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To: Innovative

My aunt was a retired school teacher in Sweden. She got cataracts and was almost blind. She got on the wait list and they kept backing it off and backing it off. Finally a nurse told her that because she was a retired woman that her priority was so low that she’d never get the operation. After that she got depressed and died. (So, they saved a lot of money there.)

This is how socialized medicine is intended to work.


5 posted on 01/26/2014 12:31:53 PM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: Gen.Blather

“Finally a nurse told her that because she was a retired woman that her priority was so low that she’d never get the operation. After that she got depressed and died. (So, they saved a lot of money there.)

This is how socialized medicine is intended to work.”

Sad, but true. Most people here have no idea, they think they will get immediate Cadillac care for nothing and by the time they will figure it out, it will be too late, the system will be too entrenched to change it.


7 posted on 01/26/2014 12:34:28 PM PST by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Gen.Blather

That’s right...


9 posted on 01/26/2014 12:34:52 PM PST by DoughtyOne (ZERO is still zero, and John Kerry is a mock-puppet!)
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