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Is this a good example of federally a controlled health care system?


Legislation was passed in 1994 to fund the Ryan White foundation 100% and called it ADAP (AIDS Drug Assistance Program).
The article written guaranteed high profits to pharmaceutical companies and HIV units/clinics and also guaranteed all HIV people will only be treated by 鈥渕edical personnel with their primary office in an ADAP approved clinic or unit.鈥?No other diease has these guarantees and one can seek stabilization anywhere in the USA where as those with HIV/AIDS must migrate to states that have clinics (and this gives the false illusion that some states have no incidence of HIV while others such as NY and NJ maintain a high rate of infections).
Currently 790 billion dollars annually of federal tax dollars (not including state or non profit) is designated to HIV/AIDS. Our tax dollars pays for research, lobbied guaranteed high profits for (鈥渆xperimental drugs鈥?that each infected person releases all involved from responsibility of side effects) and health care to a select population (women, children, men under 24 years old, men with a dependant child or married).
Bill Clinton鈥檚 non-profit HIV organization lobbies for the same drugs (that our tax dollar pays $900 - $3000 per drug/per infected person/ per month living in the USA) to be sold to Africa for $80 or close to double the actual cost of producing each drug and 鈥淔ormer U.S. President Bill Clinton's foundation will begin by August giving drugs, diagnostic equipment and hospital management expertise to China to ease its HIV/AIDS problem, a program director said Thursday.鈥?Clinton Foundation to help China with AIDS problem BEIJING, June 17 Kyodo, 2004. Can be viewed at Bnet.com
Since ADAP guarantees high fixed prices for HIV treatment (regulates that non-HIV approved medical staff may not treat HIV) an average person who is diagnosed with HIV cannot afford to compete with ADAP鈥檚 prices nor can many insurance companies that are allowed to drop customers because there is a special federally funded insurance plan, ADAP, BUT ADAP requires that to be eligible, ones household income must be less than 200% of national poverty level and that person must live in the district of an approved ADAP clinic.
Questions: (This is not rhetorical, I would like someone with similar knowledge to tell me your take on this).
1) Isn鈥檛 the reason most people with HIV/AIDS are poor is because of our government health plan since 1994? Do we want to do this for all diseases?
2) Why does Bill Clinton promote America paying for the entire world鈥檚 treatment of HIV while allowing our own nation to regulate where one must live to get treated or if a single adult male- not get treated.
3) Isn鈥檛 this a good example of a federally funded health plan? (Every state can have a state bird and a state disease).
**If you are going to argue these facts please look up ADAP at sights such as AVERT.ORG or research it, rather than crossing your fingers and hoping the person you are voting for wouldn鈥檛 enforce such an injustice and making a comment such as 鈥測ou need to understand health care billing better鈥?

Bill Clinton was seeking the gay vote and promised if elected he would use federal tax dollars to fund Ryan White 100%. After getting this community's support/vote, he kept his promise, but allowed the plan to write articles that made adult single men ineligible- in other words he made sure neither Ryan White nor ADAP helped gay men.

Should ask Hillary of her opinion?

Bingo, except for one thing, your taxes will go up 300-400 dollars a month per person and you have to participate, it will be mandatory whether you have the money to pay your other bills or not, because it will be taken out of your check before you get any money.

The plan outlined by Hillary in Iowa would require all to have insurance at an affordable rate and would not allow insurance companies to drop people from being insured because of illness.

Thank you for making me aware of this outrageous manipulation by government. This is further proof our representatives have catered to insurance companies and their stock holders. Rather than causing existing insurance to insure all and allowing them to drop ill customers.

This is just rubbish. In the UK we have national health and our taxes are nowhere near as high as you seem to think they are (no doubt you've been fed lies by your right wing media).

Plus we only pay taxes - you pay taxes PLUS healthcare insurance, PLUS deductibles, co-pays etc etc. I think you;ll find you are already paying more than we are. And yet we have the right to access healthcare whenever we need it, regardless of cost. Do you?

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