You know Smithee, I wish I could figure Obama out...Didn't know his grandmother needed a hip replacement. When did he know that she needed one? Only right before she died, or had he ignored it for several years? I CAN NOT even imagine what would make any person say such a thing....
Honestly, I think Obama made that up....If she had Alzenheimers, I doubt any Doctor would do a hip replacement if for no other reason, she wouldn't remember to take the pain meds necessary for rehab and learning how to walk again. People have to take the pain meds about 30 min before the therapy, or they can't stand the pain of therapy..... My own Mom had that problem with her knee....She was trying to be 'tough', and said she didn't need the meds. She didn't at that second. But she couldn't do the PT exercises because of the pain.
Thank the Kennedy brothers in Oct of 1963 and a decade later the ACLU for signing, then messing with the "DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION" Bill of 1963.... Sometime ago, there were long articles and pictures of the signing....Don't know if Google took them off or not.
They wanted to have their mentally ill sister Rosemary home and not institutionalized so they changed the entire complexion of care...Home care funding went up, and hospital funding went down. Congress and the Kennedy's forgot totally that the mentally ill who were in hospitals for their illness, often didn't have homes to go to when they were let out of the hospitals. Thus, we have many people who need help out on the streets with no help.
Anyhow, shame on Obama. If she wasn't ill with dementia, etc, then it would be her business if she wanted a hip replacement or not. If she was ill with dementia or something else quite serious, then shame on the Doctors for suggesting it was alright to put her through even more pain....
"I don’t know how much that hip replacement cost… (I don’t feel) society making those decisions to give my grandmother, or everybody else’s aging grandparents or parents, a hip replacement when they’re terminally ill is a sustainable model."
"I mean, the chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80 percent of the total health care bill." |
