MS Advocates Split With Romney Over Obamacare
People with multiple sclerosis have treasured Ann Romney as an advocate. But her husband's policies are bad news for them.>> But there's a problem: MS advocates say that policies Romney now supports would be detrimental for many MS sufferers, and they are actively opposing these proposals. Which means that Mitt Romney is now at odds with the MS community he and his wife have long supported.
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Romney has pledged to "repeal and replace" the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. He also would turn Medicaid, the government health care plan for children and the poor, into a block grant, a plan that would ultimately cut millions from the program. And when he promises to replace Obamacare, Romney has offered only a few weak substitutes, such as capping damages in malpractice lawsuits. All of this would have tremendous implications for people with multiple sclerosis.
The MS Society is actively opposing the repeal of Obamacare, which it enthusiastically supported (just as it did with Romneycare in Massachusetts). "There are so many provisions in the health law that are beneficial to people with chronic illness, including MS," Thompson says. "To do a wholesale repeal would be a real setback. MS is a very expensive disease to have, unlike cancer, where you either get cured or pass away." He explains that MS can cost sufferers about $70,000 a year, half of which is attributed to medical costs. That's one reason why the new health care law is so critical to people with MS: The law ends lifetime limits on insurance coverage, which someone with MS can quickly burn through.
The new law also has a host of measures that will help people with chronic illness live better lives. It includes requirements that insurers sufficiently cover habilitation services, which include physical and occupational therapy and other measures that can help slow the progression of chronic diseases and keep people in the workforce and out of government programs. Thompson says that requiring coverage of those services is "not only the right thing to do, but it saves money because we're not letting the disease deteriorate so quickly."
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/08/mitt-ann-romney-multiple-sclerosis
We need to get the word on this out there folks!
Can you say CONFLICT OF INTEREST as I had previously read that Ann Romney was as on their Board of Directors in 2011?
Thanks for your attention to this and please, keep this one going!!!
THANK YOU!!!
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I will fight.
I have this crap illness and this makes me feel half-sick to death!!!
What a damn fraud RMOMEY is!!!
I am one of the "fortunate" ones with this disease. I can still walk, talk, see and type to a point. I'm nothing like I once was but I am still here.
They can seal the box shut when I stop fighting as I'll be long dead by that time!
Thanks for the hug!! 
When will the sheeple awaken?
Will it be too late?
I hope to god not!
Usually the MS Society never says anything about anything from what I've observed over the years.
I too am glad that they have taken a strong position on this! 
I'm in a similar boat except the household income here is at poverty level. It has been at poverty level for many years so I guess I'm used to it.
No one with MS ever gets much being most people with this crap get DX'd in their prime in life as I was. Suddenly, BOOM, and that is the end of your "career" whatever it may have been.
And to think this fraud RMONEY just wants more for himself and his ilk.
As for Ann Romney, she is his two-bit shill. I feel sorry for anyone with this illness, even her, but to be using her public persona to promote a two-bit fraud like RMONEY is beyond sickening!
I can only say this much, I hope the RMONEY'S lose and lose badly and never come back to any level of "public service". Greed mongers like this (sick or not sick) deserve nothing as in zero and they do nothing to promote the well-being of the public et al. 
