N.I.C.E. Drug Prescription Overseers In Britain Said No To Cancer Patient!

March 14-2009:

N.I.C.E. Drug Prescription Overseers In Britain Said NO To Cancer Patient!

I watched a presentation or expose of an individual male cancer patient, who is terminally ill with cancer. But the above organization has refused to allow him to access medication, even when he has already been a contributor to the Social Security/National Insurance Authority all his working life.

Now he is two years in retirement, and is refused a much needed medication (to help him live) the remaining part of his physical life. But the above N.I.C.E. authorities have refused his claim, on the grounds that it would be useless and costly to do so, if he will eventually die anyway.

So what about HIV and AIDS patients? Are these people placed in this category too?

Even though (the world community at large) knows, that with the proper prescribed medications, and adherence to taking them as per prescription, prolongs the individual's life. And giving him or her a second chance to make something of his or her life, even though fatally infected with the HIV virus.

I am deeply concerned about this position taken by the N.I.C.E organization, and wonder if the priority is to save lives, or not save those that doctors say will die soon, or may surely die, regardless of whatever drug is prescribed.

If this is the attitude of the N.I.C.E. organization, then they should make it quite clear to the entire nation and their subscribers or clients, this unfortunate FACT.

Derryck S. Griffith
Educator-Advocate & Blogger.
New York City.

What Is A Pre-existing Condition?

March 11-2009:

What Is A Pre-existing Condition?

A pre-existing condition simply means the following:

* If someone intends to seek personal insurance for his/her health, he/she may be asked to declare any of the following ailments or health conditions prior to the moment he/she wants to be insured.

These ailments can be Diabetes, Heart failure, HIV/AIDS, Syphilis, Aneurism, Brain tumor, Prostate cancer, Cancer in general, Alzheimer, Parkinson disease, etc.

Almost every known malady to humans can debar anyone from being insured.

Insurance companies always justify their position by saying, the risks to insure persons with any of the above prior conditions are very severe indeed!

And those companies that allow it may require that the insured, pay enormous premiums in order to qualify.

That is why president Obama is trying to outlaw this pre-condition element, that would prevent any American from getting health insurance coverage period!

Derryck.
NYC.

President Obama Lifts The Ban On Stem Cell Research Funding!

March 09-2009:

Why Would Anyone Want To Prohibit The Research On Stem Cell Technology?

Embryonic Stem Cells are not human beings. They are the potential for a human to be developed. So why do some people feel that to use stem cells for scientific research, would be the killing of human life.

How ignorant could anyone be to hold this mis-informed view!

If we had put science on hold for moral and religious beliefs, Penicillin would not have been administered for syphilis, and the other related STD's that it has cured from the human organism for decades, since it's discovery.

As we speak, several nations are doing the same research in order to attain the knowledge that leads to cures for Parkinsons disease, cancer, and other dire diseases. And if we here in the USA continues to be repulsed by this study. Then rest assured, that if and when these cures become a reality, America will find itself purchasing the medications for our own domestic patients, at the tax payers expense.

So before anyone shouts never, never, we MUST stop and do some REAL and Objective thinking about this matter!

Derryck.
NYC.

PS: Incidentally, president Obama has lifted or repealed the ban that George W. Bush enacted, effective from today!