Posted by gary g on May 08, 1999 at 09:33:12:
In Reply to: Re: Cluster Convention: Revisited posted by Lee M. on May 08, 1999 at 03:15:40:
afraid I must agree w/Lee
it's fun to gripe about BUT
believe me - if we really WERE a potential source of profit, they'd be all over CH like stink on ....well you know what I mean
we aren't even a flyspeck on a drug company's Loran screen
it just SEEMS to us that there are a gillion of us, because we are discovering we're not each a unique nutcase, as they've been telling us for years
hell, until a majority of the Drs agree there really IS such a thing as CH, the drug cos won't go near it on it's own merits
best plan is to push at validating insurance coverage of what already exists and is known to help to some extent, as well as PUSH at educating the docs (see next post about that)
my strategy is to invest drug co stocks
which pay REAL good returns,
then use the $$ to pay for the CH meds,
and I get to retain the actual investment $$
I figure there's no way I'M gonna change the outrageous health care funding/allocation system, so why not endrun it
sorta like refundable insurance
(and yes, I know - many of us can't buy stock - I couldn't until this year, closing fast on 50th BDay - but it IS a strategy AND pretty funny)