tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post1814321905384320748..comments2024-02-29T06:34:59.406-05:00Comments on From The House of Edward: How Do You Feel?Pamela Terry and Edwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12746603636884819522noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-76390424473234087302015-06-19T17:49:22.205-04:002015-06-19T17:49:22.205-04:00A copy of your post should be sent to the presiden...A copy of your post should be sent to the president, congress, and every major news paper in the country.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-32050175591950605292014-05-08T19:24:10.829-04:002014-05-08T19:24:10.829-04:00Bravo. Thank you for helping to inform Americans ...Bravo. Thank you for helping to inform Americans that a real healthcare system is not a thing we need to fear. I am further relieved to read the numerous positive comments here - thank goodness I'm not the only one who longs for continued change to our healthcare. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-42371749474071958092014-03-21T19:50:33.324-04:002014-03-21T19:50:33.324-04:00Hi Pamela!!!
While I was commenting on a new post...Hi Pamela!!!<br /><br />While I was commenting on a new post, I noticed the picture to the right of the comment area, and it was a female looking out the window while in bed. It had the heading, "How Are You Feeling," and as I looked out my window to see fresh snow on our beautiful mountains, I realized I was doing the exact same thing as the painting.<br /><br />I really don't say this very much, but, with healthcare, I'm grateful to live in Canada...Yes I just said, 'Canada.' I have loved the US since I was a young girl and then when I use to go to Van Nuys, California for the summers as a teenager, but, when it comes to my health, Canada is it.<br /><br />You see, I'm a diabetic. I nearly died at the age of 9, but, they caught it in time. I've had 18 operations, 3 pregnancies with 2 live births, with the last one I nearly died and had to be induced 6 weeks early and left with troubled kidneys. Back during the holiday season a sore throat led to pneumonia and again, near death. Can you imagine how much this would have cost if I lived in the US? <br /><br />I cannot understand how helping the people with healthcare would be bad. Just because these ones are rich who vote down these decisions can pay any medical bill that comes their way, they look down at those who are not in their same circle. We know that when we go down to Seattle that we always get traveling health insurance...Just in case. To look at me you'd never know of my health condition, but, it eases my mind that I'm covered no matter what.<br /><br />I thought, and it's just my opinion, that it was because of Florence Nightingale's influence that made hospitals clean, professional and hospitable to those who had to stay in them and that's why the showing at the opening event at the Olympics in London.<br /><br />I love the UK so much and I don't know if I'll ever get there. In fact as I am in bed, I'm watching Downtown Abbey and I'm so grateful for the internet. I get to google map the UK and it's like taking a mini holiday there.<br /><br />Take care Pamela and have a wonderful weekend!!! <br /><br />Oh wait...I want to tell you that I'm getting a pup at the end of April. He is one half long haired Chihuahua and one quarter Maltese and one quarter Yorkie. I have to have a small dog because of my hands. My hands are ok, it's just I had operations on them and that has made them weak. I'm fine with all that's happened to me because I've lived longer than many.<br /><br />Pam<br />xoxPamLuvsPinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06894521704333998169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-54948246612728477902013-11-15T15:19:14.736-05:002013-11-15T15:19:14.736-05:00Hear, hear!!!! Well said.Hear, hear!!!! Well said.Robertanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-52241185863714336392013-10-20T15:55:49.321-04:002013-10-20T15:55:49.321-04:00Dear Pamela
