Nick Kristof With The Ugly Truth: Our Health-Care System Destroys Families.

[unapatriciated]

It's not the fact that they're trying to stop health-care reform by any means necessary that gets to me. (After all, we're now a nation of greed and to the corporate victor goes the spoils.) No, it's the lies they use to manipulate and frighten people that make me despair, because they successfully bring out the worst in people - and keep other people from getting the help they desperately need.

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has a heartbreaking tale that illustrates why our present system is the one that's breaking down families
My friend M. — you’ll understand in a moment why she’s terrified of my using her name — had to make a searing decision a year ago. She was married to a sweet, gentle man whom she loved, but who had become increasingly absent-minded. Finally, he was diagnosed with early-onset dementia.

The disease is degenerative, and he will become steadily less able to care for himself. At some point, as his medical needs multiply, he will probably need to be institutionalized.

The hospital arranged a conference call with a social worker, who outlined how the dementia and its financial toll on the family would progress, and then added, out of the blue: “Maybe you should divorce.”

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/nick-kristof-ugly-truth-our-healthcar

This is the norm when it comes to chronic illness. The financial strain tears families apart and forces many into poverty.
Yet we still have those that back the very system that is responsible for this. Without stopping to take a breath those same people tell us they are for family values and pro life.

[janet118]

1. In America, we discriminate against the infirm

Only in America can a degenerative disease cause a family to lose their home, their marriage, their savings, their sanity. So much for "family values." The stress caused by our so called health care system takes it toll on the patient and his/her family during a time when they need all the emotional and physical resources just to get through the day. What kind of country are we? What would Jesus do?

[unapatriciated]

2. he would throw the Insurance Cartel out.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

3. Illustrates that there is no "moral" America, anymore,....definitively,...by action, not word. nt