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StephN · 10-25-2008, 01:25 PM

I agree that asking the Feds to come up with a one plan fits all is like asking for the sun.
We have 50 states and they each have their own state-run health system for poorer and uninsured people.

In my state we don't have an income tax - only a sales tax, but that does not include food items.

Our state is now in the hole and the "rainy day" fund has been spent. Our county is cutting jobs by the dozens in each department. Our Sheriff announced job cuts last week.

Since we depend on the sales tax and people are buying less, the state has less money for its current budget, let alone next year.

Hubby and I made a Costco run last night and I have never seen the lines so short or the carts with so few items! We even spent less than $150.

Hope the Smart People can figure a way out of this one.

10-25-2008, 01:25 PM	#7
StephN Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Misty woods of WA State Posts: 4,128	I agree that asking the Feds to come up with a one plan fits all is like asking for the sun. We have 50 states and they each have their own state-run health system for poorer and uninsured people. In my state we don't have an income tax - only a sales tax, but that does not include food items. Our state is now in the hole and the "rainy day" fund has been spent. Our county is cutting jobs by the dozens in each department. Our Sheriff announced job cuts last week. Since we depend on the sales tax and people are buying less, the state has less money for its current budget, let alone next year. Hubby and I made a Costco run last night and I have never seen the lines so short or the carts with so few items! We even spent less than $150. Hope the Smart People can figure a way out of this one. __________________ "When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest." H.D. Thoreau Live in the moment. MY STORY SO FAR ~~~~ Found suspicious lump 9/2000 Lumpectomy, then node dissection and port placement Stage IIB, 8 pos nodes of 18, Grade 3, ER & PR - Adriamycin 12 weekly, taxotere 4 rounds 36 rads - very little burning 3 mos after rads liver full of tumors, Stage IV Jan 2002, one spot on sternum Weekly Taxol, Navelbine, Herceptin for 27 rounds to NED! 2003 & 2004 no active disease - 3 weekly Herceptin + Zometa Jan 2005 two mets to brain - Gamma Knife on Jan 18 All clear until treated cerebellum spot showing activity on Jan 2006 brain MRI & brain PET Brain surgery on Feb 9, 2006 - no cancer, 100% radiation necrosis - tumor was still dying Continue as NED while on Herceptin & quarterly Zometa Fall-2006 - off Zometa - watching one small brain spot (scar?) 2007 - spot/scar in brain stable - finished anticoagulation therapy for clot along my port-a-catheter - 3 angioplasties to unblock vena cava 2008 - Brain and body still NED! Port removed and scans in Dec. Dec 2008 - stop Herceptin - Vaccine Trial at U of W begun in Oct. of 2011 STILL NED everywhere in Feb 2014 - on wing & prayer 7/14 - Started twice yearly Zometa for my bones Jan. 2015 checkup still shows NED 2015 Neuropathy in feet - otherwise all OK - still NED. Same news for 2016 and all of 2017. Nov of 2017 - had small skin cancer removed from my face. Will have Zometa end of Jan. 2018.