HIV/AIDS & Health Care Reform, What Do We Really Know?

This Post Discusses Adult Situations And Describes Sexual Activities That Some May Find Offensive. Material Contained Herein Is For Educational Purposes

In the days of health care reform one thing is abundantly clear. No matter what the public says Washington will reform the system in some manner or fashion. Supposedly this reform is for the approximately 38 to 45 million uninsured individuals in the United States legally. This reform will, in some form or fashion, make employers responsible for the health care of their employees imposing penalties for failure to acquire health plans. This in and of itself could put some companies out of business depending upon the requirements. While it is not yet all hashed out there is also additional pressure for what has been called the "Public Option". This option is said to be a way for individuals to secure coverage at supposedly lower and more competitive prices group rate prices as opposed to individual plan prices. I have placed the most up to date information on the current congressional wrangling at Dunamis Insurance & Business Services web site, and will update that regularly to clarify exactly what's going on regarding this issue.

However, as noted in "Hate Crimes Legislation, Presidential Approval Of The Gay Agenda" in light of our President's agenda to normalize homosexuality, even calling homosexual relationships:

"just as real and admirable as relationships between a man and a woman."

We should ask and look critically at the real motivation behind such an expansive move, and we should better define what is really occurring and why there is such a push to insure the "uninsured". Most of those infected with HIV/AIDS in care rely on public sector insurance programs or are uninsured, estimated to range between approximately 70% and 83%  [Fleishman, J., Personal communication, Analysis of HCSUS Data, January 2002 also see: Nakashima AK. “Who Will Pay for HIV Treatment? Health Insurance Status of HIV-Infected Persons.” In: Proceedings of the 1997 Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America; September 13-16, 1997; San Francisco, CA. Abstract 293.]

3 Facts To Keep In Mind Before We Embark Upon This Subject:

1- America's citizens should have access to excellent health care and there is enough money within the system to provide such for all of it's citizens. That doesn't necessarily mean that health care should be controlled or distributed by the government. Those things are a separate issue from this writing.

2- No individual should be denied adequate health care because of any factor including sexual orientation. To suggest so is a ridiculous notion. This article makes no such suggestion.

3- There is NO ENDORSEMENT of any immoral sexual activity within this article. God's way of marriage and one man and one woman still is the best prescription for sexual activity, health, growth of the family and health of the community and society in general.

The Case & History of AIDS:

In examining the accuracy of the classification of cases by the CDC, it must be recognized that, except in perinatal cases, it is virtually impossible to know with absolute certainty how a particular individual became infected with HIV. Originally, pre 1981, AIDS was referred to as "GRIDS" ("gay related immunodeficiency syndrome"), because it appeared to be a disease which affected only homosexual men. Later, it became clear by statistical analysis that it primarily affected homosexual men and IV drug users, but that HIV could also be transmitted by penile-vaginal intercourse and blood transfusions, and from an infected mother to her child. All of these transmission methods are consistent with the fact that AIDS is a blood disease. However, even though the high risk categories are known, there is no way of knowing for certain whether a particular person became infected in a particular manner, because the precise details of one's life cannot be known with absolute certainty by others.

Research provides abundantly clear information  that AIDS is a devastating disease. The research also shows that HIV/AIDS is a disease that is rampantly and readily spread throught the  homosexual community. Currently there are 1.1 Million individuals known to be infected either with AIDS or the disease thought to cause AIDS, HIV.
 The research also affirms that although there are many advertisements such as BET's "Wrap It Up" campaign and condom distribution at high schools and now even grade schools throughout the country, geared toward heterosexual individuals, yet HIV/AIDS is still primarily a homosexual disease, more readily and easily transmitted through homosexual. Despite all of the efforts to make the disease a disease for all sexually active individuals, HIV/AIDS remains tied to the immoral sexual and anti-biblical sexual activities of homosexuality and the homosexual community.

