[Rhodes22-list] Brad, a description of Bob and Stan's minimal health care... (Political)

[Herb Parsons]

Robert,

"hardly conducive to credibility, but indicative of the quality of your 
case"

PULEASE.

Have you heard Hillary/Chelsea's poor neglected and denied health care 
mom story? Are you as "skeptical" of their case?

BTW, you don't get to request omission from the "diatribes", but then 
jump right into the fray all in the same post. Either play or walk, but 
don't try to do both.

Robert Skinner wrote:
> Ed,
>
> Please leave my name out of your diatribes.
>
> I notice that the body of your message was 
> penned by one "Cartoon Nazi" -- hardly 
> conducive to credibility, but indicative of 
> the quality of your case.
>
> /Robert
>
>
> Tootle wrote:
>   
>> Brad, I accidentially found a description of Bob and Stan's minimal Federal
>> Health Care.  You know what they a call catch all, etc.
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Socialism Killed My Parents
>>
>> I am originally from Canada. I became a US resident in 1985. My parents who
>> lived in Montreal, died recently, both killed by the Canadian health care
>> system. My father had a heart attack but the ambulance took 90 minutes to
>> get him to a hospital. Why? The ambulance driver took him to the âEURoewrongâEUR?
>> emergency room twice, and, though they could have treated him, they sent my
>> dad away both times. (he was in the wrong âEURoeregionâEUR? or something, as best my
>> mother could recall). He lived another ten days in an Intensive Care Unit at
>> Montreal General, that in August was stiflingly hot; there were two air
>> conditioners (circa 1975) wedged into open windows to cool an ICU with 10 or
>> so, gravely ill patients. It was humid and unbearable. Average temperature
>> on my fatherâEUR^(TM)s final days on earth inside the ICU; 90 - 95 degrees F.
>>
>> My mother noticed a lump in her breast and was told three times by her
>> oncologist (one of only three in all of Montreal, a city of two million
>> people) that it was âEURoenothingâEUR?. She could NOT get a second opinion and,
>> sensing the worst, she kept going back to the same doctor in each of the six
>> month interval between âEURoeavailableâEUR? appointments. Finally on her fourth visit
>> (two years later) he realized there âEURoecould be a problemâEUR?. Once diagnosed, my
>> mother got chemo almost right away but had to wait six weeks for radiation
>> as there was some âEURoeproblemâEUR?. That was the explanation. No questions allowed.
>>
>> I was summoned to Montreal only a few days before my fatherâEUR^(TM)s death. But I
>> spent a full (and wonderful) year with my mother in Montreal before she
>> died. The last time I accompanied her to her oncologist (at the Royal
>> Victoria Hospital), he presented us with an x-ray that was dotted with dark
>> spots. âEURoe The cancer has spread into your bones and lungsâEUR? he said
>> matter-of-factly. The news took our breath away, as we were hoping the chemo
>> and radiation would buy her a few more years at least. Bravely composing
>> herself, my mother asked âEURoeWhat are we going to do?âEUR? HereâEUR^(TM)s what the 30
>> something piss-ant doctor said to my mother. âEURoeMrs. Rezyka, you are 79 years
>> old, youâEUR^(TM)ve had a full life. What do expect from us?
>>
>> I should have smashed his teeth down his throat right there and then, but I
>> could not. Incurring his wrath could cost my mother additional suffering and
>> I, by then, knew that all too well.
>>
>> My mother told me this when I first arrived home (one year before her death)
>> âEURoeI have to be nice to these people; they think IâEUR^(TM)ve lived long enough as it
>> is, and if they donâEUR^(TM)t like me, they wonâEUR^(TM)t help meâEUR?. She always brought gifts
>> to the 20 something punk kid that booked her chemo sessions because she knew
>> that he could easily derail her treatment. My mother was a strong and proud
>> woman and it sickened me to see her kowtow to these junior bureaucrats and
>> doctors whom, she feared, considered her too old to be worthy of attention.
>>
>> You still want a Canadian style health care system here?
>>
>> Canada has taken tort reform down to itâEUR^(TM)s Socialist absurdity. You cannot
>> sue the Canadian government at all, for any reason. Thus the treatment of my
>> mother and father stands; immune from consequence or criticism. The system
>> is rife with cronyism, ageism, arrogance, and corruption.
>> As a sidelight here; both my parents quit smoking in 1980. But on their
>> death certificates the âEURoesmoking related deathâEUR? check-box is ticked. I have a
>> feeling that in Canada all smokers, present or past, die of âEURoesmoking
>> relatedâEUR? illness, even if run over by a bus. Also, my fatherâEUR^(TM)s date of birth
>> was wrong, making him seven years older than he actually was when he died.
>> IâEUR^(TM)m certain Canada cooks its longevity statistics to hide its failures from
>> the public and the world.
>>
>> The once elite Canadian health care system is now well below the standard of
>> our free County system. The lowly American without health insurance now gets
>> better health care than every Canadian.
>>
>> ThatâEUR^(TM)s the truth.
>>
>> You still want a Canadian style health care system here?
>>
>> Posted to Internet by :  Cartoon Nazi
>> Age: 39
>> Gender: Male
>>
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