Text 15650, 68 rader
Skriven 2011-03-22 06:00:36 av Bob Ackley (1:300/3)
  Kommentar till text 15598 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
Ärende: Names will never hurt me.
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Replying to a message of WAYNE CHIRNSIDE to BOB ACKLEY:

 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
 BA>>> care to get it.  It's called 'charity care' and most US hospitals
 BA>>> provide it.  Also in point of fact, decades ago the US government
 BA>>> passed the 'Hill-Burton Act' which provided private hospitals with
 BA>>> money for construction, and hospitals that accepted that money are
 BA>>> *required* to provide some level of charity care to the community.

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

 WC>> How about dying at home?

 BA>> It happens.  Not for lack of medical care, though.

 WC> Really?

Really.

 WC> Care to account for the tens of thousands acknowledged to die each
 WC> year because of incompetent medical care?

Obamacare won't fix that.

One problem is the fact that Americans simply don't accept the fact that they
are going to die.  Where, when and of what doesn't matter, it's going to
happen.

 WC> Why did it take over 20 years for any medical _professional_ to accept
 WC> the fact that the pain I'm in results in a 94 point elevation in my
 WC> systolic blood pressure despite being repeatedly told by me that that
 WC> was the case? 

I don't know.  I'm not a medical professional (although I do hold a degree in 
health care administration).  One can always find individual examples of idiocy
in any profession.  In point of fact there is one physician on the staff of the
clinic at Offutt AFB that I prefer to NOT see.  Note that when I was working in
Omaha hospitals I did occasionally hear horror stories about idiots with MD
degrees.

 WC> During that time I suffered no fewer than four strokes with the last
 WC> being in 2007.

 WC>> Not however due to lack of medical care but due to incompetent
 WC>> medical care.

 BA>> Obamacare will not fix that and will probably make it worse.


 WC> Interesting.
 WC> Well have to see.

 WC> I'm not yet sufficiently ambulatory to get my current circumstances
 WC> taken care of and given my last three experiences somewhat reluctant
 WC> to once again call an ambulance.

For most folks it's an expensive taxi ride.  In 2004 the ambulance trip from
the
Offutt AFB (former) emergency room to a civilian hospital - about 7 miles -
cost
over $500.  I could have driven it for a lot less and had my care there instead
of
at the (former) AF hospital when I was discharged four days later.

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