They Might Have Lived
by Joel Hendon(562)
As the debate over government control of the health care industry rages on, amid fears of greater financial deficits, a shortage of medical professionals, destroying the senior citizens current health care, and rationing of health care at no less cost, people need to look at other nations who have tried the public health system. You can look at Canada, England, France and many others where you will find serious problems that most never give consideration to. It may help you to decide what you really prefer.
Another, more indicative of what governmental rules can mean, concerns a young woman from the United Kingdom. She is the mother of a little girl and was pregnant with a male fetus. She went into labor at 21 weeks and 5 days. The doctors warned her that the baby was very underdeveloped and would be stillborn. She had already undergone 5 miscarriages and was devastated that this one would be stillborn also.
But when the tiny boy was born, he was breathing and moving. She said that his tiny fingers pressed partially around her finger. When she told the doctors to put him into an incubator and intensive care, they would not. Their regulations were not to place a premature baby, under 22 weeks, into intensive care. He lived two hours before he stopped breathing. Born only two days (48 hours) before he could be legally accepted as a viable life.
Then there was Richard Adams, a retired engineer whose eyesight began to deteriorate and he was diagnosed with cataracts in 2004. He was scheduled to receive surgery for those cataracts in March 2007. He lived alone and was barely able to fix food to eat for himself, could not drive to the store himself and many other serious problems due to his very poor vision.
Finally, in June of 2007, the doctors removed the cataract from one of his eyes and he was very pleased with the fact that he could actually see again, but had to wear a black patch over it for a few days. Then, four days after the procedure, he died from blood poisoning which he reportedly got from the hospital.
We have been so accustomed to good and prompt medical attention here in the U.S., we cannot imagine anything like those cases mentioned above, but they are real and are happening daily. People who have the money and ability to get here, come from England, Canada, and other places to get prompt an quality treatment. To allow the government to take over the healthcare management is pure folly. We may not have a perfect system, but we need to work on those features that are amiss and leave the good parts alone! The bills so far which have been written up in congress are completely unacceptable for our failing economy or maintaining good and available care promptly. Let your legislators know what you wish to see in a healthcare system
Article submitted Thursday, September 10, 2009 & read 103 times.
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