Cancer Compass accepts ad revenue from the NCPA

On the home page of this website you will find a prominently placed advertisement for a petition, sponsored by the National Center for Policy Analysis, a non-profit conservative think tank funded by the insurance industry. The petition is an anti-health care reform advertisement. I personally feel this is inappropriate for this kind of website and I question where the directors of Cancer Compass place their loyalty, with the insurance industry or with patients and caregivers?

As a caregiver who regularly contributes to the Brain Cancer forum on this site, my concerns beyond health issues are with securing health care for my wife. Right now lots of us are suffering due to the lack of health care, and pre-existing conditions are discriminated against for those who lose their insurance due to job loss, often the result of falling ill. Survivors can be left with no coverage, facing poverty because they fought to live.

We live in the richest democracy on Earth, the fact that we are being discriminated against in this fashion when it comes to the most important asset we have, our health is an outrage and must change NOW.

I see this advertisement by the NCPA as anti-reform, which it is. If your view agrees with the NCPA, so be it, but it's partisan presence has no place on a website dedicated to patients and their caregivers in my humble opinion. Where does Cancer Compass stand?

 

On 8/26/2009 Brandon-cg wrote:

On the home page of this website you will find a prominently placed advertisement for a petition, sponsored by the National Center for Policy Analysis, a non-profit conservative think tank funded by the insurance industry. The petition is an anti-health care reform advertisement. I personally feel this is inappropriate for this kind of website and I question where the directors of Cancer Compass place their loyalty, with the insurance industry or with patients and caregivers?

As a caregiver who regularly contributes to the Brain Cancer forum on this site, my concerns beyond health issues are with securing health care for my wife. Right now lots of us are suffering due to the lack of health care, and pre-existing conditions are discriminated against for those who lose their insurance due to job loss, often the result of falling ill. Survivors can be left with no coverage, facing poverty because they fought to live.

We live in the richest democracy on Earth, the fact that we are being discriminated against in this fashion when it comes to the most important asset we have, our health is an outrage and must change NOW.

I see this advertisement by the NCPA as anti-reform, which it is. If your view agrees with the NCPA, so be it, but it's partisan presence has no place on a website dedicated to patients and their caregivers in my humble opinion. Where does Cancer Compass stand?

I believe it has every right to be here and to give people a choice in what they want.  No one said you had to sign it.

And yes I am totally against government run health care.  The US has the best system/care of anywhere in the world as far as I'm concerned and I want to have and keep the right to make my own choices about MY health and my treatments, not have someone tell me what, when, or even IF they will allow me the treatments.

 

On 8/26/2009 Chessie wrote:

 

On 8/26/2009 Brandon-cg wrote:

On the home page of this website you will find a prominently placed advertisement for a petition, sponsored by the National Center for Policy Analysis, a non-profit conservative think tank funded by the insurance industry. The petition is an anti-health care reform advertisement. I personally feel this is inappropriate for this kind of website and I question where the directors of Cancer Compass place their loyalty, with the insurance industry or with patients and caregivers?

As a caregiver who regularly contributes to the Brain Cancer forum on this site, my concerns beyond health issues are with securing health care for my wife. Right now lots of us are suffering due to the lack of health care, and pre-existing conditions are discriminated against for those who lose their insurance due to job loss, often the result of falling ill. Survivors can be left with no coverage, facing poverty because they fought to live.

We live in the richest democracy on Earth, the fact that we are being discriminated against in this fashion when it comes to the most important asset we have, our health is an outrage and must change NOW.

I see this advertisement by the NCPA as anti-reform, which it is. If your view agrees with the NCPA, so be it, but it's partisan presence has no place on a website dedicated to patients and their caregivers in my humble opinion. Where does Cancer Compass stand?

I believe it has every right to be here and to give people a choice in what they want.  No one said you had to sign it.

And yes I am totally against government run health care.  The US has the best system/care of anywhere in the world as far as I'm concerned and I want to have and keep the right to make my own choices about MY health and my treatments, not have someone tell me what, when, or even IF they will allow me the treatments.

 

Then perhaps there should be an alternative petition offered for those who want reform on this same site, just so there is no partisan bias? Then people would be free to not sign either one. I guess I would like to point out that when you have a pre-existing condition, you don't get to make your own choices if you loose your coverage. Your only choice is to pay cash or go without. Maybe you don't suffer from this lack of choice but millions of people do. I find it sad but not surprising to see that an Insurance Industry funded organization uses fear to persuade the public. Most of the arguments I hear about this topic are simply not founded in any real truth. If it sounds scary, it's probably designed to be and lacks in real facts.

I feel the ad should go

this is not a political sight and should stay that way

my 2cents:

we spend 2X all other industrial nation and do not do as well for our citizens as they do

Something is broken!!!!!!!!!!!!

john 

Chessie,

People like you scare the he** out of me!  You are woefully uneducated and you seem to be proud of that fact.  You also seem to be lacking in compassion for the rest of the country's problems and care about no one except yourself.  The only way to assure that health insurance companies do the right, moral and legal thing is to make sure they have NON-PROFIT competition in the form of single payor coverage provided by the federal government.  No other entity is equipped to handle this huge problem, particularly when the profit motive is removed, as it should be.  Health insurance companies are in business for only one reason, they are FOR PROFIT and they have stock holders who expect to see dividend checks at the end of the fiscal year.  Their premiums have to be high to pay both the claims they receive and the dividends.  Anyone capable of logical reasoning can easily deduce why health care for the US population must sooner or later have the profit motive removed or else it will be forever doomed to failure.

Brandon, I agree with you 100%.

Joan L     

 

On 8/26/2009 Joan l wrote:

Chessie,

People like you scare the he** out of me!  You are woefully uneducated and you seem to be proud of that fact.  You also seem to be lacking in compassion for the rest of the country's problems and care about no one except yourself.  The only way to assure that health insurance companies do the right, moral and legal thing is to make sure they have NON-PROFIT competition in the form of single payor coverage provided by the federal government.  No other entity is equipped to handle this huge problem, particularly when the profit motive is removed, as it should be.  Health insurance companies are in business for only one reason, they are FOR PROFIT and they have stock holders who expect to see dividend checks at the end of the fiscal year.  Their premiums have to be high to pay both the claims they receive and the dividends.  Anyone capable of logical reasoning can easily deduce why health care for the US population must sooner or later have the profit motive removed or else it will be forever doomed to failure.

Brandon, I agree with you 100%.

Joan L     

Joan,

I guess it's a tie then because people like you are the ones that scare me.  Where do you think the money is going to come from to provide all this medical service to the milliions of illegals in this country.  TAXES

There are some issues with the industry granted, but there are going to be even bigger and worse issues if we go to government run and controlled insurance.  Look what happened to Social Security.  Thank God I don't have to deal with that.  But many do and they can't even rely on next month's check, let alone any time in the future.  It will be bankrupt in less than 10 years. 

And you are obviously young or you would be concerned about the elderly in this country that will have NO alternatives if it goes to government control.  And you can kiss the specialists goodbye.... there won't be any!  And even if there were you could be dead before you got in to see one of them.  The government can't even run the VA and do it right. 

People need to open their eyes before it is too late.

 

 

 

Joan,