Posted on 05/17/2014 7:24:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
My husband was hurt playing football in the navy. He had to have knee surgery. They opened up the wrong knee.
A friend of mine was 8 months pregnant and went to Ehrling Bergquist AF hospital with severe pain. They checked her and said it was false labor. She came back with vomiting also this time, then and they sent her home again. Her appendix burst days before. She survived, but the she was never the same. She has memory loss and talks slowly. She lost her baby.
I don't mean to pick on our military doctors/hospitals. I'm sure there are many good doctors and hospitals, but outside fighting wars and keeping us safe, it's the big government.
When I had my son at Tripler Army Hospital. Throughout my pregnancy I never seen the same doctor twice. On the day I had my son I was given a set of sheets and told where the dust mop was. I was lucky because I shared a room with one other women (who did not take care of her baby when he cried). Apparently most others shared a room with 5 other women.
If people knew what they are in for with government health care, there would be millions walking to DC demanding repeal of obamacare.
“The problem with VA hospitals is that they are government run health care facilities and like all government bureaucracies they care only about drawing a paycheck and nothing about customer service.”
You mean like the Post Office and the Dept. of Motor Vehicles, only they can kill you instead of just being rude.
Actually there are 3 branches to the VA VHA, VBA, and NCA. NCA runs the cemeteries. There are no waiting lines there.
I work for the VA, and at one time worked at a CBOC. Our appointment times were monitored, reports were run, and we got our butts kicked if appointments were not made on time. Of course, our VISN has a lot of CBOC’s so we can handle the patient load better then most.
No problem.
No problem.
Too bad Congress - and veterans themselves - pilloried Ronald Reagan for proposing “privatization” of the VA. Chickens come home to roost.
“Those who ignore history are damned to repeat its errors”Jorge Santayana.
THE WONDERS OF EUROPEAN SOCIALIZED MEDICINE
FRANCE
In August 2003 more than 11,000 people, mostly elderly, died during a heat wave in France without care because doctors and nurses, as well as the family members of the deceased, were on their summer vacations and could not interrupt it. The situation was so Kafkaesque that funeral homes did not have enough capacity for so many corpses and they had to store the bodies in warehouses’ food refrigerators, and refrigerated trucks until the family completed their holiday and returned home to reclaim their dead elderly.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.