Posted on 08/08/2006 3:56:25 PM PDT by wagglebee
You're right. I had to get a prescription for penicillin a while back, the pharmacy couldn't get my insurance card figured out and said they couldn't fill the prescription until they called the insurance company. I asked them how much it would be if I just paid for it and it was $4.50.
WHY YOU SHOULDN'T VOTE FOR CHARLIE CRIST: Friends and a few who are not too friendly,
Take a moment to listen to Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist on a south Florida radio station for just over 2 minutes. This exchange is not deep, but it does illustrate Charlie's ability to say, "Yes," and "No," and "I haven't decided," in the same sentence. Charlie gives deliberately designed to confuse sound bite answers on abortion, Terri Schindler Schiavo, same sex abortion, rumors of being gay, same sex adoption, and civil unions.
This man is not fit to be governor, but the "I'm a nice family guy," lukewarm chicken soup campaign Tom Gallagher is running suggests Crist and and Gallagher have made a back room deal. Is it reasonable to speculate, after a short post election vacation, Charlie will announce Gallagher is being tapped for some spot that will keep him in the headlines.
***Forward this audio clip to every Republican primary voter in Florida, with a special emphasis on morally and spiritually well anchored Christians.
While Gallagher is ethically challenged using his government computer to trade stocks in companies he regulates, those trades have been for chump change, like friends entertaining themselves playing penny poker. Crist on the other hand used, abused his office, cooperating with an ethically and legally challenged George Greer and Bernie McCabe, to help kill an aware of self woman who screamed for her life. An official very close to McCabe conceded in a conversation with me about 2 years ago, killing a person who is aware of self is, quote, "Oh, that's FIRST DEGREE MURDER."
John Sipos
Through a number of circumstances a close family friend with was temporarily placed in a state hospital ward that was caring for people with severe dementia. I went to visit him there. When I arrived he was lying in a reclining chair and seemed barely able to talk to me. This did not stand out from the condition of the other people there. But it seemed odd to me because I knew that although he had some problems he had not previously been so totally out of it. A doctor told me that his state was just due the medications he had been taking which made him drowsy. Right after this a nurse whispered in my ear that I had every right to make sure my friend was seen at a hospital. I insisted and he was seen at the emergency room. It turned out that he had been severely dehydrated and could have died if I hadn't shown up just then.
This is socialized medicine at it's best. Billary's dream for Amerika. Sick people cost a lot of money. If they aren't going to get better to the point of being productive (i.e. paying taxes vs. using resources) then we need to quietly get them out of the way. The world is mad. Very mad.
But how could that be? We've got judges, attorneys and doctors in Florida that say starving/dehydrating is a perfectly peaceful -- nay, euphoric! -- way to go!
I was talking to a very good friend today. He says the same thing is going on more and more today in hospices. Very common today in Oregon.
I still wonder what happened to my own Mom in Oregon, taking sick, but not that sick, and suddenly dying in their care.
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This story is heartbreaking.
After personal experience with hospitals, I no longer trust those who administer "care". It's crucial for anyone who has a loved one hospitalized to be involved and questioning of treatment.
Can't trust doctors anymore.
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