So, after 11 days I am home, and I will be receiving two visits a week from Home Care, in addition to any further treatment needed, such as chemo and radiation. And all of this cost me nothing, beyond the meds that I am now buying. There was no waiting and no "lottery." Don't believe the lies being spewed by the lobbyists.
Read the account and then repeat after me: "Single-payer."
Just to give some perspective on the screaming about how much it's going to cost us, get little tidbit, courtesy of my friend Nigel in Oz:
And do follow the link and read the descriptions of the various kinds of systems involved here.
A rejoinder to the Palinite loony fringe, via The Daily Dish:
My mother died on March 4, 2009.
I was right there with her, holding her hand. Because she had an Advance Health Care Directive, she died in her bedroom, with a few family members kissing her and telling her how much we love her.
It sickens me (sorry about the unintended pun, but I don't have a better word) that many moms and dads will die in hospitals hooked up to machines, drawing out the intolerable and the inevitable, because Advance Health Care Directives have turned into Death Panels. I want to die--when it's my time--just like Mimi did. It's pitiful that so many will be deprived of understanding this option because of Sarah Palin.
In that vein, here's Digby with some history on Crazy Sarah's "death panels."
Jst to prove that it's not all Sarah, get this one, brought to you in part by Liberty Counsel, another group of wingnut lawyers who specialize in losing civil rights cases.
Reader JP just alerted me to an email blast from a group called "The Pray In Jesus Name Project." It suggests that ObamaCare will not only pull the plug on grandma, but also result in a gay and transgendered takeover of the entire health care system. Among the bogus claims in the group's petition:
Your tax-dollars will pay for preferential hiring of homosexual hospital administrators, who distribute $50,000 grants to gender-confused activists for unneeded elective surgery to mutilate their own genitals, (and force Christian doctors to perform it.)
The group attempts to back this up by citing drafts of the House and Senate bills that make fleeting references to gender and sexual orientation, but which have nothing to do with mandated free sex-change operations. (PolitiFact, The St. Petersberg Times fact-checking service, does a great job debunking these allegations, many of which were put forth by Liberty Counsel--a group affiliated with Jerry Falwell's Liberty University.)
Last I heard, Christian doctors were just as money-hungry as any other kind -- I doubt much force would be required.
If, after reading some of these items, you wonder about the genesis of some of the lunacy, read this item by Digby.
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