August 7, 2009 8:13 AM
Obamacare: rationing for seniors, disabled: who's lying??
As the Obama Regime ratchets up its vilification of those opposed to the government's attempt to take over our health care (and btw, whatever happened to those feminists screaming "Get the government out of my womb"?), please be aware that they have resorted to absolute lies to win what has become a pitched battle.
This is the most DoubleSpeak administration in our history - holding "Town Hall Meetings" not to LISTEN to constituents, but to propagandize their plan. Those not on board are now even being portrayed as racist. How pathetic that they have to stoop so low.
For anyone sorting through the mess, here is a report from a doctor whose experience cannot lie:
August 06, 2009
ObamaCare and me
By Zane F Pollard, MD
I have been sitting quietly on the sidelines watching all of this national debate on healthcare. It is time for me to bring some clarity to the table by explaining many of the problems from the perspective of a doctor.First off, the government has involved very few of us physicians in the healthcare debate. While the American Medical Association has come out in favor of the plan, it is vital to remember that the AMA only represents 17% of the American physician workforce.
I have taken care of Medicaid patients for 35 years while representing the only pediatric ophthalmology group left in Atlanta, Georgia that accepts Medicaid. For example, in the past 6 months I have cared for three young children on Medicaid who had corneal ulcers. This is a potentially blinding situation because if the cornea perforates from the infection, almost surely blindness will occur. In all three cases the antibiotic needed for the eradication of the infection was not on the approved Medicaid list.
Each time I was told to fax Medicaid for the approval forms, which I did. Within 48 hours the form came back to me which was sent in immediately via fax, and I was told that I would have my answer in 10 days. Of course by then each child would have been blind in the eye.
Each time the request came back denied. All three times I personally provided the antibiotic for each patient which was not on the Medicaid approved list. Get the point -- rationing of care.
Over the past 35 years I have cared for over 1000 children born with congenital cataracts. In older children and in adults the vision is rehabilitated with an intraocular lens. In newborns we use contact lenses which are very expensive. It takes Medicaid over one year to approve a contact lens post cataract surgery. By that time a successful anatomical operation is wasted as the child will be close to blind from a lack of focusing for so long a period of time.
Again, extreme rationing. Solution: I have a foundation here in Atlanta supported 100% by private funds which supplies all of these contact lenses for my Medicaid and illegal immigrants children for free. Again, waiting for the government would be disastrous.
Last week I had a lady bring her child to me. They are Americans but live in Sweden, as the father has a job with a big corporation. The child had the onset of double vision 3 months ago and has been unable to function normally because of this. They are people of means but are waiting 8 months to see the ophthalmologist in Sweden. Then if the child needed surgery they would be put on a 6 month waiting list. She called me and I saw her that day. It turned out that the child had accommodative esotropia (crossing of the eyes treated with glasses that correct for farsightedness) and responded to glasses within 4 days, so no surgery was needed. Again, rationing of care.
Last month I operated on a 70 year old lady with double vision present for 3 years. She responded quite nicely to her surgery and now is symptom free. I also operated on a 69 year old judge with vertical double vision. His surgery went very well and now he is happy as a lark. I have been told -- but of course there is no healthcare bill that has been passed yet -- that these 2 people because of their age would have been denied surgery and just told to wear a patch over one eye to alleviate the symptoms of double vision. Obviously cheaper than surgery.
I spent two year in the US Navy during the Viet Nam war and was well treated by the military. There was tremendous rationing of care and we were told specifically what things the military personnel and their dependents could have and which things they could not have. While I was in Viet Nam, my wife Nancy got sick and got essentially no care at the Naval Hospital in Oakland, California. She went home and went to her family's private internist in Beverly Hills. While it was expensive, she received an immediate work up. Again rationing of care.
For those of you who are over 65, this bill in its present form might be lethal for you. People in England over 59 cannot receive stents for their coronary arteries. The government wants to mimic the British plan. For those of you younger, it will still mean restriction of the care that you and your children receive.
Read the entire article at The American Thinker.
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Comments
While staying here in Canada this summer my son has come down with pneumonia...twice (never fully recovered from the first prescription of antibiotics). My son has been treated for pneumonia in the US and now in Canada.
Anyone who is telling you socialized or universal medical coverage is going to be better is OUT OF THEIR MINDS.
We are now being relocated back to Canada, where we will be assigned a family physician. Gone are my kid's pediatrician, ped. dermatologist, my son's PT specialist, and pediatric opthamologist. We will now only go to specialists at the discetion of the family doctor we are assigned. We will never get to "shop" for the doctor or specialist we prefer again. If anything very serious crops up in the way of health, we will be headed south, to an American hospital...and pay cash out-of-pocket because it is illegal for us to have any type of private health care coverage anymore.
Ask any supporter of socialized medicine to explain exactly this is going to be better for you. I bet they can't actually tell you.
Posted by: kelly | August 7, 2009 1:25 PM
The liberals that don't like parents refusing medical care in favor of faith and prayer to treat their children's illnesss are soon going to leave many with no other recourse.
Posted by: Julana | August 7, 2009 7:50 PM
