A "Tribute" To Government-Run Healthcare [Director's Cut]

The Brain of Alan Levy | Reprint | Alan Levy

[Absolutely Nobama]

Here's government-run healthcare in all its "glory":

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"CROW AGENCY, Mont. - Ta'Shon Rain Little Light, a happy little girl who loved to dance and dress up in traditional American Indian clothes, had stopped eating and walking. She complained constantly to her mother that her stomach hurt.

When Stephanie Little Light took her daughter to the Indian Health Service clinic in this wind-swept and remote corner of Montana, they told her the 5-year-old was depressed.

Ta'Shon's pain rapidly worsened and she visited the clinic about 10 more times over several months, before her lung collapsed and she was airlifted to a children's hospital in Denver. There she was diagnosed with terminal cancer, confirming the suspicions of family members.

A few weeks later, a charity sent the whole family to Disney World so Ta'Shon could see Cinderella's Castle. She never got to see the castle, though. She died in her hotel bed soon after the family arrived in Florida."

http://www.gazette.com/articles/health-56520-indian-care.html#ixzz1q5m7e0w3

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You'll never guess who runs Indian Health Services. C'mon, take a guess. I'll give you a hint: It's really, really big. It robs you every payday. It robs you every April 15th. It builds bridges to nowhere and fish ladders. Yep, that's right, our Overlord, the federal government, runs Indian Health Services.

Ta'Shon's story isn't unique. In fact:

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"On some reservations, the oft-quoted refrain is, 'don't get sick after June,' when the federal dollars run out. It's a sick joke, and a sad one because it is sometimes true. Officials say they have about half of what they need to operate, and patients know they must be dying or about to lose a limb to get serious care.

Wealthier tribes can supplement the federal health service budget with their own dollars. But poorer tribes, often those on the most remote reservations, far away from city hospitals, are stuck with grossly substandard care. The agency itself describes a 'rationed health care system.'

The sad fact is an old fact. The U.S. has an obligation, based on a 1787 agreement between tribes and the government, to provide American Indians with free health care on reservations. But that promise has not been kept. About one-third more is spent per capita on health care for felons in federal prison, according to 2005 data from the health service."

http://www.gazette.com/articles/health-56520-indian-care.html#ixzz1q5twPS6z

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Then, there's the Veterans Administration that takes care of the brave men and women who have sacrificed life and limb to keep us free:

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"The VA sent letters to more than 3,000 veterans who had colonoscopies at the Miami VA hospital informing them that improperly cleaned equipment might have exposed them to hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV. Similar problems arose at VA hospitals in Tennessee and Georgia with more than 11,000 veterans potentially exposed to the unsanitary equipment.

The 74 patients should have been included when about 2,400 former Miami VA patients were notified in March 2009 to get tests for HIV, hepatitis and other infections.

At least two Miami patients have already been reported to have contracted HIV after having a colonoscopy at the Miami VA hospital."

http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Hospital-Administrators-Deserve-discipline-VA-Board.html

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Now, to be fair to the Federal Regime in DC, there have been some successful attempts at running health care programs. There are some who get the best possible care that money can buy. For example, our CONgress Critters and other useless bureaucrats are well taken care of:

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"Like other large employers, the government pays a large share of the cost of coverage. On average, the government pays 72 percent of the premiums for its workers, up to a maximum of 75 percent depending on the policy chosen. For example, the popular Blue Cross and Blue Shield standard fee-for-service family plan carries a total premium of $1,120.47 per month, of which the beneficiary pays $356.59. Washington, D.C.-based employees who prefer an HMO option might choose the Kaiser standard family plan. It carries a total premium of $629.46 per month, of which the employee pays only $157.36. [Do you pay $157.36 per month for your health insurance ? I'm willing to bet the answer is "No way in hell!".]

In addition, members of Congress also qualify for some medical benefits that ordinary federal workers do not. They (but not their families) are eligible to receive limited medical services from the Office of the Attending Physician of the U.S. Capitol, after payment of an annual fee ($491 in 2007). But services don’t include surgery, dental care or eyeglasses, and any prescriptions must be filled at the member’s expense. [Oh, the horror!]

House and Senate members (but not their families) also are eligible to receive care at military hospitals. For outpatient care, there is no charge at the Washington, D.C., area hospitals (Walter Reed Army Medical Center and National Naval Medical Center). Inpatient care is billed at rates set by the Department of Defense."

http://www.factcheck.org/2009/08/health-care-for-members-of-congress/

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You know who else gets top notch care ? The Islamo-Nazi scumbags at Club Gitmo:

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"NAVAL STATION GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, Feb. 18, 2005 – In every case, enemy combatants held here receive medical care that is 'as good as or better than anything we would offer our own soldiers, sailors, airmen or Marines,' the general in charge of the U.S. detention facility here said.

Army Brig Gen. Jay Hood, commander of Joint task Force Guantanamo, said medical personnel at the detainee hospital here have helped detainees recover from 'some very significant war wounds.' [Just like the VA hospitals that gave our veterans hepatitis and HIV, huh ?]

Active-duty U.S. Navy medical personnel care for detainees as both inpatients and outpatients from a dedicated facility at Camp Delta, the main detainee- holding facility here. Most routine medical care is administered by corpsmen who visit each cellblock every two days or whenever a detainee requests care. [Perhaps Ta'Shon would have gotten some attention if she wanted to enslave us to Shariah law.]

More serious health concerns among detainees are treated at the small, state- of-the-art medical facility dedicated to their care. A senior administrator at the facility called it 'equivalent to a community acute-care hospital.'

