| Eeyore27 |
| (Old Hand) |
| 09/20/04 02:52 AM |
 Re: Should the uninsured lay down and die?!
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Well it is unfortunate that your friend had to cheat the system to get her entitlements. That however means that she IS NOT entitled to what she is receiving from us taxpayers. The good news is that our current President has a plan to curve the rising cost of health care. He is planning to place a cap on all of the malpractice lawsuits (frivolous or not). This is the main reason for all of the skyrocketing health care. Doctors & Pharmaceutical manufactures also have their insurance skyrocketing because of this. Well guess who pays for this? You & I do. You want medical insurance? Great, we all do, however the consumer & or taxpayer pays for it all in this country. When their cost rise then it is just passed down to us. It is just that simple.
IF ANYONE DOES NOT BELIEVE THIS IS TRUE: then I suggest you pick up your local yellow pages & add up all the doctors, clinics & hospitals that there are in the yellow pages and compare to how many Attorneys/Law firms that are there.
I live in a small community we have less than 1/2 of a page of doctors/clinics/hospitals compared to 8 pages of Attorneys/Law Firms.
This seems a little ridiculous to me. Every single doctor needs patients to stay in business, as well as all Attorneys need a lawsuit to survive. How can we have all of these lawsuits in this country? That is why you’re Automobile; Homeowners & health insurance is always rising. Most, (about 98%) of all lawsuits settle out of court otherwise we would need a Court House on the good majority of the street corners in most of our larger cities as well.
This is where the problem is & I suggest we write our local representatives about these lawyers sewing everybody for every reason that they can. They can help stop these rising costs from frivolous lawsuits if they were to concentrate on it. Now if we were to put a trial lawyer into the vice presidents chair that would only compound the rising cost of health care.
Fortunately that will not happen in this country this time around, because the American Voter will not allow it.
STOP RISING HEATH CARE BY STOPPING THE FRIVOLOUS LAW SUITS!
Not yelling, just want you to see it.
fromabove,
Do you honestly think that a $250,000.00 malpractice suit cap is what this country needs in order to get it's healthcare system back on track? There are many more reasons why the system itself is falling apart than just the medical malpractice suits alone.
If you really think that this is the solution, think of Jesica Santillan's family, who went in for an organ transplant last year and wound up with organs with the wrong blood and tissue type and died as a result of improper medical practices.
I'm sorry if I sound cold hearted by making a statement like this, but no, I don't feel one bit sorry for Dr. Mercedes Benz for screwing up an operation and then trying to cover it up, and eventually blaming the hospital staff that was working underneath him for making a "mistake" like that.
When someone's life is concerned, they can't afford to make "mistakes". Did they or did they not take the Hippocratic oath for that reason?? Is there a line in there that says "And if I should kill or maim somebody for any reason, I promise to try to keep the media away...and if that doesn't work, then I promise to blame somebody else."?
I'm sorry for sounding so mean spirited in my comments, since you did make some valid points in your post, but when you've been the victim of poor medicine and know people personally who are affected by it because they or a loved one were victims of it, as well, it's kind of hard to be objective and/or excited that our wonderful president is putting caps medical malpractice suits in an attempt to "save" the industry. If you really want to know what my opinion is on that particular "solution" is, it just sounds like one more cover up in a series of cover ups.
Here's my take on it: It's no secret, Dubya's in bed with Big Pharma. And why wouldn't he be? There sure is a lot of money to be made, and what better way to do it than to shut out the other countries and proclaim that our pharmaceutical companies are the best in the entire world? Why shouldn't you be able to go to your family doctor and say "Well, since you know my medical history as well as I do, you obviously know that this medication was working and effective for me, so why fix what isn't broken?" Why bother? So they can pretty much just laugh in your face and send you home with a bag of samples and a prescription for the next guinea pig experiment? And that's even assuming that you even still have a family practitioner or specialist, depending on whether or not you still have health insurance.
That's my experience, as well as the experience of a lot of other great people here on the board. We're sick of it!! So sick that we're ordering medications online because we don't have the option to request a certain medication, or even get suitable health care, for that matter!! I probably should shut up right now because I'm obviously too emotionally involved in this already, but I have seen through my own two eyes what kind of horror goes on in the medical field regarding medical malpractice.
I've seen my boyfriend's grandfather go into the hospital with pneumonia and be carried out in a body bag because somebody at the hospital he had the misfortune of staying in forgot where they kept the Lysol and he winded up dying of a staph infection. I've seen my (at the time) 23 year old girlfriend go through agonizing pain for months after having a c-section, only to find out after a trip to the ER that some idiot forgot to take a pair of hemostat clamps out of her after they put her organs back into her body and closed her up. I've seen a former coworker have to deal with the aftermath of her mother going into a hospital to have a leg amputated due to gangrene from diabetes, only to find out after her mother had woken up that they had removed the wrong leg. And that's not even going into how my mother almost died 6 years ago due to a misdiagnosis during a hospital stay, so forgive me if I seem biased about the subject.
And what really angers me about all of this, not only did I find out that my old quack antidepressant doctor (incidentally the same doctor that misdiagnosed my back condition 3 years ago and gave me cortisone shots that I still get sharp pain that runs down my legs from the injection sites) is an admitted speed and opiate user. You all know by now that my sister who is a nurse is addicted to painkillers, so I don't need to explain that one any further, and the many, many other friends that I have in the medical field that are habitual drug users, I have to wonder if any of this medical malpractice may have something to do with the fact that these people are, God forbid high while they're practicing medicine!!
I need to just shut up now because if I go any further, I'm probably going to step on some toes, and it's not really in my nature to cause trouble, especially on a board that I love and admire, for the most part. I am sorry if I offended anyone, honestly, it wasn't my intention. I'm just too emotionally involved in the topic to go any further with it.
Take care & accept my apologies if I offended anyone, please.
Eeyore
