By the way, wonder how cancer, aids, blindness, epilepsy….gets ‘over-diagnosed’.
Tell me…how does that work exactly?

I bet people are just pretending they can’t see or pretending to have epileptic fits….oh and I bet lots of people ‘claim’ to have AIDS and it just find a way to fool those doctors and insurance companies….

Unbelievable!

Everything I said about my son is factual not emotional. And no, we can’t afford it. We don’t own our house; don’t take vacations, drive old cars, sold our wedding rings, golf clubs, and put off getting dental work done on my husband because we pay for our son’s care before we pay for anything else. This isn’t emotional; this is the reality of thousands of parents in our state. Oh, did I mention, we have used up and/or borrowed against our retirements? Again, this is our reality.

I find it disappointing that when our opponents can’t respond to the realities that thousands of families face every day in Oklahoma….they like to call it ‘emotional’.

Read Senator Gumm’s facts, then reread my husband’s response. These are the realities of what will happen if we don’t pass Nick’s Law.

Thanks for the comments. Just wanting to get to know you better. Continuing down the current path, I just want to know the people that will asked to pay more in income taxes to cover the state administered health care system that you are creating.

We want none of that. Autism was covered several years ago, now it is not. We do not want government run health care, but you seem not to care if we get there fast.

We are asking for our state government to address a wrong and a fraud that is being placed onto the taxpayers of OK and also the most vulmerable members of society, the children of special needs.

You might be interested in the 6 class action suits across the country that have been filed in several states to address this issue.

The district courts have already ruled against an insurance company in Colorado. It has been upheld by appeals courts as well.

Seveal states are going about this problem by accepting that it is in the best interests of the taxpayers to address this problem with private insurance rather than raising taxes dramatically. 6 states in the last 2 years including Texas, Arizona, Louisiana, Florida, and South Carolina. All with republican legislatures and most of them with republican governors. Oops.

Only a socialist uses constitutional, God-given rights as an excuse for redistributionist scams like Nick’s Law. I’m sure George Sore-ass would love your logic.

Mrs. Rohde,

I’m not without sympathy for the plight of your son or your family. I simply refuse to sacrifice my belief in the Constitution. Sounds like your family has the wherewithall to deal with this responsibility/gift God has given you. Others should be so fortunate. My arguments are based on logic, yours on emotion. Government is supposed to be logical, charity emotional. When we start muddying the water, we get garbage like this.

So I guess if I needed a wheelchair or if my son needed breathing treatments (as long as the diagnosis wasn’t associated with autism), Aetna would pay for these. THERE ARE NO PRIVATE PAY INSURANCE COMPANIES IN OKLAHOMA THAT COVER AUTISM…..but you knew that, didn’t you?

But let’s get down to what you are really trying to accomplish. You are trying to convince those who read this blog that Senator Gumm’s logic is flawed. This is impossible. You can throw out all of the du jour comments you like, but in reality you and whoever else is using your pseudo name are insurance lobbyists without the courage to use your real name(s).

As a parent who lives with autism day in and day out, who has tried every imaginable way to obtain services to help with the $5000/month bill we must pay for our son so that he doesn’t grow up and live off the taxpayers, I say this: People like Senator Gumm looks at a problem and says, “Is this the best way to do this?”, Cowards, on the other hand, say “It can’t be done”.

You Butchey are a coward. Oh, and yes I do like to call it like it is….I’ve never been accused of being as tactful as my husband.

By the way, do you know the difference between a pit bull and the mother of a child with autism? NOTHING!

Robyne Rohde, Mommy to Austin and Nicholas (Nick’s Law)

True conservatism should not be “I got mine, now you get yours any way you can. And, oh, by the way, if you encounter any difficulties along the way – tough, you should have planned better.” Hogwash. We are better than that, or at least I hope we are.

And Butchy, I cannot wait to see a receipt for your contribution to Easter Seals new autism pre-school. Talk, as they say, is cheap about conservative principles. Let’s see the cancelled check.