Don't believe me? Good, because I didn't do the research. However the research and medical professional dis and here's what they found. In  An Actuarial Analysis on the subject:

Distribution of AIDS Cases In The United States

As of the end of 1992 (publication of the 1993 report having been delayed by the CDC), the cumulative distribution of adult cases since 1981 by exposure category was as follows:

Male homosexual/bisexual contact 142,626 (57%)

IV drug use (female and heterosexual male) 57,412 (23%)

Male homosexual/bisexual contact and IV drug use 15,899 ( 6%)

Hemophilia/coagulation disorder 2,026 ( 1%)

Heterosexual contact with a person with, or at increased risk for, HIV infection 13,292 (5%)

Born in Pattern II country 2,962 ( 1%)

Receipt of blood transfusion, blood components or tissue 4,980 ( 2%)

Other/undetermined 10,002 ( 4%)

Total 249,199 (100%)

According to 2007 CDC figures, the current status of HIV/AIDS in the US is as follows:

In 2007 There were 42,655 new cases of HIV/AIDS in adults, adolescents, and children were diagnosed in the 33 states with long-term, confidential name-based HIV reporting, which was down from the 2006 estimate of 56,300 new HIV/AIDS infections.

Approximately 74% or 42,495 diagnosis were men the remaining 26% were women.

Men having sex with men (MSM) category accounted for 71% out of the total male infections and 53% of overall total new infections in 2007.

Heterosexual sex with high risk individuals (individuals known to have HIV or AIDS)  accounted for 11% of all new infections.

Among women, 83% of all new HIV/AIDS diagnosis were from women who engaged in high risk heterosexual contact. ie: Had sex with men who were thought to already have HIV/AIDS.

Blacks/African Americans accounted for over half (51%) of the estimated number of HIV/AIDS diagnoses made during 2007, followed by whites (29%) and Hispanic/Latinos (18%).

To date there have been approximately 562,793 death from AIDS in the US.

Currently there are approximately 455,636 persons in the US living with AIDS (excluding HIV)

It is estimated that 1 in 5 (20%) of all kids infected with HIV/AIDS are unaware of it.

This statistical data compiled by the same government who wants universal health care knows that HIV/AIDS as of this 1992 report, delayed, says that almost 60% of HIV/AIDS transmission was from the homosexual/bisexual community.

One would say that well that data only tells part of the story. We've seen figures such as Magic Johnson who caught AIDS from heterosexual sex and therefore your argument is DOA because it can be proven that heterosexual can easily catch AIDS.

Is that so? Is my argument a moot point, or one worth examining closer? The fact is that Cookie didn't catch AIDS. So it's worth examining a little more closely. Let's see. In that same actuarial analysis, there were also statistics compiled as to the likelihood of acquiring AIDS from one of the most high risk sexual groups in the world. Prostitutes. Surprisingly this is what the study found: 

HIV and Female Prostitutes:

Prostitutes are another group which engages in sexual activity with multiple partners. Root-Bernstein discusses their experience as follows:

"M. Seidlin and his colleagues examined the prevalence of HIV infections in New York City call girls during 1987, They studied seventy-eight women who had been prostitutes for an average of five years each. Each woman had had an average of over 200 clients during the past year, or approximately 1,000 lifetime partners. Use of condoms was sporadic at best. Vaginal intercourse was common; anal, rare. Since it is estimated that nearly 5% of men in New York City are thought to be intravenous drug users and half of these are HIV seropositive, it is probable that each of these prostitutes had sexual relations with an average of twenty-five HIV-seropositive individuals. Despite this unusual promiscuity and despite living in one of the AIDS capitals of the world, only one of the women was HIV seropositive. She admitted being an intravenous drug abuser. Her seventy-two non-drug abusing co-workers were all HIV negative."

You mean to tell me, putting a gun up to one's head and playing Russian roulette by having unprotected sex with women who have sex with men for money as an occupation amounted to ONE HIV positive case in this study in the AIDS capital of the world??? If this disease was truly a heterosexual disease would not the cases of infection and the infection rate be much more expansive? Let's read further:

"Another study carried out in New York City by Dr. Joyce Wallace and her co-workers between 1982 and 1988 found similar results. They surveyed several hundred streetwalkers (a lower class of prostitute than call girls) for a variety of measures of immunodeficiency. Excluding admitted intravenous drug users from their study, they found that only 4.5 percent of the prostitutes were HIV infected. The only statistical difference between those who were infected and those who were not was that the HIV-positive women had had a mean of 3,062 sexual partners during their lifetime, whereas the HIV-seronegatives had had 1,047. On the other hand, Wallace found an HIV seropositivity rate approaching 50% among drug-abusing prostitutes."

