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Friday, 12 April 2013
Now it's personal: Obamacare guidelines eliminate funding for the treatment that saved my daughter's life
Barack Obama would have condemned my daughter to death. No, that's not an exaggeration. If he'd railroaded Obamacare through before she was born, it's quite likely she'd have died when she contracted a virus called RSV.
New guidelines issued by one of his Medicaid advisory boards eliminate payment for RSV treatment, calling the vaccine "unnecessary," because it costs too much. And when Medicaid speaks, insurance companies and doctors listen.
While there is no vaccine for RSV, there is an FDA-approved treatment available. When it became available in 1997, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued evidence-based guidelines for its use, recommending that the treatment be administered once per month during outbreak season (an average of five months total).
But in 2009, with no clear medical evidence for doing so, the AAP both shrunk the pool of eligible infants and reduced the number of RSV treatments that would be made available — for some babies down to 3 doses, while for others as low as 1 dose. The only clear reason given was cost.
Unfortunately, the AAP s guidelines are widely implemented by Medicaid and insurance providers, who in turn followed suit and greatly reduced coverage.
Sophie got RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus) soon after she was born. It was touch-and-go for a few days but she pulled through. Sleeping on the floor next to her hospital bed we did a lot of praying and a lot of worrying.
Left untreated, RSV causes pneumonia and weakens the heart and lungs. It hit Sophie hard, at first she could barely breathe, and the hospital had her on pure oxygen for days. Her doctors immediately prescribed a series of shots, along with inhaled steroids, for as long as she was susceptible to RSV.
Those shots saved her life.
And now Obamacare says paying for those shots isn't worth it. Really. Not. Worth. It. Because his kids never caught RSV? Or because he just doesn't care? There's no bloody shirt to wave for RSV victims. No RSV-control laws to browbeat Republicans with. Just 14,000 kids who die from it every year, none of whose parents were ever invited to the White House for a photo op.
So today a baby in her position probably won't get the same lifesaving treatment.
But remember, there are no Death Panels in Obamacare. There's just a cruel heartless asshole president who wouldn't lose 5 minutes of sleep even if his grand experiment in socialized medicine had killed my baby girl.
And to all you smug Democrats who re-elected him, I have to say "thanks." What's one more dead kid compared to your free birth control pills, right?
I hope all you liberals are happy. And I pray that your messianic lightworker
pinko president doesn't eventually decree something that could kill one of your
children. But you'll forgive me if I continue to do everything I can to ensure
that Sophie never, ever becomes a Democrat. Or marries one.
Posted at 10:52 by Chris Wysocki
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