http://hotair.com/archives/200.....nt-2404692

I don’t use the VA just for that reason………3rd class treatment and they still believe in “BAD” blood letting and leeches. There is “NO” reason why the people who stood at Hells Gates while you all slept should be treated like this for any reason but you won’t hear them bitch about it. When my time comes I’ll probably be there……..maybe!

I implore all Americans to visit a VA Hospital and talk to the Veterans who trod the halls. Make their day and say, “Hello and Thank You!!”

I explained why to him but he said they don’t do that unless you have high BP. I couldn’t believe it. How are you going to know if you have high BP if you never take the pressure.

Of course now…understanding socialized medicine better…If they don’t know you have it they don’t waste money treating it.

Of course that went further when his father began to have Mini strokes…They didn’t want to see him until he could get an appointment weeks later. And even then they didn’t do anything about the mini strokes. Just kept sending him home…of course he had the massive one a few weeks later and again…age…prevented any kind of treatment.

It all works together for the common good …not yours…the state’s.

My hand is up.

http://townhall.com/columnists.....dical_care

1. There is no health care crisis .
2. The reason costs are higher now is there are more life-saving procedures and drugs.
3. Other country “contain” costs by limiting (rationing) access to medical care.
4. The “rush” is so politicians can gain power, not to improve health care

THE WAR MAY BE OVER …..BUT THE BODY COUNT CONTINUES!!

War veterans get their treatments but retirees’ pay into Tri-Care for theirs.
Just goes to show you, “Nothing is Free!!”

Anyway, one of the stories recently was about an women who had gone through IVF in Britain. She was told she had miscarried and for months she went back and forth to doctors to see why she was feeling so exhausted and bleeding chronically. Now I am no political genius but birthing and, unfortunately loosing, babies is something I know plenty about. In any hospital or clinic in the US, pregnancy is one of the first things, if not the first thing that is ruled out when a female who has reached menarche and has not yet reached menopause presents with any sort of abdominal complaint. Further, an ultrasound would probably be done next to determine the cause of the bleeding especially if the mother has recently miscarried, after all, it could be retained tissue that could cause serious complications that place the mother at risk of things up to and including death.

This woman was not given a basic blood test for pregnancy nor an ultrasound that is pretty easily obtained in the US and didn’t know she was pregnant for more than 6 months. That is absolutely ridiculous.

Don’t even get me started on military medicine.

I don’t know if these stories are made up or not, but I know for a FACT if you qualify for disability you automatically get food stamps and medicare. The guvment is now taking care of you so, they throw you on the guvment insurance. I have to believe, since this story is BS then the rest of these so-called sob stories are more than likely made up as well. It is like being in the witness box, if you tell one lie how on earth can the jury believe anything else you say??

(It’s the answer I expected.)

Rusty ask you…”Have you witnessed government-run healthcare in other countries. I have. Canada, Great Britain, France and Germany?”

Let me know if you want to talk to me about my British father in law…whom the socialized medicine KILLED simply because he was 85. He only needed nourishment to stay strong enough to accomplish rehab. But at 85 he was a waste of resources. I’ll be more than willing to tell the story to you.

Either you are a starry eyed young socialist or completely stupid. One thing to remember dude….someday YOU will be old…I know you are “invincible” now but it will happen if you are lucky.

If not and you are injured or have a Downs Syndrome child or have a premature child or have to watch a loved one die who could get treatment…but alas…too expensive so tough luck.

THINK. New concept. But there are consequences and ramifications to everything we do.

I have a difficult time understanding people who so willingly give up their rights to make their own choices to some mind numbed deadbeat who only shows up for a paycheck. Is that who you want to make your choices for yourself.

Think of the fun you will have thinking of what your life might be like if only you could get to the medical treatment and/or medications that some numb skull won’t OK for you. The road to your early death will be filled with laughs.

When I went in for my Army physical, the doctor who was inspecting me was 87 years old (I kid you NOT) and had a sty in his eye, so he could barely see what he was writing down. He found out I was an English professor and chatted about great books he read in the 1930s, for over 75 minutes, while 40 or 50 other recruits were sitting outside waiting to get approved. I wanted to interrupt him and ask about everyone else waiting outside, but he was so excited to talk to a literature teacher, he couldn’t contain himself. Finally, he delivered a long oratory about the problem of homosexuality and how he thinks it is the sign we are in the end times.

If you want universal, free or cheap health care for everyone, you want what I described above. You will spend a whole day or longer waiting to see a doctor, and the doctor won’t feel particularly urgent about treating you, because whether you live or die (or in my case, whether I have hemorrhoids or bad lungs or whatever he was supposed to check me for) he will be getting the same little crappy fee and will have to face the same annoying faceless crowd of desperate people tomorrow. Any doctor you see will be one of the few who remain in the profession, perhaps against their better judgment.

If you don’t like your care, the doctor will probably tell you what the Army doctor told the recruits who started to complain about their wait: “Write to your congressman.”

Good luck with that.

Ask people who deal with the VA or Army doctors a lot, and you will hear a lot of stories like that.