Congressman Cohen heard Elizabeth Edwards on the need for medical reform the law on bankruptcy

This morning, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law (CAL), chaired by Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), heard from Elizabeth Edwards, a leading voice for health care reform. She testified on the pressing need for medical bankruptcy reform. More than 107000 Ninth District residents, nearly 17 percent of our population, have no access to health insurance. An even greater number dont have enough health insurance. These families are one medical crisis away from losing their homes, their savings, in debt and they just can not leave the fallen. The only remedy is the registration of medical bankruptcy. Last year more than 4300 components that terrible decision.



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Dr. Rants favor health reform

Ed Uthman, MD, has been a practicing physician for 32 years and has worked in the health care field for 41 years, starting at age 16 as a nursing assistant in a 30-bed hospital. He is currently in private practice in Houston but previously worked in academic medicine. He is past-president of the Houston Society of Clinical Pathologists and has served as Deputy State Commissioner for Inspection and Accreditation of the College of American Pathologists. He holds a bachelor's degree in biology from Rhodes College and an MD degree from the University of Tennessee, Memphis. He is the author of the book, _Understanding Anemia_ (University Press of Mississippi, 1998). ADDENDUM By way of follow-up, the case of the 30-something woman I mentioned in the video turns out to be even worse than I suspected at the time. Further workup shows this tumor to be a sarcomatoid carcinoma of the gallbladder, which has invaded into her liver. Even if she got chemo and radiation now, any relief would be temporary; eventually the tumor would get her. HOWEVER, I spoke with her primary care physician yesterday, and he told me he saw her two years ago and made a diagnosis of gallstones. She was a candidate to have her gallbladder removed at the time, but the public hospital who is contracted to care for our county's poor had no beds, so she was not accepted. She continued to suffer with her pains until last week, when she came to my hospital with the cancer. Had her gallbladder been removed in 2007 ...



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