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Reader Post | By Charles
I’d like to share a story that was told to me in November 2010 by a friend in the United States. He wanted to share with me how much his family has personally been helped by the Affordable Care Act enacted earlier that year (in March 2010).
I’ve made comments of my own, below … but please read what my friend said before you give any attention to those.
My daughter, Brigid, is a freshman in high school. She just turned 15 last Sunday. A cooler, more delightful 15-year-old girl you’ll never find. She’s a quirky kid who revels in being a nonconformist; she’s a complete geek whose main loves in life are drama club, playing the guitar, writing, and crocheting and sewing. We’re far closer than most fathers with their teenage daughters. (I’m back in college, preparing to become an English teacher; I’m doing observation hours in her school and she actually wanted me to come observe her class. Most 15-year-old girls would cringe at their fathers doing that…in fact, her teacher was stunned and impressed. :)) So, yeah, the greatest accomplishment in my life? The kid (and her little sister!). Only two good things that came out of my former marriage, that’s for sure!
Anyhow, I was taking her and her sister to their annual physicals a couple weeks back. Brigid’s been mostly healthy…a little exercise induced asthma that’s easily controlled…and I wasn’t expecting any bombshells. Until she dropped one on the way there: “Yeah, and I have to talk to the doctor about why I haven’t had a period in a year.”
A girl who hit menarche at 11 not having a period for a year when she’s 14? This is never good. And it wasn’t. After all the tests were done, we got a diagnosis: it’s called Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, or PCOS.
Short version: her ovaries don’t work. There’s no ovulation going on. She’s infertile. They had to give her a drug to kickstart her period and she’ll be on the pill to regulate said periods, because if you don’t have a period you increase the risk of endometrial cancer.
There’s more, lots more. As I said, if she ever wants to have kids, she’ll need fertility drugs at the very least. PCOS kicks your testosterone into overdrive, so we have a teenaged girl whose secondary s-x characteristics are out of whack (in her case, acne and hair where girls shouldn’t be growing hair, both of which the pill should slow down.) Also, the scientists don’t actually know why yet, but they have identified a link between PCOS and insulin resistance, so she’s at a MUCH higher risk for developing diabetes at some point. PCOS also seems to affect cholesterol.
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Look, it’s manageable, and she’s handling the whole ordeal very well. But this thing never goes away. It’s a lifetime condition, and requires management. So, just in case you haven’t yet connected the dots, let me do so for you: my teenage daughter was just diagnosed with one hell of a WHOPPER of a pre-existing condition.
Not only does she no longer have to worry about that, thanks to the Affordable Care Act, she also doesn’t have to worry about getting kicked off of my fantabulous plan until she’s 26.
How many stories are like mine? How many people realize what a relief it is not to have to worry about the whole pre-existing condition b------t? I don’t have to tell my daughter that she might have problems getting insurance. Because she WON’T. Thanks to an imperfect, but in some ways kick-a-s, health care bill that some want to repeal.
Those people who believe in “social darwinism”; who believe that only the best and the strongest should prevail, should welcome a “level playing” field, don’t you think? They should be glad to give everyone an equal opportunity to excel, so that no one’s inherent worth is strangled by circumstances over which they have no control.
People who believe in “social darwinism”, don’t really believe in “equality”. Not the type of equality they claim to believe in, in which everyone has an equal opportunity at success. They are interested only in preserving a system to which they owe their own “success” and their self-promoting belief in their “superiority” over others. I got mine already; you’re on your own.
Americans, it seems to me, worry too much that someone else is going to get something they don’t deserve. Canadians never express that worry to me. They may think it, but they certainly don’t say it.
So someone else’s kid gets free hospital treatment for a head injury … that doesn’t take anything from me. Because one day it might be my kid’s turn to ride in that ambulance. That’s the way a healthy society works. And that’s how we fight back against the insatiable greed of the one-percenters. We are our neighbor’s keeper. Because, like it or not, we’re all in this together.
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Just for the record, well over one-third of Americans suffer from one of the following health conditions (once considered “pre-existing conditions” by most insurance providers): cardiovascular disease (82.6 million people), cancer or a cancer history (like my wife), diabetes (which will affect nearly half of all Americans by 2050 mostly due to the wretched American diet according to the American Diabetes Association), Parkinson’s Disease and multiple sclerosis.
I believe Americans deserve a health care system just as good as (maybe better) than the one Canadians have.
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Charles
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