"Similarly, a 1988 study concluded that "HIV infection in non-drug using prostitutes tends to be low or absent, implying that sexual activity alone does not place them at high risk, while prostitutes who use intravenous drugs are far more likely to be infected with HIV".

The Difficulty Of The Transmission Of HIV By Heterosexual Contact

This is one of the most misunderstood parts of a presentation of this sort. First there is no endorsement to run out and have heterosexual sex outside of marriage. Secondly, there is no endorsement to not worry about catching the disease if one is not committed to the will and plan of God. I am convinced that many heterosexuals are receiving this disease at the hands of bisexual lovers (men and women) and even spouses on the Down Low. In many instances women are challenged by a man who likes other men and are convinced that they can "change the man" and his desires, only to find out that the man will have sex with a woman as a matter of variety, proliferating his disease, but maintaining his lust for other men also. There are men in a similar situation with bisexual women, and they are in equally as dangerous of a situation.

Most STDs have a fairly high efficiency of transmission - perhaps a 10% to as high as a 50% probability of transmission during a single sexual act with an infected partner. As a result, the typical route for such diseases is from male-to-female-to-male-to-female..., by heterosexual intercourse. Obviously, therefore, the best defenses against the spread of such diseases are said to be (1) monogamy, (2) condoms (which is not a safe method as will be discussed below), and (3) medical treatment when symptoms occur.

HIV, however, is very different in one fundamental respect. Although it has been demonstrated that the transmission of HIV by heterosexual intercourse is possible, both male-to-female and female-to-male, unlike most other sexually transmitted diseases, the transmission is extremely inefficient, particularly female-to-male.

In addition, transmission usually is associated with some type of abnormality, such as some other STD. This was dramatically illustrated in a paper titled "Female-to-Male Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus", by Padian et al, published in the September 25, 1991 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. In this paper, 72 male, non-drug using partners of HIV-positive women were studied, beginning in 1985. Of the 72 males, only a single one became infected through sexual contact. It is instructive to quote excerpts from the description of this couple's sexual practices and physical condition, to show the conditions which caused the man to become infected.

"Over the five years prior to the study, [the woman] had over 600 male partners, including over 2000 contacts with a bisexual man, an unidentified number of contacts with an intravenous drug user, and over 1000 contacts with a person she knew to be HIV-infected.

"The couple reported an average of 15 sexual contacts a month for the last 7 years. Almost all of these contacts consisted of unprotected vaginal-penile and oral intercourse. The couple practiced anal intercourse twice. The couple never used condoms. ... The woman would frequently have sexual intercourse with another partner while her husband first observed and then had intercourse with her immediately after the other partner.

 "This couple reported ... over 100 episodes of both vaginal and penile bleeding. The cause of this bleeding could not be established. Medical data were available only by history, and over the last 5 years, the woman reported four cases of vaginal yeast infections, both reported one case of trichomoniasis, and the man reported one case of urethral gonorrhea. In addition, the woman reported a history of endometriosis and had a hysterectomy during the year prior to entry into the study."

The report goes on to suggest that the man's HIV infection may have come from one of the other men who had sexual relations with his wife immediately prior to his sexual activity, rather than from his wife.

The report also states that six other of the 72 men reported penile bleeding during sexual intercourse, but did not become infected.

Now get this, the HIV was NOT from the woman, but from the man that the woman had sex with prior. Could this be the reason that HIV is on the increase in the Black Community and especially among Black heterosexual women. the lesbian is deceived into believing that they are exempt, but if they also have bisexual lovers their risk is equally as great of both catching and spreading this disease.