I am only catching up with your Scott...Dear Pamela<br /><br />I am only catching up with your Scottish drama now, because I have been engaging with our NHS as a result of my 86 year old father's ongoing battle with a serious chest infection. He is currently in a high dependency unit up in Speyside, where we are just now. He is very poorly, but at the same time very comfortable in the gentle care of doctors and nurses. I look around the ward and see a whole range of economic statuses evident in the visitors sitting beside their loved ones. The common factors are that all the patients are elderly, all are seriously ill, and all are receiving the same excellent care because they need it. What can possibly be wrong with that? I would gladly pay a bit more in tax each month to safeguard the NHS.<br /><br />I am so sorry to think that you were only 40 miles away from me and I couldn't help you. The next time you are in Scotland, I hope you will get in touch. Meantime I hope that the Songwriter continues to make a good recovery.Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11269887100694066103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-39804098218926545222013-10-16T15:09:03.761-04:002013-10-16T15:09:03.761-04:00I just found my way back to your blog after a few ...I just found my way back to your blog after a few years. I had lost my contacts a few years ago and you are one that it took this long to find again! So glad i did because this is truly helpful to me. I have been opposed to the universal healthcare even though we have lived without insurance and bad insurance and well just bad health care. We avoid the Doctors! But my daughter at University has discussed the good of Obama care and has helped me to not oppose it as i did. Now your experience enlightens me further. From what you experienced it sounds wonderful. So thank you for sharing. It has changed my opinion. Seawashedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00299816851144887705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-56200654133930085622013-10-15T13:35:28.611-04:002013-10-15T13:35:28.611-04:00Dear Genuine Lustre
Private insurance is wonderfu...Dear Genuine Lustre <br />Private insurance is wonderful, I agree. But what about those citizens who cannot afford it?Pamela Terry and Edwardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12746603636884819522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-8835684271812601302013-10-14T12:29:45.107-04:002013-10-14T12:29:45.107-04:00This country will live to regret the ACA, which is...This country will live to regret the ACA, which is driving doctors out of business left and right. Private is the way to go. Genuine Lustrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11397566905693730324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-2930424765422436462013-10-07T15:30:37.366-04:002013-10-07T15:30:37.366-04:00Dear Anonymous,
Respectfully, I think you may hav...Dear Anonymous, <br />Respectfully, I think you may have misunderstood the nature of my essay. I am not arguing that the Affordable Care Act is the be all and end all way out of this problem. I am addressing the prevailing attitudes of stonewalling, denial, and fear that surround any change in the status quo. Those who are currently putting our country at risk by shutting down parts of the government in an attempt to stop this law from taking effect, (which is in itself rather ironic as the money the federal government is using to fund the health exchanges doesn’t rely on appropriations from Congress, so the program is moving ahead unfettered by their stunt) do not seem to consider the problem of health care to be any sort of priority. Historically, they have resorted to the same tactics each time a change is proposed. My point was only that both sides of our severely divided country should realize the need for change and be willing to put the American people’s wellbeing ahead of any partisan differences. One can dream.<br />Pamela Terry and Edwardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12746603636884819522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-59342661510389330762013-10-07T13:52:51.123-04:002013-10-07T13:52:51.123-04:00Best wishes for Songwriter's speedy recovery. ...Best wishes for Songwriter's speedy recovery. Now - this is important - the ACA is not what people have hoped it would be. For the states running their own exchanges there are no provisions to cap premiums - NONE - and after year 1 you can bet the insurance companies participating in the exchanges will start jacking up premiums just like before. Second, the "affordable" part refers to the monthly premiums but the newly insured will find that the "affordable" premiums either are NOT "affordable" or that they provide insurance with such high deductibles that they're moot anyway. And finally, no provisions were made under ACA to prevent health insurance "adjusters" from routinely and falsely denying claims, just like Medicaid does now and just like private insurance companies do now. I read the entire, final ACA and was dismayed to feel that, once again, the American people have been sold a bogus bill of goods.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-17917877950340187362013-10-05T22:39:37.508-04:002013-10-05T22:39:37.508-04:00Bravo ~Well spoken !!!!!!
