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Old 10-03-2010, 01:41 PM
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I suppose the insurance companies haven't heard of the practice in medical treatment called informed consent. All of the medications list some potential side effects. After having been advised of this risk, the patient has the choice to accept the risk or not - but it sounds like the insurance companies want to usurp that choice. The drug Dave took had side effects he experienced them and determined that he did not want to suffer that risk. Doctors give advice, people consider the pluses and minuses of that advice and decide whether to take it.

I suppose the political issue is that people want to decide which insurance company is going to tell them how to run their lives.

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D-Ray
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