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Re: Long-term care insurance.


>>Of course long term care insurance is unavailable for my husband, the
>>parkinsonian, or any other person with parkinson disease.  However, I
>>realized it might be important for me to have this, while i can still
>>acquire it.  Only healthy people need apply.  The reasoning behind it is
>>that  my husband could not care for me should I break a limb
>>or become incapacitated in other ways.  The future does not look
>>promising for adequate health care for the elderly.
>>Perhaps someone has a solution to this problem.
>
>This may be some what off-tangent, and i don't want to sound whiney, but
>Rhea Dorn's words above highlight something i feel strongly about:
>Insurance companies (in all their incarnations) should not be a profit
>motive venture.
>
>I'm only 28, and i am essentially locked into my insurance company with my
>current policy; my "pre-existing condition" results in me being treated
>like a Leper by insurance companies.
>
>Wish i had a solution!
>
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>"Peace from the Clouds"                              \--*MH*--/
>
>Jeffrey Romanyshyn                                Email: mythhawk@xxxxxxxx
>"Myth Hawk"
>
>28/Diagnosed 3yrs/Sinemet CR 2x/Sinemet 10/100 as morning booster/Eldepyrl
>5mg 1x/Homeopathy Treatment
>
>Myth tells us where we come from, who we are, and where we are going.
>
>If you wish, please check out some of my poetry (written under the
>psuedonym ROM CARPATHIAN) and other fine literary creations at the M. David
>Lewis Enterprises HomePage at: 
>
I do not know were you are from but in CANADA  we have the Insurance BUREAU
of Canada
Or the insurance regulatory boardtry that  in the city or country that your from


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