The nightmare of socialized medicine

I want to tell you all about what happened to my wife, Sandi on Oct. 23.   She fainted while driving to work.   She managed to pull over and come to. I was talking with her on the phone when it happened.  I was terrified! She is a 70-year-old woman and very head strong.  She insisted on driving on to work.  I met her at the her work just as the EMT ambulance from Richardson, TX, got there.  They took her to the hospital emergency room of her choice, which was Presbyterian Hospital of Plano, TX.  They wheeled her into the ER and gave her an electro-cardiogram.  They checked her over for the possibility of a stroke.  Then — get this — they sent her right in for a brain scan.   She also got an x-ray, an IV, and a blood test.   The brain scan came up negative for stroke.  She walked out of the ER after three hours.   I was so relieved!

Now the clincher!   Her brother, who is a heavy boozer, DID have a stroke about two years ago. This man lost his speech and was partially paralyzed.  He lives in London, England, U.K.  The socialized medicine doctors in London told him he needed an emergency brain scan.  Then they told him that the brain scan would take up to four months!  He would have to go on a waiting list.  He had to go into a private health care facility to get the emergency brain scan.  The whole thing took about a week. During that week,  he was in agony.  He eventually partially recovered.

Now you decide which is the best health care system?   That’s not all.  The British socialized HC is a scandal.  I have compiled a list of newspaper articles on the terror of socialized medicine.  Just click HERE.

Before we throw away a working healthcare system, the best in the world, we should think very carefully, then keep what we have!

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2 Responses to “The nightmare of socialized medicine”

  • Yes, the potential nightmare of social medicine. It’s great if, and when, it works. Bad if it doesn’t. For me, I want choice. It’s ingrained in the fiber of my being – that’s why generations of my family have lived here – freedom choice in everything, including health care. Ah, but the affordibility of health care. Again, choice.

    Free markets, ultimately, determine the social good – the free market will track to the collective individual desires. Then the people, not the politicians, will have decided.

  • reiki healing:

    I Found The first system of socialized medicine based on compulsory insurance with state subsidy was created by Otto von Bismarck after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.

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