Did anyone see Cindy McCain on the today show this morning???

[ejpoeta]

Apparently she has migranes... and she was on there to talk about how we need to find a cure for migraines and how she spent many years missing out on her life because of migraines which had gone misdiagnosed for YEARS!! I was not happy.... i kept thinking.... well out loud... LOL! poor little rich girl!! she would talk about having these migraines for weeks at a time and how debilitating they are. Gee, imagine if instead of being a rich person who can go for weeks at a time without going to a job or doing anything you are a poor or middle class woman who HAS to take care of the kids and/or go to a job or else you will have nothing. And now imagine that you don't have insurance to go to a doctor to be diagnosed.... I have migraines myself... my oldest sister has had them for years as well... and they ARE debilitating and i wouldn't wish them on anyone... even cindy mccain... but I don't really care about her experience unless it will help the rest of us!!

They asked her about obama's speech tonight and healthcare reform, and while she said that something needs to be done.... she also said she agrees with her husband about it. Well, of course... she can afford to. she has the money to go to doctors and get diagnosed and not lose everything because of an illness.... or lose a job because you can't work because you have migraines that you couldn't even get diagnosed with because you don't have insurance or your insurance won't pay for it or for the medicine that you could take to prevent it.

OK. i am done now.

[Nikki Stone1]

1. I recommend your rant!

I think it hits the nail on the head.

[Ian David]

2. At least Obama doesn't plaster on the make up like a trollop. n/t

[lunatica]

3. K&R

Sadly it seems that the Republicans still don't empathize even when it happens to them. What kind of a patent ignores his child's migraines?

[Historic NY]

4. You mean all that wine & free RX drugs didn't help her,,amazing with her money.

[hobbit709]

5. Poor little Cindy

:nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity:

[boobooday]

6. She has never, ever, wondered how she will find health care when she needs it

The definition of privilege.

[theoldman]

7. Migraine headaches strike rich and poor alike.

They are debilitating and there is no cure to the best of my knowledge. Even a mild headache can ruin your day. A severe headache can make you want to shoot yourself in order to get away from the pain.

[goclark]

8. "......migraines which had gone misdiagnosed for YEARS"

Help me out, isn't it fairly easy for a top physician to know the symtoms of a migraine?

[Warpy]

11. I think rich women who don't do useful work actually get more

of the pat on the head and dismissal treatment than women who work real jobs do. Our wealthy sisters are treated the way suburban housewives were treated in the 50s, just give her some tranquilizers to shut her up and send her home to the kitchen (well, charity circuit).

In other words, I'm not at all surprised she went undiagnosed for years.

I'm a little surprised a physician finally did his job and took her seriously.

[ejpoeta]

12. well, i went to the doctor for a headache I couldn't get rid of that I had had for at least a week.

i thought it was a sinus headache, but the sinus medicine wasn't working. they asked if I was sensitive to light and noise and I said yes and they said I had migraines. doesn't seem THAT hard to figure out, i guess.

[blondeatlast]

16. Remember that she was on some pretty heavy narcotics for a while.

You know, the ones she obtained ILLEGALLY. She probably had the headaches then, they just didn't bother her as much.

[Mojorabbit]

26. Not always

I had atypical migraine symptoms before moving on to classical ones. I got the "It is all in your head hysterical woman treatment" till "extensive migraine disease" showed up on MRI. Same with the MS. Women many times are not taken seriously by the medical community.

[goclark]

27. thanks, I didn't know that ~ nt

[BlueMTexpat]

9. I suffered from terrible migraines for years too and I remember how I

was actually told by doctors in my youth that they would go away after I had had a couple children! (That sexist advice didn't work, by the way.)
I did begin to understand much later that, in my case at least, there were generally environmental triggers and that my own migraines often originated as sinus headaches in reaction to different allergens. Knowing that, I am able to manage them much better and, especially since the infamous "change," am much less affected.
The worst allergen of all was, and still is, secondhand cigarette smoke, especially where smoke residue has permeated the curtains and furniture in rooms. I try to avoid such situations at all costs, but sometimes have no choice and have to pay the price.

*******
While I wouldn't wish that pain on anyone else ever, if Cindy McCain cannot see the connection between all the options for treatment that she has had and how her husband's position on health care denies those same options to others, then I am not interested in anything she has to say and I will not waste any sympathy on her.

[hlthe2b]

10. How many have migraines--debilitating, nauseating, suffering-

inducing migraines (and predominantly women) who risk loss of jobs if they stay home, or even if they somehow find the strength to try to work (despite wanting very much to die when the pain is at its worse). Stress then becomes a secondary trigger, creating a vicious cycle. Fear of financial ruin, oblivious employers who think they are just wimps with a common headache, health care providers who have not a clue how to effectively differentiate and treat migraine--if they are even fortunate enough to have access to health care....

