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