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Hearing lots of talk suggesting voters sit this election...

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by: supermom Active Indicator LED Icon  OP  New Member
~ 7 years ago   Oct 14, '16 11:59am  
Hearing lots of talk encouraging voters to sit this election out. I get it. Neither candidate offers everything to all people. To that end, this is my story.
 
For 20 years my family has shared our story with friends and family about the crippling cost of caring for family members with chronic, debilitating medical conditions. The exorbitantly expensive medicine leaves every family in this situation in a constant state of panic. Our oldest was diagnosed with severe hemophilia B in 1996. Shortly after his birth in 1996, we moved from Illinois to Wisconsin with a 3 month old in my lap, $50 in our pocket, and all our possessions in storage. My husband had to find work with benefits that would cover our son's hemophilia B. In a time when pre-existing condition clauses we real. We couldn't seek treatment nor did we disclose his medical condition until after my husband's probationary period was up. That meant hoarding medicine, delaying treatment till he couldn't be fired without cause.
 
This was the first blow. Actually, I should consider the "pink slip" I received 3 months after he was born the first blow....fired from my job of 7 years. I was granted tenure after 2 years (2 years ahead of schedule, mind you! I was a good teacher!) and was a Supervising Teacher for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Teacher Training program at NIU. Students were placed with me as their final placement before graduation. I was a good teacher who suddenly lost my job because my son has hemophilia. Pulled my money out of my state retirement and off we went.
 
10 years later, my husband's workplace implemented a $2M lifetime cap on health insurance. Based on the boys' medication costs (which are artificially SUPER inflated) we knew we'd hit that soon. So, move again. In 2005 We moved BACK to Illinois where my husband found work at OSF. No lifetime caps!!! Again, I pulled want little money I'd accrued in the WI education retirement system and back we came.
 
In 2010, I wept upon hearing the Affordable Health Care Act was passed. My family, and even friends wept knowing the significance for our family. We were able to breath knowing the boys could get their own insurance! They can stay on OUR insurance till 26. This has been LIFE CHANGING. It's been a good several years. But now I'm worried.
 
Secretary Clinton, for all her baggage, is the only candidate who has any shot of continuing to reform Healthcare in the US. I've been sharing our family's story about having to change from one medicine (BeneFIX, they'd been on it for 15+ year) that runs around $30K per kid per month to their new medicine (Idelvion, only on the market since March) that's about $90K per month per kid.
 
The switch was 100% the result of our INSURANCE company denying their med. Insurance companies are in the business of making money, not practicing medicine.
 
I SHUDDER at the though of my boys having to navigate the Healthcare system or lose any of benefits we have fought long and hard for, should anyone BUT Secretary Clinton be elected. My 18 and 20 year old can FINALLY breath a sigh of relief knowing pre-existing conditions are a thing of the past as well as life time caps. They WILL be able to continue on their own health coverage. I am certain that unless Secretary Clinton is elected, my family will be severely impacted. I don't want to move again. I don't want the boys to have to go on disability just to afford the medicine that keeps them alive. And I don't want Donald Trump anywhere near healthcare reform.
 
All politics are local. Look at how a candidate will impact your family, your loved ones and yourself. Hillary knows her stuff when it comes to continued healthcare reform. Donald Trump doesn't know the different between and EOB and AWP.
 
If you dislike her as a person, fine. But she knows healthcare.
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tapeworm Active Indicator LED Icon 11
~ 7 years ago   Oct 14, '16 1:41pm  
The Clintons have already held office and healthcare still sucked.
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billybob Active Indicator LED Icon 12
~ 7 years ago   Oct 14, '16 2:05pm  
Secretary Clinton will be elected in a massive and, probably, historical landslide.
The republicans will probably lose both the House and Senate which will tremendously help in everything including health care.Even if the republicans don't lose control of congress their numbers will be reduced and quite likely moderate republicans will vote with democrats on major issues while the rest of the republicans point fingers at each other as they climb out of the massive and historical train wreck that is most certainly coming.
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leslie110 Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 7 years ago   Oct 14, '16 2:22pm  
@billybob
 
I think you are the only person on the planet who thinks that the Dems are going to take the House.
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billybob Active Indicator LED Icon 12
~ 7 years ago   Oct 14, '16 2:31pm  
@leslie110
Much of the majority is in swing districts that are either democrat or moderate republicans where Obama won by wider margins than the house member in 2012. In those same districts Clinton is polling much higher than Obama did in 2012 and Trump is doing much worse than Romney did there in 2012.
A few days ago Ryan spoke about the dire polling thry are seeing about for house republicans especially in swing districts and the ones republicans and Obama narrowly lost in 2012.
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AV8R Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 7 years ago   Oct 14, '16 3:44pm  
I think you are the only person on the planet who thinks that the Dems are going to take the House.

@leslie110 :
 
Am I the only person on PDC who's beginning to think that billybob is a democratic shill? Staffer? Lobbyist? Durban's brother? Nothing would surprise me.
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leslie110 Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 7 years ago   Oct 14, '16 3:50pm  
@AV8R
 
I just got Rick-rolled watching a youtube video of Hillary supposedly using the N word. That was the first time so I kind of enjoyed it!
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conrad Active Indicator LED Icon 4
~ 7 years ago   Oct 14, '16 6:54pm  
I will not vote for Trump or HRC.
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Mahkno Active Indicator LED Icon 17
~ 7 years ago   Oct 14, '16 7:03pm  
There are four choices...
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Mahkno Active Indicator LED Icon 17
~ 7 years ago   Oct 14, '16 7:05pm  
Very unlikely that the Dems take the House. If HRC had more favorable ratings maybe... but she doesn't.
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supermom Active Indicator LED Icon  OP  New Member
~ 7 years ago   Oct 14, '16 7:12pm  
It's a pretty crushing blow for a newly minted adult to receive an EOB stating:
 
Amount owed to Provider: $98,750.
 
And that was just for May's medication.
 
I wonder what The Drumpf has in store for folks like us.
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leslie110 Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 7 years ago   Oct 14, '16 7:38pm  
@supermom
 
Nothing...Tdump doesn't care about you, me, or anyone other than himself. Does Hillary care? I don't know for certain but she has a history of medical coverage efforts. (Kids Chip program and the efforts in the early '90s).
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~ 7 years ago   Oct 14, '16 8:45pm  
After hearing Bill Clinton bad mouth Obamacare in a speech about 2 weeks ago..saying it way to expensive and didnt pay for anything..how people were tired of the high deductible and out of pocket costs...I think Hillary is planning to take it to another level..get those payments down..make it more affordable..and lower those deductibles.
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AV8R Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 7 years ago   Oct 14, '16 8:48pm  
Nothing...Tdump doesn't care about you, me, or anyone other than himself.

@leslie110 :
 
You've just described every politician ever, and well over 75% of everyone in this country.
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Mahkno Active Indicator LED Icon 17
~ 7 years ago   Oct 14, '16 8:54pm  
There need to be hearings and investigations of why the insurance companies are raising the rates they proposing and why they are pulling out. I think there would be some big surprises. Those insurance companies won't come out looking like heroes.
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billybob Active Indicator LED Icon 12
~ 7 years ago   Oct 14, '16 8:56pm  
Obama gave a speech today in Cleveland and it was outstanding. It should have been given by a republican during the primaries. If so it is quite possible we would not be having this discussion today.
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