Abject garbage.
Any honest discussion on healthcare must address the cause of health decline in this country. Healthcare in the US is reactionary and getting worse. Mothers are now birthing diseased babies at an ever-increasing rate and the only reason the infant-mortality numbers went down was due to cessation of medically-induced labor, not improvements in prenatal care. Simply put, doctors don’t know what the hell they’re doing and some are abandoning the popular model. I engage with those between the ages of 70 & 90 on a daily basis; if quality of that “longevity” is not also taken into account then the numbers matter little.
Propaganda from a medical community beating its chest to shore up medical stocks. Not impressed.
And yes they f**ked up passing that health bill; shoulda left it around the neck of the dems, as anything they do matters little, but we have to keep pitting one side against the other, now don’t we?
Third Leading cause of death in USA, that is over 600 per day
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/study_suggests_medical_errors_now_third_leading_cause_of_death_in_the_us
Yes abject garbage. No one factors in medical induced deaths from horrible side effect riddled FDA approved drugs. Or medical malpractice. Just pitched the 11th Peripheral Neuropathy drug for horrid side effects that was shutting my kidney’s down.
If you are a trained tech, you should be able to gauge my vein size by looking at them 22 gauge, which is child size. And not blow 5 with a to large IV Cath pick in less than 10 mins. Or puncture the elbow veins with the tiniest needle they use for Cardio test twice, and have to call a RN to do your job, she hits on the first stick.
Nor do you know what Senior Dehydration looks like after you’ve forced them to go 15-or more hrs with no fluids for 1 of your test. You don’t even offer them a glass of water after and make sure they are not disorientated and dizzy.
Good point about quality of life.
Running joke in our family is 68. The men on my fathers side back up the line, don’t live much passed 68.
My grandfather - 67, my dad - 64; His older brother lived until 72 but I wouldn’t give a warm bucket of spit for the last 5 years of his life.
My dad’s younger brother is still kicking pretty good at 76, so there’s hope for some of us, I hope, as I am nearing the end of my family shelf life.