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Hope for real reform?

Posted by Nurse Advocate on January 5, 2009 - 1:59pm

There is finally real potential for health care reform. With the election of Barack Obama and now his appointment of former Senator Tom Daschle to head Health and Human Services and the announcement of Hilda Solis to head the Labor Dept, real reform may be on the way.

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Health insurance in California isn't required to provide OT or PT in chronic cases-our quadlaplegic daughter goes without

Martin
Healdsburg, CA
Heathcare Status: Self-Insured

There are so many health insurance stories to tell when one has a severely disabled child, it is hard to know where to begin. Let me say though how fortunate we are to have secured and be able to pay for (at outrageous expense) a private health plan after all these years, thanks to Mr. Mip and the Mr. Mip graduate legislation. HOWEVER ...

Submitted on January 5, 2008 - 11:02am.

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Now I am ambidextrous.

Cortney
Stuttgart, AR
Heathcare Status: Uninsured

I went to the emergency room really late one night. There wasn't another patient to be seen. I was admitted immediately. I didn't see a doctor for nearly three hours. I sat in a bed with my hand in ice cold water. I was in pain. I wasn't given anything for pain the whole time I was there. I was given a tetanus shot.

Submitted on April 30, 2008 - 10:07pm.

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