No, Cindy McCain, I have little sympathy for you, but an entire universe of concern for the average migraine sufferer

[deaniac21]

13. Migraines are all in your head.

[grace0418]

14. "...We have the best healthcare system in the world!" said the billionaire heiress who's

never had to spend one day worrying about how to pay for doctor bills, or whether her insurance would cover her condition, or whether she was going to lose her job because of sick days.

That royally pissed me off. I went through a period of having migraines too. They absolutely ARE completely debilitating. It doesn't matter what is going on around you, how important the days activities are, or where you need to be that day. You're done. You're out for the count. But FUCK HER AND THE GOLD-PLATED HORSE SHE RODE IN ON if she is going to try to tell me we have the best healthcare system in the world.

Thank you for posting this, ejpoeta. I'm so sorry you and your sister deal with these. :hug:

[ejpoeta]

19. yeah that pissed me off too. what a load of crap!! that's why we are like, what...

50th!! it's a load of malarkey. just because you say it doesn't make it true... and what good is it even if it IS the best in the world if no one can use it!!! just makes a person want to throttle someone. maybe take her out of her seven houses and take all her money away... throw her in the street and say, now go survive like the rest of us without your money, and senator husband and his healthcare plan and everything else!!

[grace0418]

21. That's the Republican way, though. Say something enough times and it becomes true.

Whether or not it's demonstrably false matters little.

[argyl]

24. What we have is the best health care money can buy,Cindy,not "best in the world."

Well,as long as you can afford it the hell with everyone else,right? Just keep having your private physician write you those scripts for whatever heavy duty dope you're on for your migraines,take your pills,and STFU.

We who weren't born to wealth have more pressing worries than that of a princess with a pea under her mattress.

[abluelady]

15. I Do Not Watch the Today Show?

Did anyone ask her how the millions of poor working people go to work with a migraine? Did anyone ask her how much the medication for migrains would cost the uninsured. Just curious?

[ejpoeta]

20. oh no. there were no questions about any of that.. or about how regular folks

are supposed to be able to go to their doctor to be diagnosed much less treated without health insurance or after they are denied by the existing system that allows that bull. of course they weren't going to ask her any of that!!

[abluelady]

28. That's What I Expected

you to say, which is why I don't watch that morning show!

[DeeDeeNY]

17. The medical expenses for John McCain's first wife after her accident

were paid for by Ross Perot.

http://crooksandliars.com/2008/06/10/meet-john-mccains-wife-no-not-that-one

[olegramps]

18. Is that the Cindy that McCain referred to as a C...t?

[Javaman]

22. She looks like the crypt keeper. nt

[Paper Roses]

23. Hearts and flowers, as my father used to say.

I' sure she has absolutely no idea what it is like for all of us. In one way or another, it seems as though we're all getting screwed by the system. Poor Cindy.

For years I paid for an individual policy, found that too expensive, dropped it and found jobs that would pay for part of my insurance so I could have coverage.

Luckily I have not been sick so I was able to use the insurance to cover office visits, paying the co-pay. Same for routine testing. Mammograms and pap tests required no co-pays.

Now comes Medicare. I still pay $97.00 each month, now have a deductible every year, pay for office visits after the Doc's office bills Medicare and I get the balance. Costs about $65.00 a visit. That is just the doctors visit. No tests, nothing else.

Now comes the kicker. I have reached the point that I need to have a Colonoscopy. I can't afford it.

The hospital and Doctors bill would be too much for me. With just SS as income, I do not have the money. Supplements and drug coverage are out of the question. I have had to decline the procedure because I can't pay the bill I will get.

The government is dictating how I spend the last years of my life. Medicare is fine if you have the rest of it. If you don't, it is just a way to help pay for what could be a huge bill.

All of us would have great insurance if we could afford it. I do want folks to realize that Medicare is not the best there is. Yes, better than nothing but you still have to pay for it monthly and, unless you can buy the rest of the package, you are still going without a lot and running a high risk.

I bet the greatest worry Cindy has is what new shoes she will buy today. Dad was right. Hearts and Flowers.

[freeplessinseattle]

25. I pay $200 a month for Imitrex-9 tablets

and even that's not really enough some months, just enough to get me functional enough to work. What really sucks is laying there in agony knowing you need to make money to afford the meds to relieve the pain, and trying to take just enough to help, but not quite enough bc it's so expensive. If I don't take enough tho I miss work and can't afford to the meds to be functional enough to work to pay for the meds...aagh. makes the migraine worse at times stressing about it.

[Danascot]

29. She should try sex and pot

oh, right she's a republican so those are out.