Now that Obama put on his Dog and Pony show on health care including an ‘Exhibit A’ truly sad story… which turns out to be a volunteer in an Obama organization whose ticket was provided directly by the White House. In fact, all three ‘random’ questioners were full-time Obama or union shills). True as the story may be, a really cynical piece of stagecraft.
Here is my briefest possible response, given my upbringing by a fifth generation doctor, 8 years of my work in the medical field as a lab tech, my mother’s current experiences in a nursing home, and my son’s medical condition.
My son is Exhibit B. He suffers with a rare 1 in 40,000 disease which manifests itself radically differently in every one of the sufferers, but seriously delibilitates all at some point of life. Nineteen of the top 20 experts of it reside in this country and our medical insurance has done an excellent job covering the mulititude of doctors required to evaluate his condition adequately, assess the best course of treatment and assure him the longest and most productive life while living with it. No other country in the world has such capabilities. And it wasn’t government health care that got that infrastructure in place, nor supports the finest minds in the world (many of whom are refugees from other countries and their government health care systems).
When things are really serious there is no finer system in the world; period.
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