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To: Katelew who wrote (73255)

5/24/2018 7:33:58 PM

From: koan

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She is lucky she had health insurance. What do you think would have happened to her without it??

Why Obamacare was good and why we need universal health care like the rest of civilization.

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<<She is lucky she was in this country and in a good hospital when it happened.>>

To: Katelew who wrote (73255)	5/24/2018 8:11:44 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 358804

First, I’m really glad your daughter made it through her serious illness. In Arkansas health care: I just had robotic surgery at UAMS, one of two surgical robots in the state. Scheduled at 5am, didn’t get in until 2pm, they put me to sleep and it took another hour to finish sterilizing the robot. It was getting dark before my 3 hour surgery was done. The case ahead of me was an emergency surgery on a young girl who normally would have been treated at Children’s. I love the UAMS facility but Medicare/Medicaid has killed it. Two weeks ago they had to shut down the cardiac surgical unit because the last surgeon left. Pay was something like 225k. Across the street at Children’s some make close to 2 million. The Heart Hospital has taken all the nongovernment business and today, if you are an adult in Arkansas without commercial insurance, you’d better haul ass to someplace where they’ll work cheap. It is pitiful. We have great doctors whose hands are tied by government programs. I think we will be moving soon, not because of health care, but to be closer to our kids. But the deterioration in health care here is a really sad thing to have watched. (I have no idea how JRMC in Pine Bluff is alive. There is almost no commercial insurance there. I predict they’ll go broke or at least downsize a lot over the next ten years. My friend who was a cardiac surgeon there moved his practice to North Arkansas and just went into general surgery).

To: Katelew who wrote (73255)	5/24/2018 11:15:04 PM
From: Sam	Respond to of 358804

My mother was 93 when it happened, she had a DNR, and she died within a few hours of being in the hospital. I don't think that they diagnosed the sepsis in time and she had multiple organ failure. They told us that she was sleeping when she died (they gave her some sort of sedative because she had been up all night, partly because of the inefficiency of the ER the CC home had taken her to) and they claimed that she said she felt fine before going to sleep. It was all surreal. Fortunately, I had seen her about a week before then and my sisters had been there fairly recently as well.