It is not at all surprising that this one man became infected, given his history of penile bleeding and other STD's. In fact, it illustrates that the risk of transmission of HIV infection may depend on a variety of factors relating both to the degree of infectiousness of the infected partner and to the susceptibility to infection of the uninfected partner. Of particular interest in this regard is the paper "Biologic Factors in the Sexual Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus", by Holmberg et al. This paper discusses a number of possible cofactors, and concludes with the following summary:

"The probability that any single episode of genital-genital or anogenital sexual intercourse will result in transmission of HIV may be determined by multiple biologic factors of the infectious person, the virus itself, and the exposed susceptible person. Some of these factors are known or suspected (figure 1), and they may explain observed differences in the sexual transmission of HIV in different parts of the world, notably in Africa, where genital ulcerative disease is probably influencing the epidemiology of HIV. Several studies have shown that infection in partners of HIV-infected persons is not determined solely by numbers of sexual encounters; on the contrary, HIV-infected partners have usually had fewer sexual encounters with infectious mates than have noninfected partners.,, Thus, sexually active persons should be cautioned that, to our knowledge, there are no nonsusceptible persons and that any single sexual encounter may lead to HIV transmission. Research into biologic factors that modulate HIV transmission continues to be hampered by difficulties in identifying HIV transmitters and nontransmitters, infective and noninfective variants of HIV (if the latter exist in vivo), and persons relatively more or less susceptible to HIV infection. However, as the number of partner studies and the number enrolled in them increase, a progressively clearer idea of the biologic determinants of sexual transmission should emerge."

Given the level of STDs among street walking prostitutes, and the desire by some to try to conceal their drug habit, it is not surprising that a small percentage of those who did not admit to drug use nevertheless were HIV-positive. All things considered, it is significant that the percentage was so low, and is another indication of the extreme difficulty of HIV transmission by heterosexual intercourse.

AIDS and Homosexual Men

In contrast to the low risk for heterosexuals, homosexual men incur a significant risk because of their lifestyle. Root-Bernstein details the many immunosuppressive risk factors that affect homosexual men. Many of these, such as syphilis and a variety of other infections, are associated with anal sexual practices engaged in by a significant percentage of homosexual men. However, other risk factors were related to the widespread use of various drugs by homosexuals. In this respect, Root-Bernstein quotes the following studies:

"A CDC survey conducted in 1983 found that a 'typical' gay man in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco used four street drugs regularly. Those who had developed AIDS by 1983 had a history of increased drug use both in therm of frequency of use and number of different drugs used regularly. Ninety-five percent of the gay men surveyed regularly used inhalant nitrites; over 90 percent smoked marijuana; 60 percent used cocaine; about 8 percent used heroin; over 50 percent used amphetamines; over 30 percent, barbiturates; almost 50 percent, LSD and methaqualone; and about 40 percent had used phencyclidine. Linda Pifer's 1987 survey of gay men in Memphis found slightly lower rates of drug use. Over 80 percent of this group admitted to using nitrites at least occasionally and 30 percent more than once a week. Seventy-four percent admitted to use of other illicit drugs, including marijuana, cocaine, phencyclidine, and LSD, with an average of nearly seven years of 'routine use.' Eleven percent described themselves as being 'heavy drinkers' and another 37 percent as 'moderate drinkers.' Multiple drug use was the norm among the heavy abusers."

 The increased risk of HIV infection for those homosexuals (and heterosexuals) who engage in anal sex is described by Root-Bernstein as follows:

"Immunological contact with sperm, or material carried in sperm, is increased in anal, as contrasted with vaginal or oral, intercourse. On reason has to do with the physiological differences of the rectum, vagina, and upper gastrointestinal tract. Vaginal tissue differs markedly from rectal tissue. The vagina has thick, muscular walls covered by a deep layer of epithelial (skin-like) cells that are easily sloughed off and secrete a lubricating mucus to decrease the possibility of abrasion. Even if abrasion does occur, the capillaries that embedded in the vaginal tissue are far from the surface and difficult to reach. There are also very few lymphocytes directly in the vagina, most of them being located higher up, near the cervix. The rectal tissue presents an entirely different picture. The rectum is comprised of an extremely thin layer of tissue, densely entwined with capillaries. It lacks the thick layers of epithelium that protect the vagina and its ability to produce a protective mucus. Moreover, the intestines are studded with Peyer's patches. Located along with the Peyer's patches are concentrations of M cells, which apparently function as portals through which the resident lymphocytes constantly sample the contents of the rectum for foreign material. These M cells have been shown to permit viruses such as HIV to gain access to the immune system from the rectum. Thus, unlike the vagina, the rectum represents a place in the body through which the immune system can easily be reached, even under normal conditions. Since microscopic tears and bleeding can accompany anal intercourse and infections but are rare in vaginal intercourse, anal exposure confers another means for semen components (and viruses) to enter the bloodstream, there to be immunologically processed."

