Watch the Ad ABC Won’t Air During the ObamaCare Infomercial June 24, 2009
The ad ABC wouldn’t allow Conservatives for Patients’ Rights buy time for during the ObamaCare Infomercia. Now you know the real story of nationalized Health Care
It’s a different time in America. What happened to fair and reasoned debate. As Hannity said, “Journalism is dead.”
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As a healthcare professional for the past 20 hears, I have been watching it come to this. The high cost of healthcare has been blamed on litigation costs. But in fact, healthcare costs have risen at pretty much the same rate as the cost of all other commodities in our society. People complain about paying $5 for a Tylenol when they are in the hospital. But they forget that part of that cost goes to the salary of the nurse who gives the medicine, part to the pharmacist who dispenses the medicine, part to the tech who counted and stored the medicine when it arrived, part to the shipping clerk who received the medicine when it arrived at the hosptial, part to the truck driver who delivered the medicine, part to the person at the drug company that helped process and packag the medicine – and on and on. All of these individuals expect and receive paychecks. They all expected and no doubt received a raise last year and will expect one again this year. They all have families to support, bills to pay, etc. Whom should be denied any of this just so that Tylenol could cost less? None of us work for free. Where do we make the cuts?
During these years I have worked with many nurses and other healthcare workers that have come from Canada. They have told me they came to US because they wanted to take care of people, not watch them die. through the years I have had patients that have sold all they have to come to US to get the care their “home land” refused to give them.
We actually already have government-run healthcare here. It is called The Veterans Administration. While you can get GREAT care there, it is not easy to do. The approval process is complex, to say the least, and very cumbersome. It takes countless hours moving from one person to the next, reams of paper documenting everything, review by dozens of people, many extra examinations to confirm need/diagnosis/etc., phone calls upon phone calls… It is just a lot of work by people who are very ill and/or their families who are scared, exhausted and completely unfamiliar with how to “work the system” to get what is needed. The general opinion by those enrolled in the plan is that it is not the best care available because it seems so UN-available. These people often go elsewhere to get their care – at their own expense – because it just seems too difficult and the obstacles are too insurmountable. I believe we can expect just exactly this when our government runs all of our healthcare. An 80+ year old man will not be entitled to receive treatment for prostate cancer – he is just too old. Brain cancer in a 75 year old woman? No treatment – she is no longer an actively contributing member of society and therefore not entitled to receive expensive treatment. A newborn with severe birth defects? Do not rescue him – he will only become an expensive drain on society. Where will it end? These questions are already being addressed and answered in the negative by many managed care providers today. When the government gets its greasy fingers in the pie it will become even worse.