Universal Healthcare - This pill you do not want to swallow!!!

This is going to become a big topic for me, Universal Healthcare, or as I call it ObamaCare. Tell everybody you can to call their Congressional representatives, all of them, and tell them NOT to vote for ObamaCare.

But everybody deserves healthcare you say...........anybody can go into the ER and get treated with no money in their pocket, we already have universal healthcare. If we let socialized medicine happen in this country we will go from having the best healthcare in the world to what they have in Canada and in England and every other country with socialized medicine. If you do not believe what I am telling you research it your self, you should anyway.

People from around the world come to the US for healthcare because we have the best care and it is available. Did you know if you, your wife, your daughter, your mother were living in England and got Breast Cancer there are treatments they will not get because the government says the drugs are to expensive. Same goes for men with Prostate Cancer and it goes way beyond cancer treatment, including emergency care and more.

Please read this  article from Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Inc.

A Voice for Private Physicians Since 1943
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This article shows you some of the evils of socialized medicine and what you can expect if ObamaCare becomes reality.

Here is the link but it us also reprinted below, http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/0019

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NHS updates: Patients starve; not allowed to pay for extra care

February 27th, 2008

Recent news from the UK:

1. Statistics obtained by Conservatives show that the number of patients released from British National Health Service (NHS) hospitals with malnutrition has doubled in the decade since Labour came to power, increasing from 74,431 in 1997 to 139,127. While most of the patients had nutritional deficiencies on admission, the nutritional condition of at least 8,500 actually worsened during their hospital stay. Last year, health minister Ivan Lewis admitted that patients were being starved on the wards, with some elderly patients given little more than a scoop of mashed potatoes for lunch. Often, elderly patients are given non-pureed food that they cannot chew or swallow. Food trays may be placed out of reach and simply taken away when patients are too weak to get to them (Telegraph 1/1/08).

2. To meet government targets, which require emergency department patients to be treated within 4 hours, thousands of patients are kept in ambulances outside the department for hours. Last year, more than 43,000 patients waited for more than an hour before being allowed into the emergency room.

Ambulances that are being used as “mobile waiting rooms” are unavailable to take fresh calls.

The Labour government brought in the 4-hour standard in an effort to end the scandal of patients waiting in casualty for days (Daily Mail 2/20/08).

3. British patients are being denied certain operations because of lack of worthiness, based on smoking, obesity, heavy drinking, or age. Officials are urging patients to turn to “self care” instead of physician visits.

“The threat to cut benefits to the old and the unhealthy in Britain is a clear confirmation that health care can never be free…. The threat also shows that health care can’t be truly universal, at least not for the long term, because it becomes too costly to maintain as such” (“Health Freezes Over,” Investor’s Business Daily1/29/08).

4. One way to relieve strains on the system is to allow patients to pay privately for portions of their care—while still receiving “basic” care from the NHS. For example, patient Debbie Hirst, who has metastatic breast cancer, was attempting to raise $120,000 to pay for Avastin, a drug widely used in the U.S. and Europe but not available to NHS patients, at least not until the cancer is so widespread that treatment may be hopeless.

Such arrangements have tacitly been allowed before, but in this case the doctor delivered the news that he was getting his wrists slapped by the higher-ups. If the patient paid for Avastin, she’d have to pay for all of her treatment—far more than she could afford.

Patients “hopscotch” all the time, say paying for a timely private consultation or MRI, then getting their surgery from the NHS.

But “[t]hat way lies the end of the founding principles of the NHS,” said health secretary Alan Johnson to Parliament.

The rules for private copayments are contradictory and confusing. The idea of the NHS may be to assure that rich and poor get equal treatment, but the system is riddled with inequities. Drug availability, waiting lists, and per capita spending for cancer care vary wildly from region to region.

As Mrs. Hirst explained: I’m a person who left school at 15 and I’ve worked all my life and I’ve paid into the system, and I’m not going to live long enough to get my old-age pension from this government” (Sarah Lyall, New York Times 2/21/08).

Could that be the main point?

End of Article

Next Blog more info on Socialized Medicine issue, but first check out the survival stats below.

Here are some survival rates from telegraph.co.uk Aug 24, 2007

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1560849/UK-cancer-survival-rate-lowest-in-Europe.html

 

By Nicole Martin
Last Updated: 1:56AM BST 24 Aug 2007

European cancer survival rates