I send my thoughts alo...Bravo ~Well spoken !!!!!! <br />I send my thoughts along for a speedy recovery for the Songwriter!!!!Barbarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286577484824856913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-79847920070510706592013-10-05T07:41:59.200-04:002013-10-05T07:41:59.200-04:00I love to comment you... Great post.. I don't ...I love to comment you... Great post.. I don't have words to say.. Really awesome..<br /><a href="http://www.pimpmyviews.com/" rel="nofollow">buy youtube views</a><br />PimpmyviewsPearlshttp://www.pimpmyviews.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-87091675737693301602013-10-05T07:28:34.715-04:002013-10-05T07:28:34.715-04:00One of the songs from my favourite Australian arti...One of the songs from my favourite Australian artist Paul Kelly has the words "from little things, big things grow" and it's about the power of the people. Amen to that. Nice work Pamela.....B:)Brendahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16289440941887803139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-88558336982353652562013-10-04T18:24:25.488-04:002013-10-04T18:24:25.488-04:00Thank you for writing this, Pamela, and thanki you...Thank you for writing this, Pamela, and thanki you for asking. Mind if I tell you our story? <br /><br />My husband, of 40 years, was diagnosed with what was then called Juvenile Diabetes, 45 years ago. He has, thankfully, exceeded the life expectancy given at the time, because of good medical care and how well he has taken care of himself. Still, there have been issues.<br /><br />The years of working for a big company gave us good coverage. When he lost his job and started his own business, I went back to work to cover our daughters and myself. He was considered uninsurable. Until October 1, 2014, he still was considered this. We paid, exorbitantly, for him to continue on the plan from his former employer. <br /><br />We never complained. <br /><br />When another president tried to reform health care, he did not succeed, however, he rattled the chains and it opened the door for us to have a small group policy. I needed to quit my job and become an employee for this to happen, however. We made the sacrifice. <br /><br />We never complained. Business was good. <br /><br />Economy tanked, and so did small businesses. We still didn't complain, just made do the best we could. Until about 10 years ago when our insurance company instituted exorbitant yearly increases. 10% 12% 15%. 18%. We now pay out more in insurance premiums than we bring in, for 2 people. <br /><br />We started complaining, especially when our representative, who is also a juvenile diabetic, voted again the ACA. Of course, he is covered. <br /><br />I welcome this with open arms. We will never recoup what we lost in dollars, but, it will help us ease into the next few years, before Medicare, and it will help millions of others, especially children. <br /><br />Thanks. Now I feel better.<br /><br />Penny O'Neillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14665025558373015362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-58724988571948416292013-10-04T10:58:49.620-04:002013-10-04T10:58:49.620-04:00I am so glad that you received such excellent care...I am so glad that you received such excellent care in Scotland and that the Songwriter was so well cared for.I would love to share this blog post over here as we currently have a government determined to sell off the NHS and are running it down. Would you be willing for me to share it?<br />The word verification is toryout...how is that for a coincidence :-)Cait O'Connorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04569760764766505179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-55556270914259216552013-10-04T10:43:39.023-04:002013-10-04T10:43:39.023-04:00The subject of health care in our country is not a...The subject of health care in our country is not about the quality of care we get, who gets it, and what we could do about improving the cost of its deliverance so that everyone can receive the best, but it has become a very divisive and political subject about who is actually going to oversee (and control) the actual care we get--the government or ourselves. It isn't that I do not want good health care for everyone, but when one looks at the mismanagement of Social Security and other programs that the government oversees, it is no wonder that our country is $17 trillion dollars in debt that we cannot possibly repay. Those $25 screws and bolts we paid for are coming back to haunt us. Fraud always rears its ugly head in DC. JudyMachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04448320253904832677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-83596533586744734282013-10-04T07:00:37.437-04:002013-10-04T07:00:37.437-04:00Speaking as a proud Scot, I can say our NHS is won...Speaking as a proud Scot, I can say our NHS is wonderful as was the old welfare state that was achieved at the same time by the reforming Labour Government after the war. I was brought up in a country that had truly "never had it so good" but have now lived to see our old concern for our fellow man, as manifested by that welfare state, being dismantled so that the rich may profit. Arthur Ransomehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15775858936238630182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-6353569511549994032013-10-04T06:47:51.085-04:002013-10-04T06:47:51.085-04:00I