain and simple. Congressmen (and women) are not lining up to sign on to the Public Option. They wouldn't even vote to make it mandatory for themselves to be on the P.O.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by SOREHOOF

Only if detected in time..

No. All "cancers" are not alike. "In time" is in reference to those types of cancers that are highly (and quickly) malignant. Yes, those are nasty. There are plenty that are not, however.

There are many cancers today that are completely and rather easily curable. People still "hear the C word" and freak out. That's unfortunate, and needlessly scary for them. That's a lack of education about what oncology can do nowadays.

[SOREHOOF]

Originally Posted by Riot

No. All "cancers" are not alike. "In time" is in reference to those types of cancers that are highly (and quickly) malignant. Yes, those are nasty. There are plenty that are not, however.

There are many cancers today that are completely and rather easily curable. People still "hear the C word" and freak out. That's unfortunate, and needlessly scary for them. That's a lack of education about what oncology can do nowadays.

I stand corrected Dr. Riot.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by SOREHOOF

I stand corrected Dr. Riot.

I am a Dr. Riot, but we vets certainly treat alot of cancers. We use the same chemotherapeutic and radiation therapies as humans do, and there is alot of crossover and shared information between human and animal cancers.

Even in countries with real socialized medicine (the US is not by any means close with any of the healthcare reform bills pending), stories about long waits for treatment revolve mainly along elective, non-life-threatening lines. Horror stories are rare.

Far rarer than here in the US, where you have to have a certain income level to get "the best" care, where having a serious cancer can readily bankrupt your family when the insurance company decides not to pay or stops paying, and where early diagnosis of many diseases is often missed because many people simply cannot afford to see a doctor on a regular, preventive or timely basis.

That is WHY there is such a massive push for healthcare reform in this country. Because we NEED it!

[SOREHOOF]

I agree we need reform. I don't want to see a massive Govt. takeover. I forgot you were really a doctor. I was being a smartas

[Riot]

Originally Posted by SOREHOOF

I agree we need reform. I don't want to see a massive Govt. takeover.

Ditto.

You're not a smartazz Glenny Beck - there's a smartazz

[witchdoctor]

Originally Posted by Riot

Even in countries with real socialized medicine (the US is not by any means close with any of the healthcare reform bills pending), stories about long waits for treatment revolve mainly along elective, non-life-threatening lines. Horror stories are rare.

Obviously, you have never worked at a VA Hospital or had to deal with the Indian Health service.