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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (778824)4/6/2014 11:14:45 PM
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>> And you think we have the best healthcare system in the world????

Of course. Well we DID have. I am not convinced we do post-Obamacare. That isn't to say that it isn't a bureaucracy or that problems never occur. But my mom had survived metastatic cancer for eight years and had received some of the best care imaginable, in a small city in a rural state, and she might well have lived longer if she hadn't just told the doctor she didn't want further treatment. "When I came to you I said I wanted to live another five years, you got be way past that."

>> That ER physician, I think, could have sent him to the dialysis center which was a short ride away..

I wasn't there and have no idea what the medical circumstances were. And certainly we don't know anything at all about the payment arrangements to suggest the story is other than factual. But there is a vast difference between Part A and Part B Medicare and the circumstances under which various procedures are covered and the types of facilities each will reimburse for. Hospital admissions personnel are usually well-trained as to what procedures can and cannot be performed on an inpatient, outpatient, or emergency care basis.

>> But it remains very strange that that story was picked up by no one except the American Spectator.....

No it doesn't. Hell, there are very few in the media who would report anything negative about Obamcare at this point. And in a week where Ms. Boonstra was receiving letters hoping she dies, I would think it might have a chilling effect on someone's willingness to discuss their own case with the media.

The liberal media is not going to condemn Obamacare unless LOTS of people are dying.
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