| Heaven Help Our Health Care System if Hillary | | | | Their quality was inferior based on physician |
| gets elected. | | | | shortages, medicine shortages and long waits |
| | | | for needed surgery. Market based competition |
| I remember when President Lyndon B. Johnson | | | | was begun in 1989 after 41 years of terrible |
| raised the costs of medical care for the | | | | medical care. |
| American people when he initiated the great | | | | |
| society and introduced Medicare and Medicaid. | | | | Some of the headlines of the latest articles |
| | | | of of Great Britain\\\'s Medical Care: |
| Prior to this physicians charged one fee for | | | | |
| office visits. It didn\\\'t matter what tests | | | | UK lags behind on cancer drug access. |
| you had performed, they were all included for | | | | |
| the one flat fee. | | | | Specialist stroke care "lottery" |
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| Medicare and Medicaid changed all that. The | | | | Cancer patients told life-prolonging |
| government forced the physician charge by | | | | treatment too expensive. |
| what procedure was performed and what | | | | |
| supplies were used. This immediately caused | | | | 5000 elderly killed each year for lack of |
| medical care prices to rise. | | | | care beds. |
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| This was the beginning of socialized medicine | | | | British Health Care Rationed. |
| in the United States of America. | | | | |
| | | | Life saving cancer drugs held from patients. |
| The latest supper fiasco is the new CMS 1500 | | | | |
| Medicare form. | | | | British body rejects EPO drugs for cancer |
| | | | patients. |
| The federal government knew it had to convert | | | | |
| to different forms about 11 years ago. They | | | | 2000 British doctors out of work. |
| did nothing for 11 years. They waited until | | | | |
| the last minute to change the computer | | | | National Health Service faces rising bill for |
| programs and Medicare forms. | | | | negligence claims. |
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| Here's what the inept federal government did. | | | | British boy to go to India for operation. |
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| They designed the form completely wrong | | | | Figures show more patients waiting for |
| according to good design practices. Typing | | | | operations. |
| lines in the wrong place. Numbers that go in | | | | |
| box A on one part of the form go in box B on | | | | Drug regulator to withdraw approval of |
| another part of the form. Numbers that go in | | | | Alzheimer's treatment. |
| box B on one part of the form go in box A on | | | | |
| other parts of the form. The form can cause | | | | U. K. Liberal Democrats Raise Taxes to pay |
| enormous amounts of errors. | | | | for Health Care. |
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| They sent out the wrong specifications to | | | | Smokers and obese banned from UK hospitals. |
| printers who then printed millions of wrong | | | | |
| forms. These forms will be rejected when | | | | NHS fund bias against men may cost 2,500 |
| submitted to Medicare or other insurance | | | | lives per year. |
| companies. So what did the government do | | | | |
| next? They didn't know who had the wrong | | | | Tumor patients hit by NHS shortages. |
| forms so they instructed everyone to use the | | | | |
| forms they had and when they were rejected | | | | Heart patients die on waiting lists. |
| they would know they had the wrong form. | | | | |
| Brilliant idea!! | | | | Study finds British hospitals are still |
| | | | smelly, cold and poorly maintained. |
| Who pays the printer for printing the wrong | | | | |
| forms. No one. Just grin and bear another | | | | Discrimination Rampant in British Health |
| government mistake. | | | | Care. |
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| The HIPPA laws mandated the change to be | | | | Other European Countries: |
| April 1, 2007. The government wasn't prepared | | | | |
| so they changed it to May 23 2007, Then | | | | Switzerland hospitals on the verge of a |
| because of the printing mess, they changed it | | | | breakdown. |
| to June 1, 2007. Then it is changed to July | | | | |
| 1, 2007. | | | | Sweden edges toward free-market medicine. |
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| Only the federal government can change | | | | Netherlands socioeconomic inequalities |
| mandated dates. | | | | similar to UK and Scandinavian countries. |
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| In conclusion, If the federal government | | | | Canada: |
| nationalizes our health care systems my | | | | |
| question is | | | | PET scans not covered. |
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| " How many times will they change the date | | | | Physician turns away patients for being 55+. |
| for your heart operation". Probably until | | | | |
| after your dead. | | | | Patients shouldn't wait for more than 8 weeks |
| | | | for cardiac defibrillator. |
| If you think I am kidding or obnoxious or | | | | |
| wrong, checkout the healthcare systems in | | | | Canada inches towards private medicine. |
| England, Canada or any other nationalized | | | | |
| healthcare system. | | | | Hip and knee surgery wait times should be not |
| | | | more than 6 months. |
| Great Britain\\\'s health care system was | | | | |
| created in1948. It's first year operating | | | | Surgery backlog hits 5,500 at kids hospital. |
| costs were 52 million pounds higher than | | | | |
| estimated. That's over 100 million US dollars | | | | Access to specialists difficult. |
| in 1948 equal to about 50 billion in | | | | |
| today\\\'s dollars. That\\\'s for a much | | | | Plus many more. |
| smaller country than the United States. | | | | |
| | | | You make your own decision. Do you really |
| There are many articles about the poor | | | | want the socialized medicine that Hillary |
| quality of England\\\'s socialized medicine. | | | | wants? |