Posted on 10/04/2019 4:39:46 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell
Under socialized medicine, Bernie would have waited weeks instead of a day.
Fri Oct 4, 2019
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On Tuesday night, Senator Bernie Sanders, the socialist candidate who has run on a plan to nationalize medicine and ban health insurance, began to feel ill while doing an event at a Pakistani Halal restaurant.
Sanders requested a chair in the middle of answering a question. He appeared even more confused than usual and stumbled through his response. The event at the Halal restaurant was cut short and the millionaire campaigner against wealth was rushed to the hospital and admitted that very night.
The Sanders campaign failed to state and the media failed to report the name of the hospital. Why keep the name of the hospital secret? Sanders is most closely associated with a plan to take away everyone else’s access to the kind of health care he just benefited from. Releasing details about his level of care could prove as embarrassing as the socialist millionaire’s recent ascension to the ranks of the 1%.
What we do know is that Bernie Sanders was admitted Tuesday night and by the next day, he had two stents put in to deal with a blockage in an artery. He tweeted, “I'm feeling good. I'm fortunate to have good health care and great doctors and nurses helping me to recover.” And added, “Medicare for All!”
Despite the name, Medicare for All has nothing to do with Medicare. It’s a socialist proposal that would actually eliminate Medicare and reduce everyone to a sub-Medicaid system with limited care options. It draws its inspiration from the British NHS, Canada’s socialized medicine and some European systems.
While Bernie’s timetable of getting an angioplasty within a day might not sound that impressive to Americans, in the British NHS system, the median time from assessment to treatment is 55.3 days. Mean times for treatment have been cited as being 80 days. The maximum NHS waiting time is supposed to be 18 weeks and almost 16% of patients in the UK have to wait more than 3 months for an angioplasty.
Canada’s socialist system has angioplasty waiting times of around 11 weeks. And that’s after you get an appointment to see a specialist. The usual approach is to hand patients some aspirin and to praise Canada’s enlightened socialist system for not “rushing” patients into the hospital like the Americans.
You can go to the ER, but waiting times in Canadian ERs are worse than most other countries.
Senator Bernie Sanders has cited Norway as an inspiration for his socialist policies. 13.4% of Norwegians wait three or more months for the procedure that Bernie got just by walking into an “undisclosed” hospital in the United States.
Bernie waited a day in Vegas to get his angioplasty. In Norway, he would have waited 39 days.
In Finland, which Bernie has also cited as an inspiration for his socialist program, he would have waited 22 days. In Sweden, another favorite of American socialists, Bernie would have waited 42 days.
In New York, the average wait time is a day.
Sweden has improved from its infamous wait times of over a year during the eighties when 10% of cardiac patients on the waiting list were dying while on line to get access to its “Medicare-for-All”.
Socialists also love to tout the virtues of Cuban medicine. Good luck getting an angioplasty in Cuba.
“I think that countries like Denmark and Sweden do very well,” Senator Bernie Sanders claimed.
But, bafflingly, he chose to get an angioplasty in Vegas in a day instead of waiting around for 42 days in Sweden. Bernie Sanders wants Americans to live under socialism. As long as he has other options.
Sanders wants to benefit from a system in which he can get two stents put in one day, but he wants you to live under his Medicare-for-All socialist plan which would force you to wait weeks and months.
And if you die then, just as in Sweden or the VA, that’s one less cardiac procedure on the waiting list.
Senator Sanders had come to Vegas to appear at a Medicare-for-All town hall. He wasn’t able to make it because he was too busy benefiting from the free market medical system that he wants to destroy.
Ironically, if his socialized medicine system existed, he would have plenty of time to appear at his Medicare-for-All town hall while gasping for breath and popping aspirin. He would have had weeks, perhaps months, of waiting for his angioplasty while promoting Medicare-for-All.
Sanders is only able to continue campaigning for socialized medicine because he isn’t living under it.
But Bernie’s leftist speechwriter, David Sirota, insisted that Bernie’s health scare was “a perfect example of why the United States needs to join the rest of the world and pass Bernie’s Medicare for All legislation.”
It’s a pity that Bernie didn’t join “the rest of the world” and wait weeks to get his angioplasty.
Instead of going into an “undisclosed” hospital and getting his procedure done in a day, Bernie could have shown his supporters how socialized medicine really works and the sacrifices they’ll make.