The facility is equipped with 19 inpatient beds (and can expand to 28), a physical-therapy area, pharmacy, radiology department, central sterilization area, and a single-bed operating room. More complex surgeries can be performed at the base naval hospital, which also is equipped with an intensive-care wing."

http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=25852

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Yep, government-run healthcare....It's to die for!

[Absolutely Nobama]

Ping!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Absolutely Nobama.

[Absolutely Nobama]

Funny thing is, this is only going to get worse.....

[SunkenCiv]

P.J. O’Rourke: “If you think health care is expensive now — just wait until it’s free.”

[Absolutely Nobama]

Yeah, it only cost us our Liberty.....

[crz]

For those who are sold on it. Will you like the rationing that will come as a result?

Lets assume you have begun to pass blood in your urine. So you now go to a Dr and he scopes and takes a biopsy at the same time.

Under your valued Obamacare, you will go to that Dr and he will scope it, BUT, he cant take a biopsy till he gets permission from the authorities to do it. Then, after about 6 months-it’ll take that long for the authorization to come down from the fed dept, they take the biopsy and find..yup, you got bladder cancer, but it has broken through the wall of the bladder since they didnt get at it soon enough, and, now it has spread all through your system. So now, they have to wait to get permission from the authorities to perform surgery to remove your bladder. After another six months, they perform the surgery, but, the cancer has spread so far so fast you now will be denied any future treatment since there is no chance of you surviving.

THAT IS THE TYPE OF MEDICAL CARE YOU WILL GET!!!!!

You think I am Effn kidding? That is what happened to J McEwen from the UK..not a particular friend of mine but that is another story. But that is exactly what happened to him and I have a couple other tales to tell you of the fantastic medical care this type of program will provide.

It creates a two layered system. The real good Medical professionals will drop out of this system and will only take people that pay cash. That leaves the huddled masses out and the elite will get quality care while the rest of the dumb asses who swallowed this crap hook line and sinker get nothing.

[crz]

Here is another one. Mr Ewen from the Glasgow are of Scotland, had prostate problems-Mr Ewen is a elderly man and such things happen.

So after a year and a half of waiting, they remove his prostate and like all such things he has a catheter put in. They send him home with the thing in. But he has it in for another 8 months since it takes that long to get permission from the authorities to have it removed.

My last visit over there was 2002. I have lots of people I know and they wanted to sit down and have a pint or two at the local pub with me. The talk turned to a fellow that had an accident and his arm, ankle and back were all damaged as a result. I asked if the Hospital had took a MRI. They never heard of an MRI. So one called several hospitals and asked if they had a MRI. He was told that nobody in the area had ever got permission nor would they get the funds from the authorities to get any such thing.

You see...this system makes you BEG to get medical care. Will you like to beg to save your loved ones life?

That my friends is what is the real story of this piece of shit they passed and are now about to force on you and me. You loose all your individual rights—to life, liberty and you know the rest.

[Absolutely Nobama]

“It creates a two layered system. The real good Medical professionals will drop out of this system and will only take people that pay cash. That leaves the huddled masses out and the elite will get quality care while the rest of the dumb asses who swallowed this crap hook line and sinker get nothing.

+1

Funny how libs and our bloated pig of a government never want to play the class warfare game when it’s about the inequalities they create, huh ?

[Absolutely Nobama]

Our Liberty was murdered by the traitors in the SCOTUS. There’s no question about it. Glenn Beck was right-—I don’t recognize my country anymore.

So long America, it’s been fun.

[Slambat]

“You see...this system makes you BEG to get medical care. Will you like to beg to save your loved ones life?”

Give up your guns? Your right to personal property
ownership? That is what this is really all about?

[Slambat]

“The real good Medical professionals will drop out of this system and will only take people that pay cash.”

Mandatory membership in some doctors union or pay a
tax/fine equivalent to a years union dues paid directly
to the union coffers. It will be more like back alley
practitioners. The “elite” will have their own private
practitioners. The doctors for cash will still have to
deal with the tort lawyers which will put them right back
in the system.

[Absolutely Nobama]

In other words, we’ve become East Germany in 1954.

Words cannot describe how angry I am. (Well, they could and I would get the ZOT! .)

[TheOldLady]

Alan, thank you for putting some unfortunate human faces on the truth behind government health-insurance coverage (we won’t get care, just “coverage” that does not truly “cover”).

The stark reality will hit the occupotty crowd as well as decent conservatives who have been fighting against this abomination since Nazi Pelousy had a flaming public orgasm over its passage.

As they die of various diseases, the useful idiots will probably still think zer0 was their savior, but “the Republicans messed everything up.”

Thank you for the pings, Alan and Mr. Civilizations.

[Absolutely Nobama]

No problem.

When the dust settles, I’d really like to see CONgress get off their ample duffs and look into what has happened with the Indian Health Service. It’s sickening beyond words how we can help dumps like Pakistan and Iraq that hate us and not live up to a treaty that’s as almost as old as the Republic.

[TheOldLady]

Native Americans are neither black nor mozlim enough to get special treatment from the Racist in Chief.

[Absolutely Nobama]

Sad, but true.

It’s not even special treatment, it’s what we’re supposed to be doing, but what the heck ? It’s all about that Hope and Che nonsense now. Treaties ? Who cares ? It’s like what Cyber Liberty noted accurately, we only honor treaties with those who have the power to enforce them.

Glenn Beck was right. I don’t recognize my country anymore.

[SunkenCiv]

“the occupotty crowd” — LOLOL!

[TheOldLady]

I’ve been calling them that since the first time they relieved themselves all over their chosen protest site without benefit of Port-A-Potties or any attempt to use a public rest room.

[SunkenCiv]

Perfect!