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Try jogging and tripping-Jamming your arm into the rotator cuff. That is a bad football injury or bad for any other sport. They wouldn’t give me anything–About 4 months later- I was trying to load bricks in my pickup- my shoulder gave a loud pop, and I regained full range of motion.. The health people here don’t want to spend money or give pills. I did my own physical therapy.

I had a cancer below my nose. A section of my lip was cut out. The side of my nose was slit up and off. part of the septum was cut out, part of the sinus bone was taken for biopsy too. I was sewn up, my nose re-attached, and sent home. I wasn’t given any pain killer. nothing–Even the inside of my mouth swelled up. I was that way for about 2 weeks. That was almost 6 years later- and my lip still cracks and peels, it hurts. And things like this still continue in my state.

Try that for pain— Obama signed this—-it has his name- and he took possession of this and it’s his—- Don’t you realize the people that are hurting from this don’t care about you and your friend——-

With respect, I’d add that it would also help if you didn’t put imaginary quotes in quote marks. Obama didn’t say or intend to say, most of that. I know it was a rhetorical device, but twisting words and then putting the twists in quotes can confuse people. Made me read it three times to sort it out.

Finally a last word on euthanasia although it was just quickly mentioned above (and although nothing in the video mentioned). This is, of course, mostly the bogus old “death panels” canard to let Big Pharma keep raking in the bucks,but it lives on. And I’ll thank healthy do-gooders yelling about it to just butt out. You think you’re being humane, but for millions of us your strident opposition is only blocking sensible and vitally needed discussions about how our society wants to handle the end of life in a population facing a boom among the elderly. Please understand that your obstructionism comes at a very high cost – miserable protracted suffering by people left stranded by blind legal restrictions in the world of hospitals and drugs, watching their own human dignity and even sense of themselves be ruined and lost. I don’t know what decisions I’ll face when my time is imminently up, which for me is rather soon. But I do know that when I make those hard choices I don’t want ideologically driven strangers, whom I don’t know and who don’t know me, ordering my doctors to follow rules I consider heartless, crudely simplistic and fundamentally cruel. It’s MY life and MY choice, and I don’t want you in the room when I’m sorting this out.

IUSB Vision Editor Responds:

Respectfully, it seems that you are reinterpreting what Obama is saying here in the best possible light, Also, keep in mind that yours truly went to insurance school and passed the state exam on the first attempt, so I am accustomed to reading insurance law.

But you are perfectly free to not believe a word in the article, perhaps you might believe his Labor Secretary Robert Reich who was very clear about the Administrations intentions:

I’ve now watched the video debated above, and it’s obvious that Obama is not advising people to just “take a pill” instead of have surgery. He’s talking in general about difficult end-of-life decisions that we will all face eventually, and that I will face soon. When is surgery going to be worth the pain, recovery, stress and quality of life impact that it will inevitably bring? Sometimes we decide the chance of living longer is worth all that. Sometimes we decide it’s not. Americans have very little support for thinking sensibly about a peaceful, sober death. We see death as pure failure and disaster, not as the capstone of one’s life. This leaves people to approach death with terror and “anything but that” desperate measures, which adds unnecessarily to our upset and stress. At that point, deciding on palliative care (called here a “pill”) can be the kindest and most dignified solution. For some of us (me?) that may happen with life just gets too hard, at any age. But if you’re 95 and still believe you have a decade to go and don’t want to pack it in yet, then the example in the video of the elderly patient seeking second opinions in a quest for a pacemaker and getting it is exactly what you should do. No first-world medical system on earth operates differently.

One other thing. I started my cancer care in Australia. I had excellent surgery, excellent follow-up, multiple doctors (surgeon, radiologist, medical oncologist, orthopedic surgeon)and cutting-edge medical care. It was all handled in a beautiful modern hospital. It was also fast: I was scheduled for surgery three days after my diagnosis, had the CT, MRI and other scans, and then a second surgery for a damaged bone. And in the Australian system, NONE of that care costs a DIME. Yes, the national systems have their downside: because of outrageous pricing: the UK has been battling about paying for the very drug I’m on here — which is covered for me thanks to Obamacare. Personally, I think it’s outrageous that the UK national health doesn’t pay for this particular drug as it’s a lifesaver. But before Obamacare, nobody paid for it.

So these stupid stories about people in Canada or wherever having to extract their own teeth really are greatly suspect. I don’t doubt this blogger can dredge of “dozens upon dozens of articles” confirming his worldview. But those of us dealing with mortality issues know what care we get and where, and until Obamacare the US system was a dirty, cruel, vicious, heartless atrocity. I’d be dead now without it, due to its elimination of the pre-existing-condition clause. Sure, Obamacare has some bad-start-up issues: it’s been a mess sometimes. But it’s a BIG step in the right direction. And I’d like to see this blogger walk up to my garage mechanic neighbor, who just had a $100,000 heart surgery free due to Obamacare because he got insurance he couldn’t get otherwise, and tell him that he’s deluded and that Obamacare must be repealed and that Obama is the enemy of mankind. See what happens to you.

IUSB Vision Editor Responds:

You may find the incidents of dentists and specialists in Canada being in shortage to be suspect, but a simple Google search can easily verify it. Also the Frasier Institute in Canada tracks all of this. Also, having lived closer to the Canadian border, I can assure you that it is true.

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