Cataracts Treatment

Question by Defender of America: If state-run health care (e.g. Medicare) is so great, why is so much NOT covered?
Just a few things that are NOT covered:

# dental care;

# hearing aids or the examinations for prescribing or fitting hearing aids (except for implants to treat severe hearing loss in some cases);

# long-term care, including personal care, such as help with bathing, toileting and dressing (unless homebound and receiving skilled care) and nursing home care (except in a skilled nursing facility if eligible);

# some preventive care, including most routine physical examinations and tests, immunizations, and routine foot care and eye care;

# vision (eye) care, including eyeglasses (except when following cataract surgery) and examinations for prescribing or fitting eyeglasses.

SOURCE: http://www.medicareinteractive.org/page2.php?topic=counselor&page=script&slide_id=215

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Answer by I drink your milkshake
Nothing prevents Medicare from covering those things if enough people made it clear to their representatives in the government that they want it to

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Question by Defender of America: If “public option” government-run health care (e.g. Medicare) is so great, why is so much NOT covered?
Just a few things that are NOT covered:

# dental care;

# hearing aids or the examinations for prescribing or fitting hearing aids (except for implants to treat severe hearing loss in some cases);

# long-term care, including personal care, such as help with bathing, toileting and dressing (unless homebound and receiving skilled care) and nursing home care (except in a skilled nursing facility if eligible);

# some preventive care, including most routine physical examinations and tests, immunizations, and routine foot care and eye care;

# vision (eye) care, including eyeglasses (except when following cataract surgery) and examinations for prescribing or fitting eyeglasses.

http://www.medicareinteractive.org/page2.php?topic=counselor&page=script&slide_id=215

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Answer by Stuart
Saudi Prince, Now Part Owner of Murdoch’s News Corp., Influences Fox News
Source: ThinkProgress.org, February 10, 2010

Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal now owns a 7 percent stake in Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., the parent company of Fox News, making him the company’s largest shareholder outside of Murdoch’s own family. Alwaleed is best known for going to Ground Zero after the 9/11 World Trade Center attacksand personally handing then-mayor Rudolph Giuliani a check for $ 10 million to help finance relief efforts. Afterwards, Alwaleed released a statement blaming the attacks not on the Saudi airline hijackers, but on U.S. policies in the middle east. As a result, Giuliani returned the prince’s donation, gaining him praise from Fox News for doing so. Now that Alwaleed has a controlling ownership in News Corp., he is gaining influence over Fox News. In 2005, just months after Alwaleed acquired his first 5.4 percent stake in News Corp., Fox News covered riots in Paris under a banner saying “Muslim riots.” Alwaleed allegedly called Murdoch and had him change the banner to say “Civil riots.” Investigative journalist Joseph Trento also reported that a comment he recently made on a Fox Network morning news show, Fox and Friends, about Saudi Arabian money still financing Al Qaeda, was edited out of the show. Trento also reports that Alwaleed “has personally donated huge amounts of money to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers.” In a rareinterview with Fox News’ Neil Cavuto in January, AlWaleed explained his personal reasons for seeking influence in American politics: the U.S. buys Saudi Arabia’s oil, and the bulk of his country’s gross domestic product (GDP) comes from oil. Fox News reliably broadcasts misinformation on clean energy, and aggressively fights efforts to move America away from being dependent on a fossil fuels.

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Question by jbeethoven_359: Are these supposedly “false advices” regarding proper eye care really untrue? What do you think?
As I was reading Joyce M. Black’s Medical Surgical Nursing, 7th Edition, I read a boxed article which caught my attention. The article read as follows:

Common Misconception about vision and the Eyes

The following statements are often passed along as “advice.” All of the following are false:

1. Reading in the dark is harmful to the eyes
2. Children will outgrow crossed eyes.
3. A cataract is a film growing over the surface of the eye.
4. Cataracts must ripen before they are removed.
5. The surgeon takes out the eye to operate it.
6. A person with failing eyesight should avoid reading to save the eyes.
7. Children must be cautioned not to sit too close to the television.
8. Wearing someone else’s eyeglasses may damage your eyes.
9. Misuse of the eyes in childhood results in the need for eyeglasses later in life.
10. Cataracts can be removed by a laser.
11. Emotional stress increases intraocular pressure.

I know that some of the items presented are actually fallacious… but I’ve always though of items number 1, 7, 8 and 9 as facts. How come these items are actually false?

Please tell me what you think. As much as possible, please give scientific rationales.

Thank you and good day!

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Answer by gazeygoo
I absolutely agree with all statements except for number 5, the eye is often sort of lifted from it’s socket during some eye surgeries, not taken out but sort of lifted up.

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Question by Chris C: Does anyone know of a good place for eye care for dogs?
I have been to American Animal Eye Care Center and Eye Care for Animals _Tustin and they have given me two different ways to handle my 7 1/2 year old Cockapoo cataracts. Has anyone had any experience with either place positive or negative and do you know another eye care for dogs in the Long Beach, OC area or surrounding areas? Help!!!!?

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Answer by panache
The eye clinic in Tustin is good,the clinic in La Habra I have used for years but haven’t been there since the new vet has bought it.http://www.vshsd.com/Specialties-Ophthalmology/
http://www.cavaliersofthewest.org/COTWHealthClinic2008Final.pdf
This vet is well thought of by friends

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Question by newsbusters.org: Will you miss our health care system once the government takes it?
Let’s look at this rationing of health care, what some advocates may call a “conservative lie.” Victims of this system don’t believe it’s a lie. Take, for example, Lindsey McCreith[ii], a Canadian with a brain tumor. He would have been forced to wait nearly a year for surgery in Canada, thus he had to fly to Buffalo, NY, to a capitalist hospital for lifesaving surgery paid for out of his own pocket. Or check with Dunil Almeida[iii] a man whose bowel cancer went undetected for 18 months by the NHS despite his 50—yes, fifty—visits to various government doctors. Not to mention women dying of cancer while waiting for treatments,[iv] blind women being refused treatment,[1] and legions of other complaints that abound in “universal” health care systems in Europe.
“But, Will, that’s anecdotal!” Alright, fair enough. Let’s look at it empirically. In the United States 5% of patients have to wait more than four months for surgery. That’s much lower than Australia’s 23%, New Zealand’s 26%, the 27% figure in Canada, and an astounding 36% margin in Great Britain.[2] That’s between an eighteen and thirty-one percentage point difference.
Hearing aid waiting lists in England are 72 weeks[3], waiting lists for heart surgeries in British Columbia are three months,[4] transplants take nearly that long.[5] Median wait times for emergency cardiac surgery are five days,[6] cataract surgeries wait four months,[7] the University of Amsterdam says 100 patients die annually[8] on government waiting lists for heart surgery, prompting the Dutch health minister to admit in 2002 that people are dying while waiting on the government. Often head and neck cancer patients wait five months for surgery.

http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/RL34175_20070917.pdf

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Answer by War Kittens?
hell no. What health care?

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