My family just went around with a health condition and learned some things on doctors, diagnosis and treatment.  This bring up big concerns on how it would have ended up under a national healthcare system.

My son had a bout with asthma about eighteen months ago. During the treatment of this, Doctor decided to take a CT scan of his lungs to verify no other problems. From this, there showed a spot on the liver. They decided to take an MRI of his liver and see what that was all about. Afterwards, there was no apparent diagnosis of what the spot was, but 95% chance of it being a cluster of blood cells. And that we should monitor it every four to six months to make sure it was not growing and everything was okay with it.

After monitoring it two times, the spot had grown, which caused a big concern. Now to let you know a little bit about the background of these doctors, they are considered specialists, but they are in a small hospital. The internal medicine expert had never seen this before, and his comment was " I know it is not cancer because he is not dead/" What??? This is the only way you can diagnose something? Also, the local radiologists reading the MRI had never seen this before.

So with having a friend who is currently dying from fibrolamellar carcinoma type liver cancer, and she recommended that we leave these quacks behind and go to Mayo Clinic, which is less than a two hours drive away.

With that we set up an appointment with the liver cancer specialist at Mayo clinic and went to see him about it. After discussions with the residence working under him, there was still a big concern and he asked that the expert doctor to come in and look at this. On this, the expert doctor entered and looked over the scans and was able to diagnose what he believed was going on. That the spot was FNH which is basically a non malignant tumor that is very common in livers. The grown is common, early on, but should settle down. The tumor cloud shaped with ragged edges around with which is typical. Also, the growth was not visable without contrast. A cancer would be visable without contrast. Also, the growth was only visable in one plane of image and not the other. So this all was proof that the growth was normal tissue and nothing to worry about.

We to sum this up, under the national health care being proposed, i may not have been able to take my son to Mayo Clinic and get the second opinion. This is sorry scarry for me. That we might have to rely on the local quacks and not be able to call upon the true experts. This would be such a drop in medical care quality.

I think Obama is rushing these things through too fast, and needs to quit using the poor economy as an excuse for him to push through fast legislature. This is totally wrong.