by Gayle Plato
D-Day is coming this year with a vengeance. The ObamaDoc Healthcare war lords are getting ready to attack. A media blitz is set to begin June 6, 2009, to convince the public that the stars of alignment are ushering in good medicine. Dr. Sanjay Gupta and other CNN Cultists are cranking out the muck-rake machinery. But then the astrology report of medical reform is more a Mercury retrograde, where everything goes awry.
One of the key edicts of any universal healthcare programming is the acceptance of death, sooner, and with less medical help. As I wrote of Princess Diana this week (http://tinyurl.com/q4udfs), I noted how she died after nearly two hours on the side of the road, without more than oxygen and chest compressions administered. France has a universal healthcare system lauded for its sophistication. Yet, it has many flaws including a troubled urgent care system. They have no paramedics there, but a trained squad who come out and treat at the scene in a MASH crash truck-style delivery. But the golden hour of care slips away as a patient does not get screening, imaging, and hospital-based assessment. Diana might have lived if that crash happened in New York City or here in Phoenix.
One of the biggest complaints of ANY socialized medicine is the aspect of waiting for help. It’s rooted in what killed Princess Diana. The programs DO NOT support the equipment and facility upkeep. Every single federalized health program in any first world country faces patient waits for screening and testing. There just are not enough MRI and CAT scanner, radiology and angiogram services. Mammogram waits can be months and months. England and Canada are notorious for this too. You die waiting to get good help. Do not believe the numbers that Canadian patients have better results or at least similar after receiving angio or stents- truth is that a statistically significant number of people in dire straits do not live until they get to the top of the list and therefore fall out of the data pool.
Then there are the ethical realities. Many of us have faith-based values of the sanctity of life. Universal healthcare infringes on these values. Look at a controversial case in Winnipeg. Canadian doctors have a managed care directive to not treat once an elderly patient is deemed ‘not-viable’. But Samuel Golubchuk, 84, has been on life support with minimal brain function at the Winnipeg Grace Hospital since last fall. He is an Orthodox Jew and his daughter clearly stated that they feel God determines the end of life, not doctors. Medical professionals are bucking the system and helping this man in his last days (http://tinyurl.com/oagka4).
Last and first days of life are critical to universal healthcare in this way: caring for a pregnancy and raising a child to adulthood and into old age is much more expensive than aborting the baby early on. Caring for elderly and any high need human being, especially if deemed terminal will be determined as extraordinary and not on the list of acceptable care. It may not come out in so many words, but see the push for euthanasia and easy access abortion and morning after pill services happening. Its cheaper than keeping the meek alive. The meek cannot inherit an earth they are not on.
As I listen to music late this night, one of my favorite songs comes on and the lyrics stop me in my tracks. I think it might be a new the theme song of ObamaDoc Healthcare Overhall 2009- Don’t Fear the Reaper, by Blue Oyster Cult. Here’s a sample of the lyrics to jar your memory:
One of the key edicts of any universal healthcare programming is the acceptance of death, sooner, and with less medical help. As I wrote of Princess Diana this week (http://tinyurl.com/q4udfs), I noted how she died after nearly two hours on the side of the road, without more than oxygen and chest compressions administered. France has a universal healthcare system lauded for its sophistication. Yet, it has many flaws including a troubled urgent care system. They have no paramedics there, but a trained squad who come out and treat at the scene in a MASH crash truck-style delivery. But the golden hour of care slips away as a patient does not get screening, imaging, and hospital-based assessment. Diana might have lived if that crash happened in New York City or here in Phoenix.
One of the biggest complaints of ANY socialized medicine is the aspect of waiting for help. It’s rooted in what killed Princess Diana. The programs DO NOT support the equipment and facility upkeep. Every single federalized health program in any first world country faces patient waits for screening and testing. There just are not enough MRI and CAT scanner, radiology and angiogram services. Mammogram waits can be months and months. England and Canada are notorious for this too. You die waiting to get good help. Do not believe the numbers that Canadian patients have better results or at least similar after receiving angio or stents- truth is that a statistically significant number of people in dire straits do not live until they get to the top of the list and therefore fall out of the data pool.
Then there are the ethical realities. Many of us have faith-based values of the sanctity of life. Universal healthcare infringes on these values. Look at a controversial case in Winnipeg. Canadian doctors have a managed care directive to not treat once an elderly patient is deemed ‘not-viable’. But Samuel Golubchuk, 84, has been on life support with minimal brain function at the Winnipeg Grace Hospital since last fall. He is an Orthodox Jew and his daughter clearly stated that they feel God determines the end of life, not doctors. Medical professionals are bucking the system and helping this man in his last days (http://tinyurl.com/oagka4).
Last and first days of life are critical to universal healthcare in this way: caring for a pregnancy and raising a child to adulthood and into old age is much more expensive than aborting the baby early on. Caring for elderly and any high need human being, especially if deemed terminal will be determined as extraordinary and not on the list of acceptable care. It may not come out in so many words, but see the push for euthanasia and easy access abortion and morning after pill services happening. Its cheaper than keeping the meek alive. The meek cannot inherit an earth they are not on.
As I listen to music late this night, one of my favorite songs comes on and the lyrics stop me in my tracks. I think it might be a new the theme song of ObamaDoc Healthcare Overhall 2009- Don’t Fear the Reaper, by Blue Oyster Cult. Here’s a sample of the lyrics to jar your memory:
“Came the last night of
sadness
sadness
And it was clear she couldn't go on
Then the door was open and the wind
appeared
Then the door was open and the wind
appeared
The candles blew then
disappeared
disappeared
The curtains flew then he
appeared...saying don't be afraid
appeared...saying don't be afraid
Come on baby...and she had no fear And
she ran to him...then they started to flyThey looked backward and said
goodbye...she had become like they areShe had taken his hand...she had become like they areCome on baby...don't fear the reaper”
1 comment:
Great post Gayle! I don't think this is the 'change' the Obama Worshipers voted for. We all knew this is what Obama has always wanted. He wants to run everything in people's lives.
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