Government Healthcare LOL

“And this is relevant to the United States how? Is this the same as the reports in the States about how Doctors have left surgical instruments in a patient, or have operated on the wrong extremity (and this would be pre-supposed US "government run heath care hooey")?”

“This is one of the problems with our overly specialized medical system, a right side surgeon can't replace a left sider in many operations. We have turned these mechanics into gawds with over compensation and divine like admirations.”

“wrong place
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“Woman died after being given 30 year smoker's lungs

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/woman-died-after-being-given-smokers-lungs-2000852.html”

“What a bunch of silly Britties.”

“

In order to make Obamacare appear "deficit neutral," the Democrats chose not to fund the so-called "Doc Fix"...thereby putting into motion a 21% cut in payments to already underpaid doctors who provide medicare and medicaid services.

Despite their transparent cooking of the books, Obama and the dems are now demanding billions of dollars in new, unfunded debt to pay the doctors - claiming (accurately, if belatedly) that failure to do so "jeopardizes the health of elderly citizens."

A temporary funding measure is expected to pass...but in the interim, doctors will receive the new, lower payments and have to file additional reams of paperwork to eventually get the rest of what they're owed.

And more than ever before, they're saying "I'm mad as hell and I'm not taking it anymore."

New statistics show that record numbers of doctors are refusing to see medicare and medicaid patients. According to Lori Helm, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, the doctors are saying "I can't afford to keep losing money."

So thanks to the Obama administration, tar balls aren't the only thing that are going to be collecting on beaches. There will also be a lot more retired doctors.”

“Yep here you go...Gov'ment health Care at its best...and because its "free"..NO LAWSUITS

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/30/va.hospital.hiv/index.html

CNN) -- A Missouri VA hospital is under fire because it may have exposed more than 1,800 veterans to life-threatening diseases such as hepatitis and HIV.

John Cochran VA Medical Center in St. Louis has recently mailed letters to 1,812 veterans telling them they could contract hepatitis B, hepatitis C and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) after visiting the medical center for dental work, said Rep. Russ Carnahan.

Carnahan said Tuesday he is calling for a investigation into the issue and has sent a letter to President Obama about it.

"This is absolutely unacceptable," said Carnahan, a Democrat from Missouri. "No veteran who has served and risked their life for this great nation should have to worry about their personal safety when receiving much needed healthcare services from a Veterans Administration hospital."

The issue stems from a failure to clean dental instruments properly, the hospital told CNN affiliate KSDK.”

“http://www.thelocal.se/28150/20100803/

Jonas, 32, sewed up his own leg after ER wait

A 32-year-old took the needle into his hands when he tired of the wait at Sundsvall hospital in northern Sweden and sewed up the cut in his leg himself. The man was later reported to the police for his impromptu handiwork.”

“Missouri voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a federal mandate to purchase health insurance, rebuking President Barack Obama's administration and giving Republicans their first political victory in a national campaign to overturn the controversial health care law passed by Congress in March.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_c847dc7c-564c-5c70-8d90-dfd25ae6de56.html”

“Good for them!”

“of course, this has nothing to do with the insignificant racist tea party ...”

“Just because you call a confidential government hotline about the sex toy stuck up your butt doesn't mean your problem is going to stay confidential

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/health/health/3127399/NHS-Direct-staff-ridicule-callers.html”

“Did you learn by experience again?”

“Stove....I think you hit a nerve on Sale. So Sale....what have you "accidentally" ended up going to the ER with in you? (LOL)”

“Can anyone give me the name of ANY Democrat Politician who is running for reelection on their vote for Obamacare?

(I expect crickets from the liberals on this one).”

“This is why I don't live on Long Island”

“Zac...you on the right thread?”

“Yes I am on the right thread. Now for the important question, why would the person behind the counter at DMV not let me buy a book of stamps and let me mail a bottle of gas to my grandma in Florida?
last edited: 9/08/10 6:57:46 AM”

“Just curious, zac: why are you mailing a bottle of gas to gramma?”

“Her electric lawnmower won't start”

“They sell stamps at the DMV? And they accept outgoing mail of flammable items?

Its like the Alabama boy who walked into the store in Atlanta and asked,"Can I have a moon pie and a RC Cola?"

The Store owner asks,"Are you from Alabama perhaps?"

Incensed the boy says, "If I asked for spaghetti would you think I was Italian? If I asked for rice would you think I was japanese? So what the heck makes you think I am from Alabama when I ask for a Moon Pie and and RC cola?"

The Store Owner replies,"Because this is a Hardware store."”

“
Why do Rebublicans want poor people to die from treatable conditions?

When they get up to them Pearly Gates they can explain it all to Old Pete, I guess.

”

“Here is one that will piss off the liberals.

YEP....whats the real problem with American Health Care....?

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/trial-lawyers-medical-liability-costs-only-56-billion-per-year-102551729.html


Our medical malpractice system costs Americans, insurers, and the government $56 billion in increased costs every year.