am very pleased that your president has taken su...I am very pleased that your president has taken such an important step to ensure that the American people have the right to health care. We are fortunate in Australia that we have free medical care. If you do not have private medical insurance you need to go on a waiting list for elective surgery only. We pay a medicare amount which is included in the amount of tax we pay, but the cost is very reasonable. For people on low incomes this payment is not required. If you also qualify for a health care card your medicines are generally about $3 for each script as long as they are on the national list which most medicines required for the majority of the populations are. Rosalienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-1201899486051388802013-10-03T23:58:53.646-04:002013-10-03T23:58:53.646-04:00You write with such intelligence. I too agree that...You write with such intelligence. I too agree that certain factions of our government is willing to let the middle class hurt, so as not to help the greater good. It's disguisting.<br /><br />Hope the Songwriter is healing nicely.Purple Flowershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05831681595310623140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-35072060561559536502013-10-03T21:18:22.080-04:002013-10-03T21:18:22.080-04:00It's not all about health care. It concerns p...It's not all about health care. It concerns power, control, taking freedom away and personal privacy. The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. George OrwellAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-7890252751954447832013-10-03T14:57:19.340-04:002013-10-03T14:57:19.340-04:00Do you think if only women, as all your readers se...Do you think if only women, as all your readers seem to be, were running this show we would have health care for all? Of course. I wish those middle age white guys would put aside there issues and for once do the humane thing - go back to work and leave the health care we so badly need to work it's way into our lives. You wrote an extremely well written comment, I just wish those guys in white shirts have an opportunity to read it. Thanks.Rose in Daytonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-26619288455776005852013-10-03T12:39:26.621-04:002013-10-03T12:39:26.621-04:00It was so interesting to hear of your experience i...It was so interesting to hear of your experience in the UK. Your cares and concerns about our health care "mess" here in the U.S. are well-stated. It is a very depressing situation for all of us!Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03627048113043386097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-88125772281412134872013-10-03T12:04:50.812-04:002013-10-03T12:04:50.812-04:00Pamela, I could not agree more with you about the ...Pamela, I could not agree more with you about the Affordable Health Care Act, sadly what was proposed is not what is actually going into effect. So far 26 states have decided not to expand MEdicare which will in turn offer less competitive and more expensive health care coverage to many.<br /><br />In fact there will be many many people that would love to have insurance and are willing to pay for it that will be unable to afford it under this new program.<br /><br />Our country should be ashamed that we have elected these bumbling, self-serving, selfish men and women whom I might add are still collecting six-figure salaries while the nation suffers. <br /><br />We should be outraged that the brave men and women protecting this country are only served two meals a day and the "hot" one is an MRE! We should be even more outraged that there are over 500,000 veterans who are in a back-log for benifits and care. <br /><br />And we should be afraid that our nations security is at risk because the people protecting us are considered "non-essential" workers!<br /><br />People, it is time for a change! We need to overhaul the House and Senate and get some of these dinosaurs out and elect new politicians that are willing to ACT and listen to what the citizens of this country are saying.<br /><br />Thank you for saying what many are thinking and for allowing us to say our piece as well. <br /><br />P.S: While my opinion may be different from some I care for this country and the people in it just as much as you. Elizabeth@ Pine Cones and Acornshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06044933540074342177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-48980829247267164562013-10-03T11:59:28.811-04:002013-10-03T11:59:28.811-04:00We have an excellent public health system in Spain...We have an excellent public health system in Spain, but the brilliant government we actually have is trying to privatize and dismantle it, only for the profit of their friends.Mónicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14444962364975171304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917331337767835985.post-25728677161579590602013-10-03T11:07:48.572-04:002013-10-03T11:07:48.572-04:00Excellent post, Pamela. I am going to share this w...Excellent post, Pamela. I am going to share this with my representatives and hope they can get their heads around your insightful message.<br />Best wishes for your husband's speedy recovery. <br />I love your blog! always well written and interesting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com