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Ensure Medicare Patient Access to Cancer Care

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  • Jul 29th, 2009
    Someone from Algona, IA writes:
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    One can not talk out of both sides of their mouth. We can not cut funding and then hope to find a cure!
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  • Jul 29th, 2009
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    Someone from Boca Raton, FL writes:
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    I am a cancer survivor. I was 42 when diagnosed with cancer and with proper care I am 56. I would hate the thought that heaven forbid the cancer would come back and I would not be able to get the proper treatment. I feel the new cuts to Medicare verges on criminal.
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    Someone from Fort Myers, FL writes:
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    There is a very, very serious risk that accessability to sophisticated cancer treatment will be restricted by this method. I fear this will not be understood until it is too late for correction.
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    Someone from Odessa, FL writes:
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    Congress needs to fund programs like care to cancer patients through Medicare it already has, not start the takeover of a system that is the envy of the world.
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  • Jul 29th, 2009
    Someone from Belleville, WI writes:
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    We already have ENOUGH health care options! The last thing we need is another money soaking government option. Everything the government puts its hands on becomes a burden on ALL tax payers and this $1T failure-to-be is just another example. Hell, the folks in Congress haven't even read the bill! How can you pass a $1T bill that you know NOTHING about!? It blows my mind. You'd think the government would learn?? Listen to your constituents for once. The overwhelming majority DOES NOT want this! Healthcare is NOT a Constitutional right. We have the BEST healthcare in the world. We don't need government getting in the way of that. We need more free market solutions. Liability law suit reform, etc. The very best MD's from around the world come here to practice medicine and perfect their niche within. They come to America because it's a place where they had the opportunity to make as much $$ perfecting their place in the medical world as possible. Really a win-win. They work their butts off to be the best at what they do and they get the accolades in money, respect and adoration from their patients/colleagues. If Government keeps dipping into their pockets these brilliant MD's will leave this country for a better opportunity. Face it, this is just another power grab, re-distribution of wealth and at the end of the day our country and it's people cannot take on a $1T burden! We're already broke people! We all need to stand up for our rights, as tax-paying Americans. That used to mean something. Year after year we allow our Government and the media to sour how awesome it is to live in this country and be called an American.
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  • Jul 28th, 2009
    Someone from Charlotte, NC writes:
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    The Medicare proposal will affect only Part B providers, and will lead to a huge disparity between payments to hosp-based vs office-based providers for IMRT treatments for prostate and head&neck cancer. Will CMS then insist that patients be treated only at office-based XRT practices to save money for the government???
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  • Jul 28th, 2009
    Someone from Columbus, GA writes:
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    My husband is a radiation oncologist. We are lucky, we have never been sued by a patient or their family, yet several of our friends, colleagues, and other medical facilities have been. They lose, yet they almost never get their day in court. This is because the insurance companies settle with the lawyers. They say it will cost to much to prove the doctor did nothing wrong. Lawyers make their living filling unnecessary lawsuits against doctors, hoping the doctor's insurance company will just fold. Unlike the remark Our president recently made that doctors do unnecessary procedures for money and that's the problem with health care. Lawyers, and President Obama is one, create about 20% of the health care waste, more if you count the tests we have to do to keep from getting sued. Stop the waste. Put tort reform on the table and keep it there, if a doctor is sued and the doctor wins make the lawyer pay the doctor for pain and suffering. Maybe that will stop some of the biggest loses of our health care dollars. Miriam Tidwell Director of the Tidwell Cancer Treatment Center Columbus Georgia.
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