Hey, that's the same thing Obama said about the old lady and the pacemaker.
I didn't sleep at a Holiday Inn last night but I'm pretty sure that a painkiller can't take the place of a pacemaker.
Posted on 07/27/2009 2:00:14 PM PDT by urroner
Welcome to Universal Health Care.
According to a Swedish newspaper, "An 83-year-old woman from Östergötland in southern Sweden was forced to pay for back surgery out of her own pocket after doctors at her local public hospital told her she was too old for the treatment."
The woman, Marianne Skogh, reportedly has had "pain and numbness" in her legs since 2004, and waited more than a year before being rejected. She suffered from pressure on her spine, causing the pain.
"Without the operation, I might have lived another five years in incredible pain," said Skogh. "But what kind of life is that?"
According to the report, "...despite the lengthy wait for the diagnosis, Skogh was then told that, even though the ailment was treatable, she was too old for the surgery." Besides age, the fact that she had previously undergone heart surgery was another reason for denying the treatment, doctors said.
Instead of surgery, she was given painkillers. When they didn't help, she was still rejected.
Eventually, the woman traveled to a private hospital and financed the operation herself. "Less than a month after the surgery, she is living pain-free and says the price she paid for private treatment was worth regaining her quality of life."
Are you ready, America?
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Go away you old hag and die right.
Whoops, I entered the title wrong, it’s a woman. Sorry for the gender confusion. A lot of that has been going on lately.
That’s okay. There will be new gender defining classifications under the new health care system anyway...
Old Swedes go die - we need your money for the exploding Muslim population in Malmo.
It is a fact that Americans are less socialistic by nature than Europeans..long schooled in the dominance of Govt.
Even if thay pass this legislation..I can’t see that American..as a whole would put up with it.
I lived in Europe for a while and my company built a new office building. The govt requirements were strict and a consultant laid out every office, where the desk and table went etc. One day we were allowed in before the move to see our new offices. I walked into mine..no one else was there and moved the desk and chairs where I wanted them.
Since no one had seen the arrangement before the move..I was home free. Others would walk in and say..wow your place is much better set up..! The rest of the European’s in the office just accepted that they didn’t have the right to move their furniture.
If it’s worth saying once, step up and say it twice. ;)
LOL.
I remembered something after I hit the post button, and hit the X stop loading button. Thought I caught it and then revised my answer.
The second one at 7 includes the reminder to not grow older...
Hey, that's the same thing Obama said about the old lady and the pacemaker.
I didn't sleep at a Holiday Inn last night but I'm pretty sure that a painkiller can't take the place of a pacemaker.
“Eventually, the woman traveled to a private hospital and financed the operation herself.”
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Don’t look now, but she is living under the American system. Pay for insurance, have the corporation refuses to pay (as advertised when they wanted you to buy the policy), then you reach into your pocket and pay for it yourself.
Most Americans' ancestors were the ones who didn't want to put up with all that micromanagerial control imposed upon them by their self-appointed, more powerful 'betters' elsewhere around the globe. They said "@&*% this!", got up off their rear ends, & at great personal risk, set off for unfamiliar territory to escape the oppressive status quo in their homelands. The ones who stayed behind just sat there, took it & contented themselves by concocting ever-more absurd excuses to justify their extreme timidity in the face of domination by political & social bullies. Evidently, their ingrained determinism & fatalistic passivity versus our ingrained impulse for freedom-seeking self-determinaton seemed to have imprinted itself upon & eventually came to dominate our respective gene pools.
I just pray there's enough of that vestigial love of freedom still swimming around in there still & that that you are right in your optimistic hunch that even today most Americans ultimately just aren't "wired" to willingly succumb to being oppressive micromanagement by the very same sort of power-mad elitism our forefathers came over here to escape.
Gee, I would be dead twice if this kind of program was here in this country.
*Phew*
Only difference is that we won’t be able to go to a private hospital to get that done.
Obama told us that our greedy capitalist doctors did that! He wouldn't be lying to us, would he?
It's kind of funny that we're rushing into this Government run one-size-fits-all-whether-you-want-it-or-not system, and all of the socialized countries are screaming that it doesn't work. This month, I heard from a colleague in Germany that if you want good treatment, you need to purchase private insurance ON TOP OF the socialized insurance provided by the government. Now the same in Sweden. And, PJTV uncovered the same issue a couple weeks ago in Canada...showing that "private" pay-as-you-go clinics were the only places you could get good service.
Wake up, people (and by people, I mean the brain-dead liberal-mantra-regurgitators)! It doesn't work.
We need to reduce healthcare to pay-as-you-go for routine care, with tax-free medical savings accounts and insurance to cover catastrophic issues.
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