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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (797248)	7/26/2014 6:40:43 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) of 1579681

Kathy Shaidle on her lupus: ........ In socialized medicine, shortages aren’t bugs, they’re features. The system can only “work” if care is parceled out slowly and stingily, so that – frankly – enough sick people will conveniently die, thereby freeing up spots on the always-lengthy waiting list. Picture a Ponzi scheme, but with patients instead of investors. My cat can get an MRI faster than I can. I was getting sicker and sicker, but had to wait months between appointments and bloodwork, so I could get yet another tweaked pharmaceutical regimen (that still didn’t help.) I was only hospitalized when I was on death’s door, and finally received the high-dose prednisone treatment that turned me around. Even then, my rheumatologist had to fight to get me a bed. Having said all that: Lupus never cost me a nickel out of pocket. My examinations, treatment and drugs were all covered by some government program or other. Buying private health insurance or paying for your own treatment is – mostly — illegal in Canada, so I had no option . Canada’s wealthy and privileged do, of course, and exercise said options regularly. So while on principle I objected to receiving “free” healthcare (and then going on government disability), my only other choice would have been to continue to endure searing, incapacitating pain and, I suppose, eventually die either by lupus or by my own hand. I believe in a mixed private/public health care system. I did before I got sick and believe it now. .......... http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2014/07/26/3-things-getting-lupus-taught-me/?singlepage=true

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