I'm opposed to spending tax dollars on health care for those that refuse to live a healthy lifestyle. Why should my tax dollars be used to pay for the health care of those that abuse their bodies with alcohol, drugs, or who engage in sexual activities that result in HIV or other STDs? Let them pay for their own health care.
I'm opposed to ACA because I think it was not well thought through and that it has serious flaws.
I'm not opposed to spending tax dollars for low cost tests and preventative treatment that have benefit to those that do live a healthy lifestyle.
In my case, the MRI would have resulted in a correct diagnosis of a condition that caused me much reoccurring physical pain for decades. Without the correct diagnosis, I was not given any physical activity constraints, and as a result, I suffered a much more serious injury that I will now be living with for the rest of my life. Ultimately, the MRI was ordered following the more serious injury to diagnose the extent and true nature of the injury. So, the cost of the MRI was incurred in any case. The only difference is that I now have chronic pain that I will live with for the rest of my life. For this reason, I do believe that x-rays, and MRI and CT scans, should be part of the preventative care arsenal.
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ibmpensionissues@..., edward_berkline wrote:
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> So you are opposed to spending tax dollars for low cost tests and preventative treatment that have real value because those things don't directly benefit you, but you would support spending tax dollars on high cost tests like MRIs, even though in most cases they have been shown to have no value as a preventative measure?
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> Doesn't sound like a smart way to keep the cost of medical care down.
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ibmpensionissues@..., "zimowski@" wrote:
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> > The point I was trying to make is that ACA preventative care does not provide significant coverage of any kind because the services that are covered are for the most part inexpensive and easily affordable. The real purpose of ACA preventative care was/is to make the middle class feel like they are getting something for all the tax money ACA will cost the average middle class American.
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> > I think I've made it clear that I don't think ACA is of value to me. It's not, and I'm opposed to spending U.S. tax dollars to put it in place and to fund it. This, however, does not mean that I don't understand what herpes zoster is and that I don't discuss my health needs with my doctor. As far as x-rays, CT scans and MRI scans go, I agree they are mostly for diagnostic purposes, but a doctor cannot see what's going on inside my body any better than I can. Much of what doctors do is guess and use a cookie cutter approach to align a diagnosis with observed symptoms. In my case, one guess was incorrect, and led to a much more serious situation. An MRI scan would have prevented this.
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