[A] new study � published Tuesday in the journal Health Affairs � found the annual cost related to medical liability is $55.6 billion. Most of that spending ($45.6 billion) is related to defensive medicine � the tests, drugs and other procedures that doctors prescribe in order to limit the risk of being sued for malpractice.

The trial lawyers� spin? It ONLY costs $55 billion per year!

The report, according to the American Association for Justice (AAJ), �shows that limiting the rights of injured patients will do practically nothing to lower health care costs��the lobbyist group said Tuesday in an e-mail.

Only $56 billion per year. Well, then it�s not even worth doing medical malpractice reform. $56 billion per year is barely enough for a good lobster dinner.



Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/trial-lawyers-medical-liability-costs-only-56-billion-per-year-102551729.html#ixzz0z8DcHlHH


Solution, institute a Loser pays. If the Plaintiff cannot afford the legal bills, the Attorney will be required to cover it out of their "errors and ommisions" insurance.”

“http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703556604575502160531647630.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

California, the novelist Wallace Stegner famously wrote, is like the rest of America, only more so�meaning that wherever the country is headed, the Golden State is probably there already. So the state's ObamaCare advance planning deserves closer scrutiny, given that it mirrors the regulatory and ideological model that the White House favors for everyone else.

In a matter of days, California will set a precedent for the future of the U.S. individual and small-business insurance markets via ObamaCare's "exchanges," where people will purchase coverage at heavily subsidized rates. The exchanges don't start up until 2014, but the states were given wide bureaucratic latitude in how they're run, and Sacramento is using this flexibility to convert them into a pretext for imposing de facto price controls on the insurance industry.”

“LOL

Greece has opted for Amputation rather than treatment of diabetes....”

“White House attempts to quiet revived talk of 'death panels'

The Obama administration is trying to quiet talk about so-called “death panels” after The New York Times reported Sunday that a new Medicare regulation includes incentives for end-of-life-care planning.

http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/135167-white-house-tries-to-smother-new-death-panel-talk”

“Looks like it.”

“Yawl still think Obama was prez in 2003'

http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/08/13/oh-those-death-panels/”

“swedish healthcare

http://www.thelocal.se/31130/20101229/

Man's #&%!$ amputated following misdiagnosis ”

“Don't have to wait for sunny days to get to Sweden when the USA can supply all the mistakes one needs.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2010-11-19-editorial19_ST_N.htm”

“Government Florida Federal Judge Rules ‘Entire’ Health Care Law Unconstitutional

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/federal-florida-judge-rules-obamacare-individual-mandate-unconstitutional/”

“*snicker*”

“LOL”

“the stage is now set...now we just gotta hope the supreme court doesn't f it up”

“I fully expect SCOTUS to strike down the provision of the law that compels the citizenry to purchase health insurance. That part of the Bill was a gift to Big Pharma and facilitated by Pelloser and Reedie -- two of the worst Congressional leaders of all time.”

“yes, but the rest of the bill was kinda contingent on that part...with out it, the funding isn't there...it's like insurance itself, with out a certain number of policy holders, it doesn't work”

“At the State level, many states have the right to mandate citizenry to purchase Health care. Now how is this going to work when the rite gets interstate purchase as they wanted?”

“Yes, thrifty. The Party of Noe wouldn't allow the bill up for a vote because the public option was considered Socialist.


So, like good little plebes, Pelloser and Reedie buckled to the numb-nut Republican party to shuffle more money to the hogs. The Presidents hands are not clean in this either.

As usual, the Republicans threw a temper-tantrum and the Democrats gave them a sucker.

The public option was the way to go. There is nothing wrong with choices and the type of heath care plan Paul and all of the Republicans and Pseudo Republicans get (government health care) should be good enough for those who cannot be covered through employment.”

“The public option was the way to go.

except, you're forgetting about the majority of americans that are against government funded health care...it's not the government's responsibility or right to provide health care”

“Thrifty --

I didn't forget. The party of Noe did a good job in messaging and convinced that the public option was something government shouldn't be in the business of providing. Unfortunately, the government already provides heath care via Medicare and the V.A. The public option was a pooling of folks in order to get a better rate; similar to some auto insurance companies and use its weight if subsidies were needed in some cases.

I honestly don't understand why it's not a big deal for TPers to be on the government teet via Medicare, but they're against government providing heath care for those who actually need it. If I supported the TPer platform, I would be outraged over this hypocrisy.”

“And consequently, every elected Congressman should have to buy their own freakin' health insurance on the open market.

Welcome to our world, muthafukahs!”

“"And consequently, every elected Congressman should have to buy their own freakin' health insurance on the open market."

Absolu fracking lutely. Cut their pay and legacy costs as well.

Balance the budget by example. Cut the fat, then cut it again. End corporate welfare and farm subs. Get farms out of the the fat corporate hands and back into the hands of the independent farmer.”

“There's a lot of butthurt moonbats on this thread defending their messiah.”

“And specifically, who would that be, Mr. Stovie?”

“If citizens united found that Corps have the same first amendment rites as a citizen then when will that same court take away the citizens burden of responsibilities that the Corps don't have?”