[quote=Butleroftwo][quote=SK in CV]
What does this have to do with proposed health insurance legislation?[/quote]

What does family planning, hospice, end of life choices, real-time determination of an individual’s financial responsibility at the point of service, raising taxes, palliative care, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research (in this section referred to as the ‘Center’), fines, national consensus standard for measuring the performance and improvement of population health, Resident training rules, required preventative services, home visitations of families expecting children, Health Service Corps and student loans have to do with insurance?

This started out as a healthcare bill and now is an insurance bill in name only. Who knows where it will end up? BO has put us on notice to get this done ASAP and those who created the problem have no place in fixing it.[/quote]

I asked that same question twice, in reference to two different posts, so I’m not sure which one you’re reponding to. I’m presuming you’re referring to the first one, the woman from Oregon, whose medicaid coverage did not include reimbursement for a drug which medical evidence showed would not significantly prolong her life. I suspect my premium coverage (not government paid, like her medicaid) might not cover a drug which costs $4,000 a month and phase III testing showed increased life expectancy from approximately 4 months to approximately 6 months, and has extraordinary side effects.

All that said, I’ll ask again. What exactly does this woman’s story, have to do with the proposed legislation?