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| Mason | Aug 3 2010, 04:09 PM Post #1 |
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. Hard to believe we had a group of politically active people pushing this so hard on us in this country. Shame on the AMA, AARP, and others! Canadian Health Care Tragedy - A look into the Future. Losing her first baby was devastating enough but having to do it in a crowded waiting room is what angered Christine Handrahan the most. The 29-year-old Peakes woman was nine weeks pregnant when on July 12 she started bleeding. Fearing the worst, Handrahan and her husband, Michael, headed to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital’s new emergency room. There she waited more than three hours, blood seeping out of her jeans, tears rolling down her face as she feared she was losing her baby — or that she might be bleeding to death. Still, she waited and waited. More than three hours passed before Michael had enough. Only one patient had gone through the big glass doors to see a doctor so he knew the wait was going to be extensive. Michael helped his wife out of a wheelchair into his truck and they made the 45-minute drive to Prince County Hospital in Summerside. There she was immediately rushed into the hospital’s emergency room where the mother-to-be was told that she had a miscarriage. “What bothered me the most was the fact that I had to sit in public going through a miscarriage — in public,” Handrahan said. Hospital , Charlottetown hospital , Summerside “It’s emotional. It’s such an emotional time for anybody. We tried for a couple of years to conceive a child and then to lose it. It was horrifying.” Handrahan says nobody at the hospital showed her any compassion. “They could have given me a room to go in. Not necessarily a room with a bed. Even if it had been their TV room, or their lunchroom, or their closet. That waiting room was jam packed full of people. “Somebody should have cared enough to say ‘Oh my goodness, you’re going through a miscarriage, do you need some quiet time?’ I was fighting my tears. I wanted a place to go cry.” Officials at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital have launched a full investigation into what happened to Handrahan. Rick Adams, the executive director of the hospital, cancelled an afternoon of meetings to talk to the Handrahans and to offer an apology. Adams is on holidays this week, but Dr. Rosemary Henderson, the acting executive director, confirms an investigation is underway. The medical director, the nurse manager and a quality and risk management team will lead the investigation. “The sort of things we’re looking at is, was she triaged appropriately?” said Henderson. “And whether or not she was seen in a reasonable time frame and there are certain guidelines . . . and I won’t pussy foot around it we do have trouble meeting those guidelines at times.” Henderson would not answer the question about whether it was appropriate for Handrahan to have her miscarriage in the hospital’s waiting room. That, she said, will have to wait until the investigation is complete. Health Minister Carolyn Bertram maintains safety is not being compromised at the Charlottetown hospital. “I certainly do not want to talk about an individual case but I certainly feel for a case such as this, . . . but our officials are investigating this matter,” said Bertram. Handrahan, who works at a vet clinic, said she has never seen an animal being treated like she was treated at the province’s largest referral hospital. She came forward with her story in hopes nobody will ever have to go through what she went through again. Her husband, Michael, 31, agrees. He said he went to the nurse’s station twice, pleading with them to see his wife. “The first time, she said ‘we’re very busy’ and they’d get to her as soon as possible,” Michael said. “I knew we were going to have to wait. But what pissed me off is they didn’t take her in when we got there, clean her up, and see what was going on.” Patients the Handrahans talked to while they were at the emergency department said they had waited 12 to14 hours. Handrahan said she remains angry at the hospital and traumatized by the whole situation. If she ever needs medical attention in the future, Handrahan said she will go to Summerside. She did receive an apology from one of the nurses in the emergency department but it was too little too late, she said. “She came over and she apologized to me, and she said ‘I just wanted to tell you that it’s not that we don’t care,’” Handrahan recounts. “I remember telling her that I realized tonight how cruel this world really is.” http://tinyurl.com/38tmp9a . Edited by Mason, Aug 3 2010, 04:12 PM.
