Healthcare debacle

And now health care reform. Well I actually read it. Half of it refers back to other regulations and as usual its legalese. It seams that nobody in Washington can write in plain English. And yes provisions are made for end of life care and funding for planed parenthood, i.e abortion clinics. Don’t get me wrong I am NOT in favor of abortions. However I am in favor of letting everybody decide for themselves. Just like guns, I don’t have one, never will. But I will stand right beside you for YOUR right to have one. I might question you why do you need an Uzi to go hunting, but that’s your business. I have a little insight into the National health care debacle.

In the 70’s I lived in London England a National health care country. I worked at all places for AMI, American Medical International the owners of the Harley Street Clinic and princess Grace Hospital and some more “up country” all off them private Hospitals. They did a thriving business, taking on the “cast offs” from the national health care service. At that time a arthroscopic knee operation was about 1200 sterling. With a waiting list of 18 month. Of course you could not work during that time. So you were relying on welfare to keep you afloat. It was the bare minimum. So the Marketing dept of AMI offered the operation on a payment term starting one week after you went back to work, instead of a long waiting period. In the 70’s there was no other health insurance available. I remember at that time we had a lot of problems with far eastern people arriving at the airport passing through costumes and immigration and falling on their face in the airport with major illnesses like cancer etc. those people didn’t even had to book a hotel room and were carted of to a hospital. A waiting list was created because of instances like that. Under a National Health Care system emergency medical help will ALWAYS be applied. Accident or emergency medical help is always taken care off. And if a bed is available you will be admitted, thus moving “selective” surgery down the list. National health care will NOT remove the backlog in the ER, most likely increase it, because sometimes that’s the only way to get a bed. Does America need a NHC? No anyway we have one already, Medicare and Medicaid fix that first by putting ALL federal employees including congress and the senate on it

They will fix it then