What Really Angers Me About Universal Health Care
My dad has had 2 operations in the last 2 months, both supposedly covered under disability because he was forced into retirement due to his injuries. I’m not gonna go into the long drawn out story of his injuries, but I will give you the quick and dirty.
He has dealt with insurance companies for many years now on different injuries that ultimately lead up to a shoulder surgery and a knee replacement surgery.
The shoulder and the knee combination lead to his forced retirement from auto mechanics. After the knee, he was first told his pain meds weren’t covered by disability (brought to you by the government). After fighting that, he got a small dose of pain meds. Within days of leaving the hospital, the original prescription had run out, and once again, disability was refusing to pay. He was without pain meds for 3 days before it was resolved. Imagine that, just over a week out from having a significant amount of bone removed and replaced by titanium, he was without pain medication.
In all the years he has had knee trouble (15 or so) he never had as much trouble with insurance as he has with disability.
And these are the same people Michael Moore and Hilary Clinton want to take charge of our health care? Insurance may not be great, but they are, by far, the lesser of two evils. I’d like to see Moore do a documentary on all the people that have had bad encounters with government run health care agencies in the United States. Of course, it wouldn’t serve his socialist political motivations, so I won’t hold my breath waiting for that one.
[…] Like Communism and so many other things, Universal Health Care looks fantastic on paper. Then you actually have to live with it or something similar. […]
July 12th, 2007 at 3:31 pmI recently had a total knee replacement in my left knee. Because I live in Ontario it was all covered under our medicare program. I was actually surprised at how well everything went.
Basically 2 months from the visit to the specialist until the surgery, excellent treatment for 5 days in hospital, and no problem with prescriptions. By the time I was released, I was down to Tylenol 3’s. So I guess that’s an example of a universal program working okay. I write about the whole process leading upto, and after, the surgery as well as my ongoing recovery at www.totalkr.blogspot.com for those interested in knee replacements in particular, and universal health care in general.
November 7th, 2007 at 7:43 am