Comments on: Congressmen Enjoy Secret On-Site Clinic

By: preparing4theworst

preparing4theworst — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 06:54:49 +0000

I beg to differ (but only slightly) about possible staffing. They couldn’t use Paramedics because the good ones prefer to be out on the street. If by chance they did use medics they would be either told that “we can’t treat oral clap/verbal diarrhea” or if I thought I could get away with it I would start a large bore IV wide open, and park them in a cold room to wait on the doctor to come from wherever. Then I would tell the doctor that this looked pretty minor and could wait until whatever worse cases we had were evaluated and treated….meanwhile we have this person sitting in a cold room (in a gown of course) with a filling bladder…….signed Western Street Medic/16 year veteran caregiver

By: Liberals Demise

Liberals Demise — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:35:38 +0000

Ted Kennedy’s car trunk going off a bridge in the middle of the night comes to mind.

By: MinnesotaRush

MinnesotaRush — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:50:09 +0000

By the way, how many of you all get to take your little doggie to work with you? Ya’ think they might have a handful of vets on hand for these thiefs pets, too?

By: MinnesotaRush

MinnesotaRush — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:47:31 +0000

Well, heck! This is good news! Didn’t o-blah-blah AND the smartest woman in the world, BOTH, say they wanted us ALL to have the kind of health care they as members of congress have (???).

I got a little tickle in my throat just startin’ .. gonna hafta call the Navy doctors in the morning. Do ya’ s’pose they make house calls?

By: MinnesotaRush

MinnesotaRush — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:43:30 +0000

Pro .. there’s so many things I enjoy about you; but I’m having a hard time deciding what I like best .. your graciousness or generosity. You really do a great job with both. Keep up the good work, my man! :-)

By: TwilightZoned

TwilightZoned — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:41:02 +0000

Catie, you got that right!

By: catie

catie — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:52:56 +0000

Remember this was the idiot who tried to drive up the Capitol steps not that long ago. I think he said that “ambien” made him do it. This kid is a pig just like his old man.

By: canary

canary — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:19:33 +0000

How much did rich Teddy Kennedy & Pat Kennedy’s (drug problem) bills come to. All they need is an ambulance stand by, for heart attacks or panick attacks that the despot Obomies might provoke. This might explain the rediculous smiles on the Obomies faces all the time, after taking happy pills. Or maybe Teddy was sharing.

By: Consilience

Consilience — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:52:24 +0000

For my money, we should throw every-damn one of them out in the House elections next year—God knows we can’t do any worse!

By: proreason

proreason — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:44:15 +0000

And you sneer when I say they live like princes.

Their paltry 180,000+ salaries don’t scratch the surface of their compensation. Their pensions alone are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.

And then, there is the income from illegal activities.

You couldn’t put a price on it.

Fortunately for us, they work up to 4 days a week, with only a couple of month long vacations a year, with the occasional quarterly junket to hot spots in the world like Paris and Rome.

But really, how many of us plebes would be capable of voting the right way on bills we haven’t read, and don’t know the contents, and can’t explain.

They certainly deserve their princely benefits.

By: caligirl9

caligirl9 — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:38:03 +0000

“Meeting the needs and the whims of members of Congress with almost no concern for costs?”

Hmmm wasn’t there a little article posted yesterday about how sometimes “less medical care is more?”

Another prime example of “Do as I say, not as I do.” And this Cadillac health care isn’t something that has just popped up in the last nine months. When was this put into place and at whose order? (Please not Reagan please not Reagan!)

As I read this article, these people are fully double-covered. So they can see the OAP doc and if they don’t like what he or she has to say, go to the doctor paid for by their federal employee health coverage. Neither knows what the other is doing or has already done.

Nice.

There is no reason something like this couldn’t and shouldn’t be staffed by paramedics, nurse practitioners or physician assistants. There are hospitals all over the place—stabilize someone who has fainted and send ‘em to the hospital. Give the congressperson with strep throat some antibiotics and send ‘em back to work.

If the Navy wants to give our free care, take it to the streets.

Another prime example of longstanding government waste and hypocrisy.