Health Insurance

UNAIDS and the WHO estimate that, as of December 2006, the number of people living with HIV has reached its highest level, at around 39.5 million. More than 25 million others have died of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) since it was first recognized in 1981, making the pandemic one of the most destructive in recorded history.

HIV is typically transmitted through sex or intravenous drug use, and is often associated with marginalized groups such as gay men, drug users and sex workers. For these reasons, and also because of fears of contagion, people living with HIV are frequently subjected to stigma and discrimination. Publicity campaigns around the world have aimed to counter HIV-related prejudices and misconceptions and to replace them with an accurate understanding that helps to prevent new infections.

These efforts have been greatly aided by various celebrities — including American basketball star Magic Johnson and South African judge Edwin Cameron — who have publicly announced that they are HIV-positive.

Condoms are the best way to protect against HIV as well as other sexually-transmitted diseases such as herpes and condylomas. HIV is transmitted via mucus, wounds, used syringes and bodily fluids. Of these bodily fluids only 5 carry the disease from one person to another: blood, sperm, pre-seminal male secretions, vaginal secretions, and mother’s milk.

Treatment exists to fight HIV. This treatment is called antiretroviral (ARV) therapy. It is not a cure. It does, however, help the body’s immune system fight HIV, and therefore has restored the health of many sick people within just a few months. That’s what we call the Lazarus Effect.

ARV therapy is lifelong. This is why (RED) plans to be around for a long time, to help raise money for the Global Fund and continue to fight AIDS in Africa.

Some of you have asked, why Africa? In the United States, you can get ARVs at your local pharmacy, through your doctor and health insurance. If you don’t have health insurance, there are programs that can help you get access to ARVs. In Africa, no one had access for many years, and the number of people in sub-Saharan Africa who live with HIV has grown to 22.5 milion. We have a tremendous opportunity to help break this epidemic.

Most doctors don’t test for the two most common sexually transmitted diseases – unless you ask them to! Learn what to ask for during your next STD test.

World AIDS Day is December 1. According to the World Health Organization, there are 33.2 million people in the world today living with HIV/AIDS. This video dramatizes the immense scope of that number with a series of one-second scenes representing each individual. Help us win the fight against HIV/AIDS. www.amfAR.org

Darfur, Sudan is being called the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today. Tens of thousands of people have died. Two million more have been forced to flee their homes and livelihoods. For these innocent civilians, living on the edge of survival, their only hope is the dwindling number of humanitarian organizations willing to risk the dangers on the ground in Darfur to provide relief. International Medical Corps was one of the first relief organizations to arrive on the scene in Darfur, and remains there to this day. Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, IMC provides help in more than 25 countries and regions worldwide that have been ravaged by war and disaster. IMC’s network of some 5,000 doctors, nurses and other health care professionals makes it one of the fastest, most effective emergency response agencies in the world. For more information visit http://www.imcworldwide.org.

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Rep. Lynch D-MA Town Hall. Austria’s top rated European Universal Health Care vs. American private insurance.

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17 year old Natalie Sarkisyan was allowed to die in 2007 when CIGNA Insurance denied her multiple doctors’ repeated requests for life-saving organ transplant.

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This is a preview of a DVD by Dr Dawit Mengistu that may change your life. It is all about how to prevent heart disease, cancer, diabetes and other diseases from shortening your life.

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At a town hall meeting with seniors in Silver Spring, MD, Vice President Joe Biden and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius discuss the release of a new report, “Health Insurance Reform and Medicare: Making Medicare Stronger for America’s Seniors.” The Vice President says: “Nobody is going to mess with your benefits. All we do is make it better for people on Medicare.”

The new report out of HHS addresses some of the common questions American seniors have about health insurance reform: How will reducing subsidies to Medicare Advantage plans affect me? How will health insurance reform make my care more affordable? Will health insurance reform actually improve my care? Will I have a choice of doctor? Will Medicare be there for me in the future?

For each of these questions, the report details the problems with the status quo and discusses the solutions provided by the Presidents health insurance reform plan. Some of the solutions listed in the report include:
Preserving and strengthening Medicare
Cutting high prescription drug costs
Making preventive services free
Ending overpayments to private insurance companies that cost all Medicare beneficiaries
Improving quality and patient safety
Making long term care services more affordable

He joked about having to disabuse his own mother of myths being spread around about “death panels” and reduced Medicare benefits, getting laughs at the line: “I said, ‘Mom, I’m trying to kill you,” before explaining to her that it was a “bunch of malarkey.”

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This is a preview of a 74 minute DVD called “Health By Choice” by Dr Dawit Mengistu in the Amharic Language of Ethiopia, with English sub-titles. This DVD may change your life. It is all about how to prevent heart disease, cancer, diabetes and other diseases from shortening your life.

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The answer from Primerica and MEGA Health both was ‘NO”
Primerica also stated that you WILL NOT be denied a claim if you die because of vaccination reaction.

I live in Massachusetts, it may vary state to state and depend on your position at work.
Please check in with Blue Cross.

I did see that Blue Cross requires diabetics to be up to date with vaccinations on their website, but do not know if they could cancel or deny you for refusing H1N1 or any other vaccine.

EVERYONE needs to call their life and health insurance providers NOW – especially state and govt run care.

btw- I am dropping MEGA health- Google them and “NASE”- they typically target self employed and small business owners. Research them and read other’s stories about their practices.

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The myth the Insurance companies would like you to believe.

AHIP spokesman Robert Zirkelbach said that lowering Medicare and Medicaid fees does not reduce overall health care costs. “It just shifts those costs through the system, and it’s ultimately consumers and employers who end up paying more.”

Proponents of privet insurance plans say the rising cost of health care is due to providers having to bill The private insurers more money because, Medicare doesnt pay the doctor enough this assertion is a complete fabrication.
Here is the truth they dont want you to know.
I have interviewed three doctors 2 of them primary care physicians and one of them being a Neurologist says that Medicaid and other public programs have a set amount for them to bill. Whereas private insurers do to but in order for the private insurers to pay the correct amount for their services they have to bill them three times the amount of what it is normally suppose to cost because the private insurers will only pay a third of what is asked.

The rising cost of healthcare is not due to public insurers short balling their dues. Rather it is due to the private insurers insisting on paying only a third of what is asked for services by the provider.

THINK ABOUT IT?

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I just see so many naive people saying that there’s nothing wrong with our heal care system, and how great their insurance coverage is, I felt it was worth uploading this clip.

Dr Linda Peeno confessing to denying payments

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