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Skriven 2011-03-20 16:52:00 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av BOB ACKLEY
Ärende: Names will never hurt me.
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-=> BOB ACKLEY wrote to MICHIEL VAN DER VLIST <=-

 BA> Replying to a message of Michiel van der Vlist to Robert Bashe:

 BA>  MvdV> Hello Robert,

 BA>  MvdV> On Monday March 14 2011 16:46, you wrote to me:

 RB>> Like it or not, most people _want_ something for their taxes. They
 RB>> want something tangible, not just a nice feeling of doing good for
 RB>> _others_.

 BA>  MvdV> Bob Bob, I /do/ get things in return for my taxes. For one: the
 BA>  MvdV> certainthy that I will get medical help when I need it, whether
 BA> I
 BA>  MvdV> then have the money or not. And that is just one thing, the list
 BA> is
 BA>  MvdV> long.

 BA> While the American left wing will never admit to the fact, it has
 BA> always been possible in this country for those who cannot afford care
 BA> to get it.  It's called
 BA> 'charity care' and most US hospitals provide it.  Also in point of
 BA> fact, decades ago
 BA> the US government passed the 'Hill-Burton Act' which provided private
 BA> hospitals with
 BA> money for construction, and hospitals that accepted that money are
 BA> *required* to provide
 BA> some level of charity care to the community.

 BA> Contrary to the caterwauling of the American left wing, people in this
 BA> country are not
 BA> dying in the streets for lack of medical care. 

How about dying at home?
Not however due to lack of medical care but due to incompetent medical care.

One first hand example out of literally dozens I could cite:

I've been telling many and varied physicians for 20 years now
that I have low blood pressure.

I've been telling those same physicians that the blood pressure spike
they see record in their offices is due to pain and pain alone.

For twenty years now this has been utterly and completely ignored.
Recently relatively minor health issues escalated quite dramatically 
due to those physicians dismissing my claims.

This resulted in no less than five utterly unnecessary 
and rather handsomely billed hospitilizations the care derived from
which did not in the least remediate any condition.

However the second to last hospitalisation resulted in 
my true blood pressure having been recorded for the very first time 
in twenty years.

A doctor messed up and did the proper thing and prescribed pain medication 
for me.

My blood pressure promptly dropped  near 50 points on the first day
and another 40 the next.

In a two day period this represents a drop from 188/88 to 94/62
just for having had appropriate pain remedition applied.

A mere *twenty years* and five otherwise unnecessary recent hospitalizations
billed to the American tax payer as well as four strokes for which I
took the hit.

Six unnecessary hospitalisations if one includes the very first in 1991
related to this very same condition.

Ooops.



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