Mesothelioma Support for Ailing Relatives

A diagnosis of mesothelioma cancer is scary and overwhelming. A support system including a medical team of doctors, nurses, pharmacists, friends, families, counselors, religious leaders, and other mesothelioma victims can help to provide mesothelioma ailing relatives
with the support they need during such a devastating time in their lives.
Mesothelioma support groups have been established throughout the country to help mesothelioma patients cope with challenges associated with their disease. This is a way for mesothelioma suffers to reach out to other mesothelioma victims and share their own experiences with their asbestos exposure and mesothelioma cancer and build a support system.
Family members can get compensation for asbestos related illnesses, personal injury, and wrongful death mesothelioma cases. The mesothelioma attorney must be a specialist in personal injury and wrongful death cases as well as experience in cases involving asbestos exposure and mesothelioma. If a family member is affected by mesothelioma, a lawyer would file a wrongful death lawsuit on your behalf and get you monetary compensation for your loss and suffering. However, compensation will vary depending on many factors such as the details of the case, what companies are involved, and the laws of your particular state.
Mesothelioma patients and families are usually faced with high medical expenses and future financial uncertainties. In addition to having to deal with the physical and emotional stress resulting from mesothelioma can leave families feeling frustrated and overwhelmed. To ease the stress and financial burden, mesothelioma patients and loved ones can seek financial compensation from the companies responsible.
Treatments of mesothelioma which may include surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, experimental treatment, surgery, and drug therapy among other treatments are extremely expensive and can leave family members devastated Medical expenses could quickly mount up and overwhelm family members of mesothelioma sufferer. To find out more about mesothelioma family compensation contact a mesothelioma attorney to know your rights and get the help you truly deserve.

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Poll: Most Americans Don’t Support Health Care Reform Repeal

Many politicians in Washington continue to go through the motions of repealing the health care reform bill that became law last year. I say “go through the motions” because the health insurance industry doesn’t want the law repealed, just tweaked a bit. And it’s hard to imagine that a majority of Congress would ignore what the health insurance industry wants, no matter what they’re telling their constituents.

In the 2010 midterms many politicians ran on the promise of “repeal and replace” and won their elections.  On the other hand, Americans, including those suffering from mesothelioma, seem to want something done about the old system, which has left millions of Americans uninsured while costs spiral out of control.

Politicians who are pushing for repeal of last year’s health reform law claim that’s what the American people want. However, a new poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health says otherwise.

The claim that a majority of Americans want repeal is based on polls that show a majority have an unfavorable view of the law, and the new poll shows this, also. However, what the Kaiser/Harvard poll reveals is that a substantial number of people who disapprove of the law want it expanded, not repealed.

The poll found that 43 percent of Americas do want repeal — 23 percent of this group wants the law repealed and replaced with a Republican alternative, and 20 percent want it repealed and not replaced.

However, 28 percent of respondents do not want the law repealed, but expanded. Another 19 percent want it left as it is. That’s 47 percent against repeal, versus 43 percent for repeal.

Of course, 43 percent is a sizable minority. But when pollsters tried to determine exactly what about the law people  don’t like, the picture gets murkier. Many provisions of the bill are popular even among the group that wants repeal.

For example, 85 percent approve of seniors who have fallen into the Medicare “doughnut hole” getting discounted prescription medications; 79 percent approve of subsidies to help lower-income Americans buy insurance; 66 percent approve of regulating insurance companies so that at least 85 percent of premiums are paid out in benefits.

On the other hand, many of the things people say they don’t like about the health care reform law reveal confusion about the law. More than half of those polled seem to believe the bill allows government bureaucrats to dictate what health care they will receive, which is no more true than it was before the bill was passed.  Six in ten Americans think the health care reform law will increase the deficit over the next ten years, but the Congressional Budget Office has said the law will reduce the deficit by $1.3 billion dollars.

The single most unpopular part of the bill is the individual mandate, which goes into effect in 2014. The mandate requires that most Americans obtain health insurance or pay a penalty. But when it’s explained that the mandate is necessary if insurance companies may no longer deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions, the “favorable” percentage for the mandate goes from 23 percent to 46 percent.

Pro-reform politicians think people will be won over to health care reform once they understand what it is and how it works. The danger is that it will probably take a few years for that to happen, and in the meantime anti-reform politicians will be working to weaken the bill by dismantling the parts the insurance industry doesn’t like. Full repeal is extremely unlikely, however.

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