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Seven Republican members of

artappraiser — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 02:54:29 +0000

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Seven Republican members of Congress, running for re-election, are claiming the Washington Post fact-checker backs their claims they want to protect pre-existing conditions. The WaPo fact-checker said no such thing and is calling them out. https://t.co/m0R9K0C9ZD
— andrewkaczynski (@KFILE) October 30, 2018

From the newspaper that no

artappraiser — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 05:54:31 +0000

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From the newspaper that no one bothers to bash:

Your election guide to health care made simple.

“Votes not quotes.”https://t.co/a7UyX6KOaK
— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) October 12, 2018

FWIW, McSally held to this

artappraiser — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 18:16:53 +0000

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FWIW, McSally held to this claim at her Scottsdale, AZ event last night: ”I have voted to protect people with preexisting conditions.” That’s not what her vote for AHCA did. She added that the bill’s “intention” was to protect sick people. https://t.co/a8eH0oFDWQ
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) October 25, 2018

House Rs are sounding the

artappraiser — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 01:28:24 +0000

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House Rs are sounding the alarm over Obamacare attacks by Dems that are working. How pre-existing conditions has become the little discussed wedge issue in the midterms. W/ ⁦@eschor⁩ -> https://t.co/7uSMYHrzU6 pic.twitter.com/CSJs1FoEoA
— Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) October 25, 2018

One company, DaVita, paid

rmrd0000 — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 16:41:13 +0000

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One company, DaVita, paid over $1.2 M for overcharging the federal government for dialysis expenses

https://corpwatch.org/article/davita-pays-895-million-settle-kidney-treatment-fraud-claims

Would you like to see my

wabby — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 15:54:14 +0000

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Would you like to see my bill? Before insurance kicks in it's enough to cause a heart attack. which becomes another pre-existing condition.

FWIW, I did peritoneal dialysis for a year before getting peritonitis and having the tube removed. That at home treatment is 7 days a week 52 weeks a year so the cost is comparable to the three times a week treatment at a clinic.

As to the someone is getting rich, I take my hint from my downstate doctor who zooms up north to our clinic in his Jaguar. The techs? Chevy. Ford.

I know that there are

A Guy Called LULU — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 15:09:10 +0000

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I know that there are probably a thousand ways your situation may be an outlier but a google search indicates that for most people the costs of dialysis are very much lower, though still cripplingly expensive. Individual treatments are said to cost about $500 on average. Used dialysis machines sell for $15,000. Home dialysis by the patient is common. Dialysis technicians make about $20 an hour. If your situation is not in some outlier category someone is getting rich ripping off the system to the tune of $12000 a week.

edited to remove the word not before cripplingly.

The attack on dialysis and

rmrd0000 — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 15:07:02 +0000

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The attack on dialysis and the other illnesses are insane. If dialysis patients have to present to emergency rooms when they are volume overloaded or have symptoms related to not clearing toxins, medical costs will increase. If they don’t care about the moral issues, they should care about the economics. Maybe they assume that people needing dialysis will die from electrolyte imbalance.

Trump is not ashamed about lying. He contradicts himself when talking about middle class tax cuts despite his deception being recorded on camera. His supporters simply don’t care. They are sheep. Republicans follow his lead by saying that they will protect pre-existing conditions. People have to vote to stop this crap.

It's beyond me what they

artappraiser — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 14:56:46 +0000

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It's beyond me what they think should happen with patients like you who aren't Medicare age! (And yours is common, dialysis is a big business, like a lot of other illnesses on the list.) Leaving behind the problem of all the expensive outpatient care that people like you require to stay alive and not die on the street, they also take the absurdity to the next level. They always use the excuse of "the emergency room" will take anyone, as if "the emergency room" doesn't use Medicaid and Medicare money to pay for "the emergency room" and they are trying to cut coverage there, too. Their arguments and plans are absurd on their face and I think many more people, having been educated by the whole Obamacare debate and access, now see that.

Seems to me from what I've read, that a requirement of coverage of pre-existing conditions is the one big thing that is supported by a huge majority, including all those who prefer employer-based insurance.

See renal failure up there on

wabby — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 14:22:52 +0000

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See renal failure up there on that list? That's me. ESRD or End Stage Renal Disease. Sounds scary but if I was gonna die, I would have done it seven years ago.

Needless to say, I take this pre-existing issue seriously in the extreme. I am dependent on 3 dialysis treatments a week, 52 weeks a year. Each treatment costs upwards of $4000. 3x4000x52=$624,000. If Mr. flower and I were to sell all our worldly possessions, I could live about 11 weeks, plus the 3 weeks it would take for me to actually die.

Yes, this issue is life or death serious for me.

Republicans are part of the human race yet unable to grasp the concept of humanity and I think they take advantage of the health insurance quagmire because it is a quagmire and easy to manipulate and manufacture blatant lies to folks who like to believe they are well informed.

The end.