“Free” Socialist healthcare is good as long as you don’t get sick or injured. If you do, you’re toast.
Makes you want to scream.
Or strangle someone.
We are going to have the same problems once they get their list of approved treatments for you. Thanks, Democrats.
And .. this type of idiocy is what the Stimulus has just bought us.
And .. according to the stimulus - the main target will be the elderly .. because if you’re past a certain age .. and you’re just going to die anyway .. we can’t waste the govt’s money on helping you.
Doesn’t that sound just lovely ..?? Scary is the word.
What’s the big deal? Just another life that the Agents of the State decided wasn’t worth living. We must yield to their wisdom if we are to have the means to provide a uniform mediocre existence to those the State does deem worthy of life. (As well as a champagne and caviar existence to the all important Elite of the State, without whom we wouldn’t know how to live properly.)
I finally was convinced to go to the hospital a few years ago when I was suffering the worst pain I could ever imagine, and I am an expert on pain. After being checked in ER, including x-rays, the doctor began telling me about how he was going to release me. As if by an act of God, I threw up half way through his sentence. At that point, I was given a CAT scan and admitted to ICU with a subarachnoid haemorrhage. I had no idea I was bleeding and I definitely didn’t know 40% don’t live.
If THEY provide your health care, THEY get to decide what they choose to give you. Or NOT give you.
THEY call the shots because it's THEIR health care.
worse than terrible
Oh, and as a FYI: The organization that determines what the standards will be for the rationing of health-care in the UK is called the National Institute for Clinical Excellence. Yes, the people who decided that granny must die to save money for the health-care of people who are worth saving are NICE people. Its positively Orwellian.
I am not saying I want the same health care they have in the UK, but it is also pretty easy to find these cases here in the US. Doctors make mistakes. There are also doctors that are just lazy or not paying attention. Sometimes people are made to suffer needlessly, and sometimes they will die from the mistakes. There is no healthcare system in the world that can prevent doctors, nurses and other medical personnel from making mistakes.
A guy in my station had surgery on a broken ankle last fall. He was in the hospital recovering from other injuries as well. His wife kept asking what the smell was, and the nurses kept saying she was imagining things. 3 days later when he finally saw the doctor who did the surgery, the bandages came off and the ankle was horribly infected. He had his left ankle amputated and is now learning how to use his new prosthesis.
The service I received at the Emergency was quick, complete and professional.
American Health care may have it's flaws but I have found it to be topnotch.
In many other countries they get lousy and dangerous care....unless they grease palms. One of the things that sets this nation apart from so many others is that we don’t have the corruption of bribery. It goes hand-in-hand with nationalized healthcare.
In my freshman year of college, my right hand was going numb and was twitching. A week later, I decided to call a neurologist. The same day I had an appointment, I had an EMG, and I got an MRI. I think my parents paid a total of $100. The diagnosis... Carpel-Tunnel Syndrome.
That was my hand.
A Canadian friend of mine who was on a student visa had horrific kidney stones. The wait time in Winnipeg was six weeks. His parents paid $5000 out-of-pocket four weeks later to have them blasted out in North Dakota.
Damn, that’s all I can think of when I hear horror stories like this.
At least we will be able to rest easy knowing that our caring leaders will not subject themselves to such flimsy medical care. They will most assuredly ensure that they get premium CongressCare.
Socialists always claim to be doing something for you, while they are actually doing something to you.
This type of Government Health Care coming our way per the Obama/Polosi 2009 Stimulas Bill.
Obama and his evil democrat party tossed this into the "Stimulus" package: Medical rationing and penalizing doctors who order tests.
Is their NHS immune to lawsuits? Good grief, are they making the case for tort lawyers? Holy carp.
An honest mistake. Someone must have transposed the patient’s age, and reported her to be 61 instead of 16.
/sarcasm
You know, I agree with you in theory, but we’re facing something similar (though not as dire as this story) and great insurance and a dozen experts aren’t helping us.
For three years my 17 year old daughter’s been suffering terrible migraines. Her joints are swelling off and on and she’s having chest pain and heart palpitations. But the doctors just aren’t listening. Over and over doctors tell us that there’s nothing wrong with her, but her fingers and knees get HUGE, red, stiff and hot off and on and I know that this is NOT in her head. We get an abnormal blood test (elevated sed rate or elevated C-reactive protein) and the doctor says that it’s not abnormal enough. One pupil blows (fixed and dilated) and the eye socket swells to the point where the eyeball is bulging and we’re told that it didn’t happen. (Even though an ER doc, our family doc and the school nurse all witnessed it - it didn’t happen. It’s impossible because something like that would never resolve on it’s own.)
One afternoon (about a year ago) she was laying in my bed with yet another headache. I told her to get ready to go. (We were going to an exotic animal farm to pick out a puppy.) She couldn’t get out of bed.
*That* is when it hit me just how much she was suffering.
And she gets that bad almost every afternoon. The only thing that keeps her going is rage. Rage at the entire medical community. Rage at her own body. Rage at her weakness.
The medical system is *broken*. The doctors are burned out. I *know* we’re not the only people in this boat.
Socialized medicine will only make it worse, but we have to admit that it’s awful now. Situations like ours make the general public desperate for a solution and when people get desperate, they have knee-jerk reactions and do stupid things.
I think you can find these stories in the U.S. as well. Misdiagnosis is big in medicine.