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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Carragher who wrote (11684)	11/23/2009 10:37:59 AM
From: i-node	Respond to of 42652

one example of extreme was a pap test done on woman in her late years, dying.. to me that is abuse of the facility and nothing to do with the medical care in the last few weeks. This was shocking, but I'll tell you this much. Most private insurance companies would NOT have let that go -- a PAP on someone who is in ICU and dying from multiple organ failures? I don't think so. Yet, Medicare apparently had no problem paying for it. Bizarre. I thought it was more an indictment of the providers than it was of the health care system. Interestingly, the hospital bore the same name as the "study" RW posted here last week as evidence of how bad American health care is (RWJ). >>> Caregivers who take care of loved ones at home with or without hospice assistance were never mentioned while watching. I started to think, in my life I've never seen some of the things they talked about. My dad died in ICU, but he was there less than a day -- at the time, they couldn't do much for him, and I know that has changed a lot. Nobody ever suggested to me that my mom ought to spend her final days in ICU (in fact, she died during a severe ice storm and just almost couldn't them get to admit her because they said, "there is nothing we can do for her here"; I would have to be restrained from whipping that doctor's ass were I to see him again today). I've seen plenty of old people die and never one other than my dad (heart attack) in ICU at $10,000/day.