HBox
03-16-2005, 09:09 PM
A perfect example how our health system fails some of our most needy. (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7160636/)
When Tanner Stainbrook was hospitalized at age 3 with cystic fibrosis, a tiny program in the Ohio Health Department paid the $14,000 not covered by insurance.
Over the years, it paid for other hospital stays. It paid co-payments for prescriptions and doctor visits. And it paid for the vest that shook and pounded his chest to loosen the debilitating mucus caused by the inherited lung disease.
Now Tanner is 8 and still struggling with this lifelong affliction. But Ohio is finding itself unable to keep paying the cost of health care like his. New rules mean his parents and 5,000 other families must pay much more before state aid kicks in.
For the Stainbrooks it's $6,000 more, and "that's $6,000 we don't have," said Tanner's mother, Wendy Stainbrook.
It would be nice if our inadequate helath system got some more attention from Congress, but I guess the ailing credit card industry is in more distress than these people.
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When Tanner Stainbrook was hospitalized at age 3 with cystic fibrosis, a tiny program in the Ohio Health Department paid the $14,000 not covered by insurance.
Over the years, it paid for other hospital stays. It paid co-payments for prescriptions and doctor visits. And it paid for the vest that shook and pounded his chest to loosen the debilitating mucus caused by the inherited lung disease.
Now Tanner is 8 and still struggling with this lifelong affliction. But Ohio is finding itself unable to keep paying the cost of health care like his. New rules mean his parents and 5,000 other families must pay much more before state aid kicks in.
For the Stainbrooks it's $6,000 more, and "that's $6,000 we don't have," said Tanner's mother, Wendy Stainbrook.
It would be nice if our inadequate helath system got some more attention from Congress, but I guess the ailing credit card industry is in more distress than these people.
Let Us Trim Our Hair In Accordance with Socialist Lifestyle!