Root-Bernstein then goes on to list a number of diseases that may develop in the rectum as a result of the various anal sexual practices engaged in by homosexual men. It is no wonder that, even apart from AIDS, homosexual men who engage in anal sexual activity have a higher incidence of immunosuppressive disease than heterosexuals.

More recently, Scottish researchers found transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among heterosexuals slower than among homosexual men.  A study, published in PLoS Pathogens, also found transmission clusters in the heterosexual population occurred in networks of more than 10 people and as many as 30 people, but were smaller than those found among HIV-infected homosexual men.

 Mental Health Issues:

The study was conducted by UCLA scientists and involved data from a survey of more than 2,000 Californians in 2008.

The researchers found 48.5 percent of gay lesbian or bisexual individuals said they participated in treatment during the past year, compared with 22.5 percent of heterosexuals. Lesbians and bisexual women were most likely to receive treatment and heterosexual men were the least likely. The report stated:

"It is well known that health services utilization is greater among women generally," researcher Susan Cochran said. "Here we have shown that minority sexual orientation is also an important consideration. Lesbians and bisexual women appear to be approximately twice as likely as heterosexual women to report having received recent treatment for mental health or substance use disorders."

The Condom/Safe Sex Myth:

It's commonly thought and taught that condoms will make one "safe" during sex or sexual activity. The facts are asotounding that this is equally as great of a lie as any. According to The Medical Institute.org:

"The Bottom Line Condoms don't make sex safe, just less risky. Although condoms can reduce your risk for some STIs, they don't eliminate it. You can still get an STI (Sexually Transmitted Infection) or get pregnant...To completely reduce your risk for some STIs, you should avoid sexual activity (oral, vaginal or anal sex) until you are faithful to one partner. If you've already had sex, see a doctor about getting checked for STIs...Waiting to have sex until you are in a faithful, lifelong relationship (such as marriage) is the only certain way to avoid being infected sexually."

Life Expectancy:

 According to the US Library Of Medicine National Institute Of Health:

Previous estimates from obituaries and pre-1994 sex surveys suggested that the median age of death for homosexuals is less than 50 yr. Four contemporary databases were used to test that estimate: (1) obituaries in the homosexual press from 1993 through 1997 reflected treatment success for those with AIDS but suggested a median age of death less than 50 years; (2) two large random sexuality surveys in 1994--one in the USA and the other in Britain--yielded results consistent with a median age of death for homosexuals of less than 50 years; (3) the median age of those ever married in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway was about 50 years, while that of the ever homosexually partnered was about 40 yr; further, the married were about 5 times more apt to be old and 4 times less apt to be widowed young; and (4) intravenous drug abusers and homosexuals taking HIV tests in Colorado had almost identical age distributions. The four lines of evidence were consistent with previous findings suggesting that homosexual activity may be associated with a lifespan shortened by 20 to 30 years. ~ PMID: 9923159 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Anal Sex Misconceptions

With the advent of hip-hop and porno's "Booty Worship"  and "Booty Fixation" there also comes a more widely proliferated experimental sex type that is having its devastating effects on our community. This is called anal sex. The problem is that anal sex is is much more risky than any other form of sex and is not just for homosexuals, as was once thought.  According to the Bradley Hasbro Children’s Research Center in Rhode Island, anal sex is on the rise among teens and young adults, particularly those who have unprotected vaginal sex. Experts say girls and young women are often persuaded to “experiment” with their bodies for all the wrong reasons: To please a partner. But at what cost?

