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

[Robert Skinner]

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 “wrong”
> emergency room twice, and, though they could have treated him, they sent my
> dad away both times. (he was in the wrong “region” 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 father’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 “nothing”. 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 “available” appointments. Finally on her fourth visit
> (two years later) he realized there “could be a problem”. Once diagnosed, my
> mother got chemo almost right away but had to wait six weeks for radiation
> as there was some “problem”. That was the explanation. No questions allowed.
> 
> I was summoned to Montreal only a few days before my father’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. “ The cancer has spread into your bones and lungs” 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 “What are we going to do?” Here’s what the 30
> something piss-ant doctor said to my mother. “Mrs. Rezyka, you are 79 years
> old, you’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)
> “I have to be nice to these people; they think I’ve lived long enough as it
> is, and if they don’t like me, they won’t help me”. 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 it’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 “smoking related death” check-box is ticked. I have a
> feeling that in Canada all smokers, present or past, die of “smoking
> related” illness, even if run over by a bus. Also, my father’s date of birth
> was wrong, making him seven years older than he actually was when he died.
> I’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.
> 
> That’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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Robert Skinner  "Squirrel Haven" 
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