Vanity. Obamacare death panel victim in my family.

We've very nearly had our first obamacare victim in the family. We'll see next week.

Daddy goes in for open heart surgery in Houston sometime next week. Prayers would definitely be appreciated...

My father is a heart patient for 25 years. Had bypass surgery in 94 and clean arteries after that. Had a mild clotting incident in '05 and was put on warfarin. Warfarin leads to aortic stenosis (calcification of the aortic valve) in some patients, particularly older men.

Daddy started noticing symptoms of heart failure last spring (spring 12). He wasn't given any medical options. Just 'let's wait it out'. (which I find now is death for this type of thing. the earlier you operate the higher the chances of success, the longer you wait the weaker the heart the bigger the risk of death...)

Fast forward to this spring. He had a major episode and they did a balloon catheter on him. Said they could do that repeatedly (a lie). 3m later he has another episode and now they mention transcatheter valve replacement. But, they tell him they don't use the size he needs so he has to participate in a clinical trial that's testing that size.

So, daddy has a cousin in TX who is a bigwig with marathon oil. Who has a buddy who's an even bigger (retired) bigwig with marathon oil and a donor to Texas Heart Institute. A phone call is made on a Tuesday and daddy has an apointment with a Dr. Fish on a Thursday.

During that appointment the doc tells him that transcatheter has a much higher risk in HIS age group of knocking clots loose and causing problems. And since daddy's had open heart surgery before and knows what that recovery is like they can replace the valve with the correct size that way. But his only concern is with daddy's lungs...

'Well, you are a heavy abuser of nicotine and have smoked for 60+ years it says here in your medical record and that sort of risk factor concerns us'...

We're still wondering how THAT got on his medical record and how many OTHER older white people have that?

And the great part is...with Obamacare you have no rights to see your medical record...unlike Experian. To correct things that might death panel you w/o your knowledge.

Baptist (Jackson Heart) wasn't going to do open heart surgery on him, at all. Didn't even present it as an option with risks due to his 'smoking'. Just told him 'we'll wait and watch'...Which we find out (from reading pubmed and his asking the surgeon and cardiologist in Houston) is the WORST thing you can do with heart failure from a replaceable valve...

So here we are, a year and a half later with GREATLY reduced heart function, waiting for heart surgery in Houston...

Prayers up for your daddy, the family and all us older folks who will, ourselves, be PREMATURELY death paneled at some point.

THIS JUST IN:
Zenith Press Association

August 15, 2017
Chicago, Illinois

Marian Shields Robinson, mother of former First Lady, Michelle Robinson Obama, died yesterday. In otherwise excellent health, fully ambulatory and in possession of all her mental faculties, an autopsy determined that the cause of death was a relatively simple to repair coronary artery blockage. She was 80 years old.

Unfortunately, under the 2011 Universal Health Care Act, passed in 2011 (the last year of the truncated Obama Administration), the surgery necessary to clear the fatal blockage is prohibited on patients over 60 years of age.

The impeached Barack Obama could not be reached for comment. On death row at the Colorado Super-Max prison, he is awaiting execution for treason against the Constitution and the people of the United States and crimes against humanity.

The Republican breakaway New Freedom Party, which began winning congressional seats in the 2010 election and completed its sweep of conventional Republicans and Democrats from office in the 2016 election, has pledged to eliminate what President Palin called “…these unfortunate and unnecessary deaths of our older citizens who have, after all, done much to build this nation.” She went on to say “Of course, we all die. But this foolishly enacted legislation is consigning countless millions of otherwise healthy, capable, often wisdom-laden and loved parents and grandparents to early graves for simply corrected problems. It’s just morally wrong.”

Senate Majority Leader Rand Paul (NFP, KY) has pledged to revisit the Universal Health Care Act as soon as he and his colleagues on Capitol Hill complete the pending treason trials of 58 former Obama officials now taking up the bulk of their time.

When reached by phone for comment, former First Lady Michelle Obama, muttered a few unprintable scatological and profane terms and something about no longer being “…proud of this crappy country – not that I ever was.” Rambling almost incoherently, she blurted “That healthcare reform bill contained specific exemptions for government officials but that idiot Pelosi failed to include language covering our living ancestors and, because nobody read the damn thing, we never caught it,” before hanging up.

Arrangements are pending but those close to the family have hinted that Mrs. Robinson will be taken to Kenya for burial. Mrs. Obama has declared that she and her daughters will remain in Kenya — eventually found to be the actual birthplace of the disgraced former usurper president — and never return to the United States.

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(RAB/Zenith News Service Correspondent)

(Pregnant pause here…)

ROFLMAO!!!!!! RIGHT – LIKE THAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO THESE JERKS!

I was not comfortable with his first cardiology practice’s ‘we don’t let patients have their medical records, we send them to other doctors’ bit. Not comfortable at all.

He’s with the best in Houston, no doubt. He’s in the Cooley medical group. If we’d only known 18m ago to look for someone else. His original cardiologist didn’t seem at all concerned by his aortic stenosis. ‘We’ll just watch and wait’...

Augh.

My dad really liked Dr. Fish though. And once he found out daddy’d never smoked he changed the medical records right then.

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