Re: Canadians Come to Us For Child Birth

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A socialized healthcare system here will tank quicker than a
Democrat in work clothes.

If the liberals take D.C. then this is the first thing they will do.
Watch our hospitals go to *** and get ready to wait 8 hours at the
ER.

You're lucky to make it to the ER if you lack health insurance.

Wrong! Any ER in the country has to take you. You are left with a bill
that you can pay 25 dollars a month towards until it is paid off.



"No
insurance? Here take two asprins and call the morgue. We can't help
you" Hospitals and doctors now won't take you unless you either pay
up front or hock your house to gaurantee the money. Sometimes, if
your lucky, you die on the waiting room floor while the janitor
sweeps up around you.

I have what is recognized as one of the best health care providers in
the United States, the government run VA Medical Administraion. Not
without it's flaws and under pressure by this adminsistration for
funding cutbacks,
but still recognized as one of the best in the world. It has often
been suggested as a model for a nationwide system of health care. I
will say without hesitation that I have never been better treated
than at the VA. I
have been in and around it long enough to know why, which is too long
a story for me to get into here, but it really works and works well.

When there arent rats crawling over your feet...

VA hospitals work okay for some but they often having funding cuts
associated with them and are already a huge cost.

With that said, the VA hospitals do not cover 300 million citizens and
20 million illegal aliens.




Which is exactly why the medical INDUSTRY has to be revamped in this
country to provide health care for the 300 million plus people in this
country. It's not just the cost of treating people, it's the cost of NOT
treating people. We're real good at providing emergency care but not
basic care that would prevent some of the more expensive procedures that
inevitably result from lack of prevention. Treating a TB patient
properly before he/she infects others good for the general population.
Why do we have the highest infant mortality rate of any industrialized
country?
Almost all of the VA hospitals in this country are associated with major
teaching institutions which have been recognized as the best places to
get treatment. When I lived in Tennessee, I had hip replacements done at
the VA in Nashville which is associated with Vanderbilt University, one
of the best orthopedic teaching hospitals in the country. Cleveland
Ohio, the Cleveland Clinic. Los Angeles, UCLA Medical Center.
Cincinnati Ohio, University of Cincinnati. Those are the ones I know
about. I go to a VA sattelite office ten minutes from my house. I see
the same doctor every time. He's an Air Force reserve major and flight
surgeon. When I need a specialist, he sets me up with one at the
hospital thrity minutes from the house down next to the University. If I
should travel anywhere, my records are instantly available to any VA
doctor anywhere in the country. All of my Xrays, MRIs, prescription
information, everything. They can be made available to any doctor
outside of the system by request at any time. I took a blood test at the
hospital one day, and by the time I got home, I had a message that my
doctor from the local office had called to say that he saw my potassium
level was low and he had already prescribed some for me. Before I got
back home!! All of my prescriptions arrive monthly in the US mail or by
FedEx. The cost is seven dollars per script per month. The VA, unlike
the Medicare program, can shop for cheaper generics and buy in bulk.
They are shipped from a central pharmacy in the next state.
I'm always running into vets who did not get into the system early and
would have trouble qualifying now. There are the cutbacks due to lack of
funding. But the VA will accept payment from your private insurance if
you have it. They do not participate in Medicare, though, which I think
is a mistake. Sure funding cutbacks make things more difficult.
Especially for those guys who are bearing the burden for the useless
fight we are in now. We should be taking them into the system instantly
and meeting their every need from the minute they step out of Iraq or
Afghanatan. But it takes money that the American taxpayer seems
unwilling to spend on those who would sacrifice their lives on orders
from those who would not and did not serve.

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