Since there’s a higher likelihood for contact with blood and other bodily fluids during anal sex, experts say it puts you at a higher risk for STDs. According to the Kaiser Foundation, more than one-third of new HIV infections in the United States occur among people between the ages of 13 and 29 and can be attributed to the mind-set among youth that they are not at risk of contracting the virus. In an ABC news.com interview Eliz. Schroeder co- author of "Sexuality Education: Past , Present & Future" said:  “They don’t think you can get a disease from it (anal sex) because you’re not having intercourse. They can actually recite by rote how you get AIDS, but it doesn’t transfer to their personal behavior.”

Medical Costs Associated With HIV/AIDS

Although this is one of the most obfuscated areas of information for obvious reasons, it is estimated that for every HIV infection that is prevented, an estimated $355,000 is saved in the cost of providing lifetime HIV treatment. See: Schackman BR, Gebo KA, Walensky RP, et al. The lifetime cost of current human immunodeficiency virus care in the United States. Med Care 2006 Nov;44(11):990-97.

There is a differnt cost for various treatments and regimens and varying costs appropriate to teh stage of the disease. I have attempted to provide a Rough estimate of medical costs in one age group based on Life expectancy for that group. I have also used conservative figures in todays dollars rather than inflationary dollars. This is the data:

20-29 age group represent approximately 25% (10,624) of all new HIV infections.

Annual estimated medical costs for this age group $8,452 per year per individual.~This figure is dependent upon the regimen and payer (newer formulations of more than one antiretroviral drug may be priced as high as their component parts)[This is based on average wholesale price (AWP). The price Medicaid pays for prescription drugs includes a rebate off the average manufacturers price (AMP), which itself is less than the AWP. The rebate received is defined as the greater of 15.1% of AMP or AMP minus the Best Price (BP) for brand name drugs. The rebate for generic drugs is 11% of AMP.] This represents an average estimate across all payers and all HIV disease stages, based on several studies. {Personal communication, James G. Kahn, January 2003. When additional medical expenses for doctor’s visits, laboratory tests, and drugs to prevent or treat HIV-related opportunistic infections are taken into account, average annual costs rise to approximately $18,000 to $20,000 per patient, with even higher expenses for those with more advanced HIV-related illness.}

Annual estimated cost per all individuals within this category $89,794,048

Providing healthcare to all individuals in this demographic group until life expectancy (excluding premature deaths or other occurrances) $3,771, 350, 016.

Rx Costs:

National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation, for example, found that national retail drug expenditures for antiretrovirals totaled $2,572.4 million in 2001, representing an almost 21 percent increase over 2000, compared to a 17% increase for all retail prescription drug sales over the same period

Once again for obvious reasons, there is much obfuscation of truth in this area and my estimates are admittedly rough, but give a good idea of the costs associated with HIV/AIDS. Ultimately most of those costs are produced and will be generated by the homosexual community. This is not to question the humaneness fo the treatment. All sick individuals need and should have a right to healthcare, but it does bring into clarity the push for a nationalized healthcare against the backdrop of calling homosexuality admirable.

What Could Be The Results For Not Providing Adequate Universal Type Healthcare For Homosexuals?

Canada found that out when they were sued. Canadian Homosexual Complaint PDF Against The Gov't. The Canadian Government found out that the gay community stated the following as being the reason why they needed healthcare:

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  The life expectancy for gay and bisexual men is 20 years less than the average Canadian man;
  
  
  
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  GLB people commit suicide at rates ranging from twice as often to almost 14 times more than the general population;
  
  
  
• GLBs have smoking rates ranging from 1.3 to three times higher than average;
• GLBs become alcoholics at a rate 1.4 to seven times higher than the general population;
• GLBs use illicit drugs at a rate from 1.6 to 19 times higher than other Canadians;
• GLBs experience depression at rates ranging from 1.8 to three times higher than average;
• Homosexual men comprise 76% of AIDS cases and 45% of all new HIV infections;
• GLB populations are at a higher risk of lung and liver cancer;
• Homosexual and bisexual men suffer a higher rate of anal cancer than heterosexual men;
• Lesbians report a higher rate of breast cancer;
• GLBs experience verbal and physical abuse at a greater rate than most Canadians.

