Health
insurance is not a right either, it is also a service. Can you control what an
insurance company does and what pricing systems they use? Can you control what
government does now that they are in charge of your socialized health insurance
and healthcare, including the 15-member death panel?
We know the
Senate does not care about Americans’ health insurance premiums and the quality
of their healthcare. If they did, they would not have passed without reading and
then failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), socialized medicine
under government control. Passed by Democrats in the dead of night, and deemed by
the Supreme Court a tax, ACA became a burden for Americans who were mostly
satisfied with their previous premiums and their healthcare delivery. Sure,
there were improvements necessary but not an entire overhaul worth trillions.
What good is
having a shiny insurance card that says you are entitled to Obamacare but that
care is denied to you when doctors are not taking your insurance, the quality
of care is very poor, procedures are denied due to rationing and age, and your
deductibles shot through the roof?
Like most
Americans, who saw their health insurance premiums skyrocket and their care worsen
since 2010, I am confused why politicians are forcing this monstrosity called
Obamacare on us. Congressmen have exempted themselves from Obamacare and are
protected by their own private plans but the rest of us will eventually have to
suffer under the socialized medicine of the type that sentenced baby Gard to
death in the U.K.
Seniors are
already treated like "units" in hospitals. My mom was recently the
victim of Obamacare in one of the alleged best hospitals in Northern Virginia.
She was kept solely on IV fluids for three days, even though she is skin and
bones, so that she would not throw up and force doctors to give her the upper
GI and endoscopy tests she needed. Instead, they treated her for a bladder
infection which was not the reason why she had been brought to the ER - she was
vomiting blood and had stroke level BP. She
was crying for solid food!
Her doctor
explained to me that they could not do the upper GI and endoscopy because the
radiology group located in the hospital gave priority to outpatients, unless an
inpatient was currently bleeding and/or vomiting. She vomited but they ignored
her. Was it because she is 85 years old and an Obamacare "unit" and
not worth spending the money on, or was it because she is a legal immigrant?
She was
starved for three days and her important medicines for conditions like blood
pressure and dementia were not administered, causing a serious relapse in her
physical and mental condition. This is medical abuse when you tell a patient
that comes into the ER with serious symptoms that they cannot have procedures
except on an outpatient basis at a later date and withhold important meds that
they are currently on.
No amount of
protests, complaints, or inquiries on my part made a difference. This is what
happens under socialized medicine when bureaucrats who know best make life and
death decisions over us and our loved ones.
Mom lived
under the boot of communism and escaped to this country in her late forties. The
communists stripped her of everything she had ever earned, owned, and saved,
including her pension after 30 years of work. She was not even given my dad’s
pension. She lived here for over three decades under relative freedom. It is
sad that now, in her twilight years, she is made to suffer again and will die
under the neglect of socialized medicine that allocates funds to more productive
individuals. Mom was productive too in her younger years.
Little
Charlie Gard lost his battle with socialized medicine rationing in the U.K.
Those who are unable to protect themselves, children and the elderly, are the
first victims of socialized and rationed medical care because they cannot
defend themselves. The way we treat seniors, the weak, and the most vulnerable
speaks volumes of our lack of civilization and compassion. We should protect
wildlife and our habitat but it seems that we care more for minnows and polar
bears than we do human beings.
Mom lost five
pounds she could not afford to lose while in hospital care for three days. They
were more worried that she might fall than her actual survival. She was not fed
anything for three days except water and IV antibiotics. She was lucky to have
gotten out with her life.
It is bad
enough that some elderly are physically abused in nursing homes and/or
neglected by underpaid and understaffed medical personnel; they must now suffer
the indignity of denied hospital medical care in the rationing environment of
Medicare and Medicaid that were shortchanged in order to help fund Obamacare, and
by the scarcity of doctors and nurses created by Obamacare.
So much for
the unaffordable Affordable Care Act that provides substandard medical care and
offers expensive insurance premiums to Americans who are now faced with huge
deductibles each year, possible loss of insurance, and fines by the IRS for
non-compliance.
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