But a camera crew following Bernie for weeks while he gasped for breath waiting to finally be seen would have killed any remaining support for the socialist plan to destroy health care in this country.
It might have also killed Bernie.
And if Bernie Sanders does, somehow, become the nominee and win the election, a set of events as unlikely as the NHS delivering faster and better care than Bernie’s “undisclosed” hospital, then he won’t be waiting 42 days or 18 weeks for an angioplasty. Instead, he’ll be going to “undisclosed” hospitals.
Socialist leaders don’t live by the same rules they make for everyone else.
“Nobody should earn more than a million dollars,” Bernie Sanders claimed when he ran for Senate. He argued that millionaires in the Senate were “immoral”. These days he’s a millionaire. And that’s okay.
“I wrote a best-selling book,” he sniped. “If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too.”
“You don't necessarily need a choice of 23 underarm spray deodorants or of 18 different pairs of sneakers when children are hungry in this country,” he once argued.
But Bernie Sanders and his crooked clan need to have three homes. Even when children are hungry.
Bernie needed to fly around on a chartered 767 jet serving lobster sliders, crab salad, red lentil soup, herb crusted lamb loin, chocolate ganache, fine cheeses and white wine.
You don’t need a choice of deodorants. But Bernie needs a choice of lamb loin, ganache and crab salad.
There’s no mention of him sharing the fine cheeses or the lobster sliders with the hungry children of America whom he once saw on TV in a Sally Struthers commercial in between episodes of Matlock.
If Bernie gets his way, he won’t wait 42 days for an angioplasty. You will.
Bernie, just like Prince Harry, Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio, will have his jets and his white wines and his medical procedures. And he will have them the moment he decides he needs them.
You will get nothing. Not unless you have the right political connections.
That is socialism.
If Bernie Sanders were some random 78-year-old man, Medicare-for-All might have killed him. But if Bernie gets to run the country, then Medicare-for-All won’t kill him. He’ll never even experience it.
Medicare-for-All will kill you.
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That’s too bad.
Bernie Sanders would have been fine under Medicare-for-All.
He is, after all, one of the elite. US Senators will always be well cared for, even if the mass of Americans have to line up for three days for an Z-Pack.
Thank God our president has strengthened Medicare. The in depth analysis of its problems as well as its strengths has allowed the president’s commission on Medicare to craft rules that will substantially strengthen and protect this important and valuable program.
Nonsense
Bernie is at the age when 99% of American get Medicare already.
Bernie’s processing depended on his condition and doctor availability.
Under Medicare for All, if a low income black man is having a heart attack and you have angina, you’ll wait.
an active MI is always triaged before angina.
Dont be an ass.
Excellent piece. “Sub-Medicaid” for all, with statistics.
If I didn’t own a house and had Bernie’s condition, I’d be waiting to die.
I’m still curious as to why the old curmudgeon didn’t go to Canada or Denmark or another single-payer country...
The NHS is the UK’s largest employer.
That’s why socialists love single payer.
It’s a jobs program for bureaucrats.
Maybe at his age, he would be offered a pill to make him comfortable.
Under Medicare for all everyone but the government dictators will wait regardless. They’ll be the last to suffer the dearth of doctors. Look at any socialist medical system in Europe. Look at Venezuela. You think those people are getting medical care just because they’re actively dying MI or not?
People don’t think this through. Medicare has been operating in bankruptcy for years. Care diminishes regularly, incrementally
The government does not generate money. The payment to that system comes from workers. The users are workers plus everyone else. Medical people won’t get paid. There won’t be money for innovation and research. These will decrease.
Triage will resemble battlefield triage. Priority will adjust. And government officials as in all dictatorships will have the best medical care
Think of it. Congress people- and I use that word lightly- do not fall under Obamacare.
I guess the affects of having to work once in his life have taken hold.
BTW, has anybody in the media called this a heart attack?
He’s still in the hospital - in lieu of an MI, he should have gone home the next day.
Ummm...Sanders could have died under any health care system. Just sayin’.
Curious what his plan is? Obamacare?
Why Bernie didn’t insist on getting Cuban healthcare said it all.
What a goofy premise.
Party bigwigs will always get top notch healthcare in communistic systems.
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