“Who survives? Us. If you want something, pay us like the rest.”
Posted on 10/25/2009 3:58:17 AM PDT by markomalley
New York state health officials recently laid out this wrenching scenario for a small group of medical professionals from New York-Presbyterian Hospital:
A 32-year-old man with cystic fibrosis is rushed to the hospital with appendicitis in the midst of a worsening pandemic caused by the H1N1 flu virus, which has mutated into a more deadly form. The man is awaiting a lung transplant and brought with him the mechanical ventilator that helps him breathe.
New York’s governor has declared a state of emergency and hospitals are following the state’s pandemic ventilator allocation plan — actual guidelines drafted in 2007 that are now being revisited. The plan aims to direct ventilators to those with the best chances of survival in a severe, 1918-like flu pandemic where tens of thousands develop life-threatening pneumonia.
Because the man’s end-stage lung disease caused by his cystic fibrosis is among a list of medical conditions associated with high mortality, the guidelines would bar the man from using a ventilator in a hospital, even though he is, unlike many with his illness, stable, in good condition, and not close to death. If the hospital admits him, the guidelines call for the machine that keeps him alive to be given to someone else.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
So under 0bamacare, stay out of the hospital!
“Who survives? Us. If you want something, pay us like the rest.”
Frank is probably used to having a hand on his shoulder.
Well, well . . . remember this is also happening in Florida (Gov. Charlie Crist)
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sfl-swine-flu-crisis-propublica-sboct18,0,2336680.story
A lot of IFs in this article
Simple, under this disgusting administration, the dims survive and pubbies perish.
Or the recently amnestied illegal non-english speaking
alien is treated and long time taxpaying, born here
american dies.
First of all, the patient in question who owned his own home ventilator has had its settings adjusted just for him(a pre-programmed card in most such machines). You wouldn’t take such a ventilator from him to give to another patient because of the infectious disease risk...the “stable” cf patient might be a MRSA or Hepatitis carrier. The machine just has to be turned on and chances are the patient has his own supply of filters and and humidifying equipment. He’ll just need suctioning and other monitoring.
Most such patients use only home CPAP machines or bipap machines designed to provide partial airway pressure while their diaphragms do the breathing. We have lots of patients who bring their own machines in all the time where I work and its no big issue setting up their systems and leaving them going thru the night!
yet i notice the word is never even mentioned... it would prolly burn like fire in their mouths
>>>>>While this is the norm in a triage-type situation (limited resources being outstripped by demand), it will become the norm in an Obamacare world.<<<<<
Zero is going to put the whole medical system into Triage mode.
0bama will make America one giant COMMUNE for Health Care AND some DEATH PANEL is going to make a choice for life or death for individual who no longer posses that freedom of choice.
There seems to be a pretty strong trend here - COMMUNITY Organizer + COMMUNAL Health Care + COMMUNIST CZARS (extra credit for the Maoists) = Communism for America.
“Community Organizer” is just the new lexicon for Communist in America.
Just having completed a very long week of H1n1 with an 8 year old we are thankful he is fianally getting better. We were not offered vaccine. Watching the news last eve we noted long lines of people waiting to be innoculated. It appeared that most were inner city hispanics. I am perplexed by the way the vaccine becomes available and who decided where it will be released to the public. Pediatricians do not seem to have the vaccine. What is going on with distribution?
In my county, the low-income schools got the first shipment of vaccine. Those kids got free shots at school, whatever their individual family income.
The wealthier areas will wait a few more weeks for a “free” clinic, and the county wants only uninsured people in line for those.
My pediatric group has 9 clinics. The clinics in the lower-income cities had some vaccine (very little). I was planning on driving an hour to get it there, when my local clinic got a small shipment (they ordered 11,000 doses and received 10, according to my ped).
I paid $60 in copays for my 4 kids to get the shot last Thurs. I’m sure most of the 9 clinics are out again. They update their website daily with their status.
My own doc office is lame; they couldn’t even tell me if they’ve ordered any—they seemed clueless.
I believe it is part of wealth redistribution. Also, in order
to solidify hispanics as dems, the freebies they recieve
is amazing. They receive top of line medical care, free
obstetrician services plus free carseat, new schools built for
them, my town in ga has built two new taxfunded medical clinics
where they receive vaccines first. And, the Republicans
in Ga. go along. They receive WIC, no money down mortgages,
etc. It is crazy, and I will always hate GW Bush for colluding
in this invasion. Worse things are to come.
The left is so tickled that they might have a chance to kill people - decide who they will allow to live and who they will kill in this flu season. They are absolutely sick fascist freaks.
Under a normal US leadership, the government would be working to expand the equipment and staff needed to save as many Americans as humanly possible. But with Marxists, we must discuss who to kill with our shortage of ventilators and health care facilities.
“Under a normal US leadership, the government would be working to expand the equipment and staff needed to save as many Americans as humanly possible. But with Marxists, we must discuss who to kill with our shortage of ventilators and health care facilities.”
So what you are saying is that the “lifeboat scenario” where we brainwash kids into accepting relativistic morality and deciding who to kill is a communist philosophy, whereas the American philosophy is to simply build a bigger boat and stock it appropriately.
If the Obama Administration and the ‘Rat leadership in Congress has its way, this is the future of American medical care.
Of course, all politicians will ensure that they survive leaving their slave populace to fend for themselves.
Got that right.
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