One of my degrees is in Medical Laboratory Tehnology. My father was an Oral Facial Maxillary Surgeon, my sister still practices in another state as an Emergency Medical Physician.

I know I got great care.

With the type and severity of the bloodstream infection I suffered by ignoring too long the flesh-eating bacteria infection, the usual outcome is death of the patient. I finally called for an ambulance when my blood pressure dropped like a rock.

I am concerned that the care received would and could change drastically if there were government beaurocrat gatekeepers involved. That sort of system always results in rather draconic "catch all" rules and regulations, money saving plans at the expense of life saving plans, the whole nine yards of what the government can screw up, which is just about anything and everything they lay their hands on.

I do know about these situations where people get shuttled from hospital to hospital when they should be receiving care. That is something that is wrong with the current system and could be changed with a few tweaks here and there, perhaps even some passage of laws by our congress.

But as a practicing design engineer I can't see the complete dismantling of a system that works a majority percentage of the time and replacing it with something run by people who manage to mess up everything else already.

The sheer amount of disengenuousness (word? screwit, it is a word now) being hurtled about concerning this issue should be ample cause for concern IMO.

It is like you are riding around enjoying driving your car, it runs like a top, sure there may be a few things that need attention, but you weren't planning to buy a brand new car for some time to come yet, just address some of those problems with repairs, but then some high up politician comes up to your driver's side window and informs you that the card you are still driving is totally dead and in need of abrupt replacement.

Who are you going to believe?

That politician or your own lyin' eyes?


--Mac


--Mac