Pelosi Promises to Make Kennedy’s Health Care Dream a Reality
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And this is what the dream would bring us:
Man collapses with ruptured appendix… three weeks after NHS doctors ‘took it out’
After weeks of excruciating pain, Mark Wattson was understandably relieved to have his appendix taken out.
Doctors told him the operation was a success and he was sent home.
But only a month later the 35-year-old collapsed in agony and had to be taken back to Great Western Hospital in Swindon by ambulance.
To his shock, surgeons from the same team told him that not only was his appendix still inside him, but it had ruptured – a potentially fatal complication.
In a second operation it was finally removed, leaving Mr Wattson fearing another organ might have been taken out during the first procedure.
And there isn’t a bloody thing he can do about it – and the system, being government-run, simply will not care about this or 10,000 other life-threatening/taking screw ups. When government runs the health care show, the patients are last on the list of concerns. Why? Because governments are interested in power, retaining power, increasing power and, of course, the quiet life – there’s no upside for government to do a good job for the schmucks who make up the general public. Heck, you start spending money on providing services for the people, and there won’t be enough money for juicy raises for the unions, or fat pensions for the officials…
I’m telling ya, people, if Kennedy’s dream becomes a reality, it will be our nightmare.
UPDATE: And there’s more:
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29 Responses to “Pelosi Promises to Make Kennedy’s Health Care Dream a Reality”
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Mark
Please tell us that you are aware that medical mistakes happen no matter what plan is in operation.
Have you investigated the number of medical errors that have taken place under your present system?
I thought Pelosi promised to run the most ethical, and transparent House in the history of that body.
“I intend to lead the most honest, the most open and the most ethical Congress in history”. – Nancy Pelosi November 8, 2006
Maybe she should try and keep that one first.
CO,
Of course they do – but under a socialized system, there’s nothing the people can do about it.
under a socialized system, there’s nothing the people can do about it…Mark
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It’s obvious you haven’t done your research, Mark.
CO, I doubt that when a medical mistake is made under a government controled health care system that you can sue for any valid reason. If you can you probably have a snowballs chance in Hell of winning, even if you have a totally valid claim that would normally win in court.
fartotheright says:
August 26th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
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FYI:-
http://www.lawmedmal.ca/medical_malpractice_law.htm
“If you can you probably have a snowballs chance in Hell of winning”
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that sums it up quite nicely
Mark, my father died of a massive cerebral hemmorhage after a successful routine angioplasty. He was in a hospital with an excellent reputation for cardiac care. In going through the records afterward my mother (a lifelong RN) and I discovered that his heparin drip had not been adjusted for the last nearly 24 hours of his life and that for most of that time his PTT (blood clotting times) had been off the chart.
It was a clearcut case of negligence in our view. My family felt if there were no accountability for what had happened the same scenario could occur with other patients. But when I consulted with my father’s personal physician (not attending at the hospital) and then with several law firms about the possibility of litigation I learned how quickly and tightly the medical community circles the wagons under threat. I was told if his treatment had been standard practice (it was), regardless the lack of any adjustment to his dosage we would likely lose a lawsuit.
Although the facts were not in doubt we realized a legal fight would be long and ugly, and in our view it was not worth the stress and change it would put us through. And nothing would bring my father back. We let it go, and I have sometimes wondered if it was the right decision. Legal remedies for malpractice are already prohibitively difficult for any person of average means to pursue, and further legislation to limit lawsuits or damages only make the prospect more daunting.
So “the system,” even though it is privately run, already doesn’t care about lethal screw ups. They care about maintaining the status quo – the power remains in the hands of wealthy medical insitutions, pharmaceutical corporations, insurance companies and their minions. How many people die unnecessarily each year, and their cases swept aside simply because the system of private medicine is already so powerful and intimidating people don’t even attempt to challenge it?
I have started a campaign through my trusted friends to encourage a boycot of San Francisco until the citizens dump Pelosi in 2010. The nation is suffering her quest for power because her district in San Francisco gave her the opportunity. Obama thinks he is the emperor, but Pelosi controls the emperor’s court. The nation will not truly begin recovery until we force the removal of princess Pelosi.
Is Piglosi gonna create another Wellstone moment? I can hear it now: “Let’s pass this for Teddy! Let’s pass this for Teddy!”
What a bunch of crap…
We can only hope. I’ll send her a roll of toilet paper for her face.
I don’t. I can thank Obama’s take over GM for that. You? Another democrat lie from the socialist left.
Won’t it be poetic justice if the healthcare bill is named after Kennedy, and the loss of his vote prevents it from passing?
retired
it is funny kennedydrunk championed a Mass. law change, when they thought sKerry was to be elected,
and took the right of the governor (then Romney) to appointing a replacement for his senate seat.
now right up to the end, he was attempting to re change the law so the now democRAT governor could pick his replacement…class act huh?
The only record this guy should have had during the last 40 years was a felony murder/manslaughter conviction, and prison time in a cell with le-roy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwGLdYBm1bY
Nothing like a link to the Daily Mail to prove your point Mark.
bongo,
Can’t refute the message, attack the messenger. Are you saying there is no shortage of maternity beds in Great Britain?
dennis,
It is terrible what happened to your father – but its not like they went in for a particular organ and didn’t take it out.
Or they may have cut off the worng limb, which happens over 1,000 times a year in the US.
kmg,
Source?
You get a D for common sense, Mark – and forget about sensitivity. You were talking about “life-threatening screwups” and the mistake caused my father’s death.
My family would much rather have my dad minus a limb or body part, but still alive.
dennis,
Mistakes there always will be – I could cite the case of my mother-in-law, for instance, as a case of serial screw ups by medical professionals which very likely cut her life short by many months, perhaps by years. But as Medicare was cutting the checks and calling the shots, such a thing actually tends to indict government-run health care, again, outside of the particular errors various people made.
But the point being made here – and in story after story – is that the leftist fantasy that some how, some way, a government-run system will be more sensitive and caring to the patients is absurd.
Mark,
Using four separate databases including the federal National Practitioner Data Bank, a repository of malpractice payments and disciplinary actions, physicians Samuel C. Seiden and Paul Barach estimate that wrong-site surgery occurs between 1,300 and 2,700 times a year in the United States.
kmg,
Interesting – but the Joint Commission – cited in your link – says it a bit different:
10 per month is 120 per year – or a bit less than 10% or your link’s low-end estimate. This is probably a function of someone being dumb enough to go to a repository of malpractice payments for data.
Sorry, Mark, but my anecdotal evidence beats your anecdotal evidence. You provided an anecdote in which a physician did not do his job properly. I provided one that points to a systematic bloodthirstiness in our system. You have an error; I have a murder confession.
Sergei,
The study I cited was not done by the Joint Commission. The Joint Commision’s statistics come from from their self-reporting database. Regardless, the problem is not unique to the NHS.
dream on serge…no matter how hard you argue…your shxx still stinks…
Despite his famous name, Kennedy had a humble beginning – and not just because he emerged from the shadow of his more famous brothers. His first major achievement was to be thrown out of Harvard University for cheating on a Spanish exam. And perhaps his most notorious political setback took place early in his career, far from the Senate floor.
This is the characture of the man that spent 47 years in Congress.
Well, Mark? Still no response? Surely you don’t think that Duke’s carefully thought out and well reasoned response to my post was sufficient.
What do you (not Duke, you) have to say about Dr. Pino’s testimony and the Nixon tape?