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Here's another example of why medical reform is necessary:

Pres. Bush seems to believe that the Avian Flu bug is serious enough to warrant Martial Law. So he puts plans into effect. (This is based on a premature fact that this will mutate to become human spread.)

Now, in our country we have people with no insurance who are scared to go see doctors because of the cost. Some of these people may get infected, some of these people may actually be travellers on airlines and on the highways and infect others, who like they, are not insured and move to another city and spread it there and so on. Not to mention the kids at school, the coworkers and everyone else they come into contact with.

So because these people do not go to see medical personnel when symptoms appear, they spread it even faster. The spread maximizes and people wait until they have full blown sickness before they get help. Thus, the infection could have been passed on to 100's (and that's very low, but don't want someone to focus and attack this because I said too high of a number here) real fast.

Now, we look at countries with universal healthcare. Someone starts showing the symptoms, goes to the hospital, can be quarantined right away and the spread can be minimal.

Now, we look at third world countries where they have few doctors..... infected people go unnoticed until the disease has spread beyond control because of lack of good medical support.....

Another question is, if in fact 1000's or 1,000,000's do get infected in the US, do those with insurance get better treatment?

Is the treatment based on how much insurance will cover?

Who is going to pay for those uninsured?

Are you Neo-Cons, who support this system and refuse any reform, willing and brave enough to tell people who don't have insurance that they deserve to die because they are leeches on the tax system?

Are you brave enough to stand behind your policies and political beliefs and tell these people, they don't deserve innoculated because the cost to the taxpayer and the system would be too much?

Are you willing to stand behind these beliefs and say the pharmaceuticals have every right to demand as much as they can possibly get for the vaccine?

And what if YOUR insurance company decides the cost is too high so they find loopholes or state that you didn't get approval to see that certain doctor or go to that particular ER (even though that was the closest ER to you)?

See, our healthcare system is fatally flawed to the point where if a pandemic hits, we're far more susceptible to a worse case scenario and equal to the third world in many ways, than our friends in Europe, to the North, and other countries that have public healthcare.

If this Avian Flu is severe enough for Pres. Bush to have Martial Law plans drawn up and ready, then the above scenario is every bit as possible if not moreso.

And what about the government?

Are they going to force the hospitals to treat everyone showing symptoms to contain the virus and the outbreak or is the government just going to intern those who are sick and without insurance to "dying camps" to save the tax payers and insurance companies from the excess cost?

And what happens if you surpass your maximum benefits? Or cannot afford the prescriptions, because the insurance companies call the vaccines "exploratory, unproven drugs", or just flatly decide the cost to them will be so high they refuse to cover and go bankrupt claiming the claims are to high and they cannot pay?

Are you, who believe that medical care is a privelege and not a right, truly going to allow this?

Speak up....... don't be scared to show your true beliefs.

Show the world truly what is more important to you.....profiit or people.

Show the world you are willing to let a pandemic destroy a nice percentage of the country just for greed.

Those countries with Universal Healthcare maybe flawed but my guess is they'll contain it and treat the patients far more humanely.

I have a feeling none of you will. Or you'll come up with excuses and say we can make this one exception because of........

P.S. for those who are going to say I am exagerrating the situation, then Pres. Bush must be also, why else would Martial Law be so important to "contain" this disease?

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