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| Mason | Aug 3 2010, 04:21 PM Post #2 |
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. The Dem insiders are finding out that Obamacare is a frightening Frankenstein that is next to impossible to administer - so they put one woman in charge. A woman that couldn't see that her family paid their Tax debts for 14 years or something crazy. She can't take care of the family taxes - so they give her Obamacare! Crazy! The Obamacare Disaster By Kevin Hassett - Aug 1, 2010 6:00 One of the more illuminating remarks during the health-care debate in Congress came when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told an audience that Democrats would “pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it, away from the fog of controversy.” That remark captured the truth that, while many Americans have a vague sense that something bad is happening to their health care, few if any understand exactly what the law does. To fill this vacuum, Representative Kevin Brady of Texas, the top House Republican on the Joint Economic Committee, asked his staff to prepare a study of the law, including a flow chart that illustrates how the major provisions will work. The result, made public July 28, provides citizens with a preview of the impact the health-care overhaul will have on their lives. It’s a terrifying road map that shows Democrats have launched America on the most reckless policy experiment in its history, the economic equivalent of the Bay of Pigs invasion. Before discussing what the law means for you, we have to look at what it does to government. That’s where the chart comes in handy. It includes the new fees, bureaucracies and programs and connects them into an organizational chart that accounts for the existing structure. It’s so carefully documented that a line connecting two structures cites the legislative language that created the link. Ornate System This clearly is a candidate for most disorganized organizational chart ever. It shows that the health system is complex, yes, but also ornate. The new law creates 68 grant programs, 47 bureaucratic entities, 29 demonstration or pilot programs, six regulatory systems, six compliance standards and two entitlements. Getting that massive enterprise up and running will be next to impossible. So Democrats streamlined the process by granting Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius the authority to make judgments that can’t be challenged either administratively or through the courts. This monarchical protection from challenges is extended as well to the development of new patient-care models under Obama’s controversial recess appointment, Donald Berwick, whom Republicans are calling the rationer-in-chief. Berwick will run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, where he can experiment with ways to use administrative fiat to move our system toward the socialized medicine of Europe, which he has at times embraced. Closer to Home A sprawling, complex bureaucracy has been set up that will have almost absolute power to dictate terms for participating in the health-care system. That’s what the law does to government. What it does to you is worse. Based on the administration’s own numbers, as many as 117 million people might have to change their health plans by 2013 as their employer-provided coverage loses its grandfathered status and becomes subject to the new Obamacare mandates. Those mandates also might make your health care more expensive. The Congressional Budget Office predicts that premiums for a small number of families who buy their insurance privately will rise by as much as $2,100. The central Obamacare mechanism for increasing insurance coverage is an expansion of the Medicaid program. Of the 30 million new people covered, 16 million will be enrolled in Medicaid. And you could end up in the program whether you want it or not. The bill states that people who apply for coverage through the new exchanges or who apply for premium-subsidy credits will automatically be enrolled in Medicaid if they qualify. Hurting the Elderly To pay for this expansion, the bill takes $529 billion from Medicare, with roughly 39 percent of the cut coming from the Medicare Advantage program. This represents a large transfer of resources, sacrificing the care of the elderly in order to increase the Medicaid rolls. For all this supposed reform, you, the American taxpayer, can expect a bill to the tune of $569 billion. Front and center among the new taxes is the 40 percent excise tax on those lucky people with so-called Cadillac health plans. The higher insurance costs that are driven by the government mandates will push many more ordinary plans into Cadillac territory. If the idea of taxing people with coverage deemed too good doesn’t bother you, maybe the new 3.8 percent tax on investment income will. That will apply even to a small number of home sales, those that generate $250,000 in profit for an individual or $500,000 for a married couple. In vivid color and detail, Congressman Brady’s chart captures the huge expansion of government coming under Obamacare. Harder to show on paper is the pain it will cause. (Kevin Hassett, director of economic-policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, is a Bloomberg News columnist. He was an adviser to Republican Senator John McCain in the 2008 presidential election. The opinions expressed are his own.) http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-02/obamacare-only-looks-worse-upon-further-review-kevin-hassett.html Credit: Drudge . |
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| retiredLEO | Aug 3 2010, 04:55 PM Post #3 |
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I can only say God Help Us, once this thing goes into effect, we are doomed as a country. DC can control our budger, our borders, social security, etc. What makes them think they can run this mess? We have a POTUS, that can't produce any school records, from elementry school to college, he can't produce a valid birth certificate, is his birthday really tomorrow? If he maintains control of congress and the senate and gets re-elected in 2012, the United States will be a third world, balkinized, country by 2016. |
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| Deleted User | Aug 3 2010, 05:41 PM Post #4 |
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There is no way to make amends for this unspeakable lack of duty by the medical community. I simply have to ask - were this scenario played out in an American hospital and an illegal was in the same distress that this young mother-to-be found herself in, what would be the outcome? The Obama Administeration has decided that the United States will become a third world nation in every way on his watch. We are turning away bright and capable European immigrants in favor of the under educated hired hands that come to us from the south all in the name of power. We are entering a time of great revolution in this country unless Americans wake up. |
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| Mason | Aug 3 2010, 05:45 PM Post #5 |
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. I think she got her apology. I think that's about all they plan on doing for her. |
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| Acc Esq | Aug 3 2010, 05:45 PM Post #6 |
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The revolution may come when Americans wake up. |
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| retiredLEO | Aug 3 2010, 07:06 PM Post #7 |
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The problem is that the leader of this revolution is Obama. Like I have already stated 80% of the country is now being ruled by 20% of the country, unfortunately for all of us Obama is in the 20%. |
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