Boy on so many points that sounds exactly like what I've laid out here doesn't it. Could this be a major source of the push to nationalize healthcare. Not to minimize individuals suffering because of inadequate access to healthcare, but does the homosexual agenda dn lobby have more to do with this than meets the eye? I wonder if we are next?

Conclusion:

Is the treatment of HIV/AIDS the most expensive medical care and treatment? NO, hemodialysis costs an estimated $150,000 annually per quality adjusted year life. {Freedberg, et al., “The Cost Effectiveness of Combination Antiretroviral Therapy For HIV Disease,” New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 344, No. 11, March 2001.}

Anyone thinking that the point of this article was to say that HIV/AIDS treatment costs so much that it shouldn't be covered missed the complete purpose of the article.

The article uncovers the hidden agenda behind the posture of the homosexual agenda, gay rights, and the insistence on this governement to normalize homosexuality and exalt it to an equal status of heterosexual relationships. This article exposes an element behind healthcare reform that is not discussed by many if any but that cannot be denied.

This is yet another reason often unspoken that the gay rights agenda has sought to plant itself so deeply into the thread of American life.  Rather than simply treat the result of gay sex, which can be proven to be harmful to siociety in general, I'd rather spend my time pleading with homosexuals to leave the lifestyle, because it is not only spiritually and morally devastating, but it is also physically and mentally devastating.

Based on the numbers, homosexuality is anything but admirable. The results of Homosexuality according to the numbers which I did not compile is not a wise decision for individuals, monetarily, socially, mentally, physically or otherwise.

We should ask our President is this the aim of health care reform? To socially normalize and encourage the immorality and devastating effects of homosexuality? how could anyone who cares about humanity, knowing the facts, endorse a homosexual lifestyle. The statistics say that the lifestyle is froth with problems none of which were invented by me or on this site. Is our Preseident promoting what is simply politically expedient, or something that is actually good for all of America? We may ask, I wonder if we will receive and answer?

Blessed!

Proverbs 16:25 ~ "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof [are] the WAYS OF DEATH."

References:

Stats Everyone Should Know

US Library Of  Medicine National Institute Of Health

UPI.com Gays & Lesbians Seek Healthcare

The Dakota Voice

American Psychiatric Association Coverup

Sexuality Education: Past Present & Future
Eliz. Schroeder & Judy Kuriansky Prager Publishers 2009

UPI.com HIV Heterosexual Transmission Slower

EDINBURGH, England, Sept. 28, 2009

HIV Prevention in the US at a Critical Crossroad CDC

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/reports/hiv_prev_us.htm

Current News:

Life Site News
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/aug/09081407.html

Education Czar Homosexual affirming religious hater

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/23/critics-assail-obamas-safe-schools-czar-say-hes-wrong-man-job/

CA Supreme Ct. Forces Doctors to lay down their religious beliefs

http://jasonaclark.com/2008/08/19/california-supreme-court-says-homosexual-rights-trump-christian-rights/

Concerning Medical Costs See:

1- Bartlett, J., Medical Management of HIV Infection, 2001-2002 Edition, 2001.

2- Kahn, J., Haile, B., Kates, J., Chang, S., “Health and Federal Budgetary Effects of Increasing Access to Antiretroviral Medications for HIV by Expanding Medicaid,” American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 91, No. 9, September 2001.

3- Freedberg, et al., “The Cost Effectiveness of Combination Antiretroviral Therapy For HIV Disease,” New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 344, No. 11, March 2001.

4- Bozzette, S., et al., “The Care of HIV Infected Adults in the United States,” New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 339. No. 26, December 1998.

5- Bozzette, S., et al., “Expenditures for the Care of HIV-Infected Patients in the Era of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy,” New England Journal of Medicine, Vo. 334, No. 11, March 2001.

6- University of Alabama (UAB), Press Release: UAB Announces Results of First HIV Patient Care Cost Analysis, July 2002.

In the UAB study, the average annual cost of patient care ranged from $14,000 for those at early stage HIV infection to $34,000 for those with advanced-stage disease.

7- National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation, Prescription Drug Expenditures in 2001: Another Year of Escalating Costs, Revised May 2002.