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Posted By bubba2 1 year, 7 months ago in StyleLet's consider a hypothetical cardiac patient: Male, 67 years old, high-stress job, and a history of serious heart problems, about to change jobs. He's had 4 major heart attacks. He's had a quadruple bypass. He would be uninsurable for having a preexisting condition. But this case isn't hypothetical: The patient is Dick Cheney.
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bubba21 year, 7 months ago
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FTA:
Dick Cheney can have the choice of doctors. He can go to any hospital. He can have excellent standard of care. And he's alive today because of it. And there are a lot of people who aren't.
Rose Ann DeMoro is executive director of the CNA. Under her leadership, the union launched an ad campaign that's designed to shock: It claims that if Cheney were just a regular American, he'd probably be dead by now.
What the nurses are saying is, there shouldn't be a double standard. There should be an excellence in care that applies to all people. We, as the public, pay for Dick Cheney's care. Why is the government not providing the same type of care to all Americans?
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bubba21 year, 7 months ago
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Actually, health care in the United States is NOT "the best in the world".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_the...
he World Health Organization in 2000 ranked the U.S. health care system first in both responsiveness and expenditure, but 37th in overall performance and 72nd by overall level of health (among 191 member nations included in the study). The WHO study has been criticized both for its methodology and for a lack of correlation with user satisfaction ratings.
The CIA World Factbook ranked the United States 41st in the world for lowest infant mortality rate and 45th for highest total life expectancy. A recent study found that between 1997 and 2003, preventable deaths declined more slowly in the United States than in 18 other industrialized nations.
The U.S. is the only wealthy, industrialized nation that does not have a universal health care system.
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bubba21 year, 7 months ago
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Americans without health insurance coverage at some time during 2006 totaled about 16% of the population, or 47 million people.
Health insurance costs are rising faster than wages or inflation, and "medical causes" were cited by about half of bankruptcy filers in the United States in 2001.
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bubba21 year, 7 months ago
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Cheney should not be treated any differently for health care than anyone else in this country. I don't care WHO he is - it is elitism to make the excuse that he is "more important".
Here is a news bulletin for you - NO one is INDISPENSABLE.
Cheney is dishonest and is a crook, but I don't wish him any ill will - but if something happened to him right now that incapacitated him and kept him from "carrying out his duties", the country would actually continue to run without him.
Every American should NOT have to "be ivy league educated and drive Lamborghinis" in order to 'qualify for health care'.
In other words, being able to get health care should NOT be based on class or income level.
Maybe if you were one of the 47 million people in this country that had NO health insurance and could not afford to get medical care, you might be a little more concerned.
As it is, your compassion for your fellow citizens is pretty underwhelming.
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TrueProgressive1 year, 7 months ago
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Hey Bubba, take it easy on Locky. He's a pure regressive, and in pureregressiveworld, a.k.a., rightwingworld, greed is good, very, very good. It's every person for themselves, unless, of course, one happens to be well connected, like the Bushes or the Cheneys, for example. In Locky's world, the ethic is, "I got mine, all the rest of you, go f**k yourselves. It's amazing how guys like Locky are so naive about how much of the rest of the world lives. "EVERYBODY has healthcare. You may scoff at the emergency room, but it's there if anybody should need it." This joker probably has sufficient health care benefits so that the ER isn't his first and only access to medical treatment. This enables him to "blow off" the life experiences of millions of others less fortunate than he, health care wise. It's exactly like the chickenhawks who prosecute the Iraqi war. They're all for war, death and destruction, so long as someone else is doing the fighting and dying.
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