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To: sweetliberty; null and void; Canadian Outrage
Assuming you survive until your name comes up on the list for an available ambulance.

That may not be a good thing. My neighbor, a long retired distinguished veteran of the British Empire's army was stricken with a particularly painful form of bone cancer. When the day for his treatment arrived, the unionized ambulance crew wheeled him on a gurney to the curb, then noted that it was noon and an unannounced "work stoppage" had been called. They left him in the road.

When the dems finish with us, we'll probably enjoy similar "free" treatment.

9,367 posted on 07/29/2009 4:17:33 PM PDT by catpuppy
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To: catpuppy

That is what concerns me. I guess we will have two choices....stay healthy or die quickly.


9,368 posted on 07/29/2009 4:46:27 PM PDT by sweetliberty
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To: catpuppy

There you have it, mind-numbed robots who have turned over their humanity, their very souls to a union. What an absolute disgrace.


9,371 posted on 07/30/2009 9:51:25 AM PDT by Darlin' (Stay well or the government will try to kill you.)
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To: catpuppy

My niece is a Paramedic catpuppy and they are not Unionized. They are actually employed by what;s called “Interior Health Services”. They must attend every call and I believe they would be fired if they ever left a patient on a gurney on the roadside. That’s incredible. Canada is not quite like Britian yet. We don’t have the same amount of population for one thing. I think that makes a major difference. Britian is literally stacked and packed with people. CO


9,373 posted on 07/30/2009 12:42:27 PM PDT by Canadian Outrage (Conservatism is to a country what an antibiotic is to an infection - Healing!!!!)
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To: catpuppy
Since we're sharing. I have a sweet Morman friend who she chose Italy for her two year mission about 12 years ago.

She was living in a small village when she dislocated her knee. They took her to a hospital in Verona to what was supposed to be an "emergency" room. She said it looked like something out of a movie, an older building with lots of arches, doors opening onto a promenade with more arches. An attendant put her in a large open area with lots of beds where she waited and waited and waited. At one point she saw a cat stroll into the rooom, look around and leave. LOL She could hear the staff chatting about personal matters, seemingly oblivious to her pain. Unaware that she spoke Italian, they mockingly referred to her at one point as a soft, coddled American. When she addressed them in Italian they made a brief pretense of concern for her well being.

Finally, they worked on her knee, put a brace on it, gave her a few pills and sent her on her way.

Fluid built up, she had to make a return visit. Pretty much the same scenario as before... the waiting, the indifference. Finally, her knee was drained.

Back to her apt, the pain worsened, an infection had developed, probably a result of the unsanitary conditions at the hospital. At this point the church intervened, first taking her to a hospital in Milan, then decided it was best to send her home. Her church chartered a plane and brought her home to a hospital here in town. She lost a good bit of the flexibility in that knee, about 20%, but she finally received the proper treatment.

That is an example of the excellant treatment you receive with socialized medicine.

9,376 posted on 07/30/2009 2:53:23 PM PDT by Darlin' (Stay well or the government will try to kill you.)
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