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On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 17:13:44 -0500, Mike Flannigan
<mflannigan@jam.rr.com> wrote:

>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-abrams/limbaugh-lauds-socialist_b_...
>
>Paul Abrams
>Physician
>Posted: January 2, 2010 01:59 PM
>
>Limbaugh Lauds (Socialist) Medical Care in Hawaii
>
>According to Rush Limbaugh, the health care reform that may be passed
>by Congress is socialism. Yet, it bears a striking resemblance to the
>universal healthcare system that just treated him in Hawaii that
>prompted his remark: "there is nothing wrong with the American health
>care system. I received no special treatment."
>
>Yes, Rush. That's the point! American medicine is superb--for those
>who can get it. And, in Hawaii, no one gets special treatment, because
>everyone can get it.

The main idea of reformed Healthcare is to get the 30 to 40 million
covered. Thats it. The quality will stay the same but the quantity of
people getting the quality will increase.

>
>Why? There are a variety of reasons, most traceable to universality.
>With everyone covered by primary care, emergency room visits tend to
>be for real emergencies, not the non-emergent care mainland ERs
>dispense for people without coverage. That reduces the costs of ERs
>and the costs of non-emergent medicine since patients can be handled
>less expensively and more effectively by their primary docs. 

Have you ever seen a Canadian emergency room? Its a long wait, so it
would help to be not bleeding too badly or in a lot of pain. Ideally,
you're correct but, people will end up running to the doctor's office,
the clinic or the emergency room for a sliver, a cold, or sometimes
just the attention they get. I've witnessed all three in my travels.
Ideally, there is abuse too.

>Hospitals >have not overbuilt, acquiring expensive machines to compete with their
>neighbors for patients. Insurance companies have instituted screening
>and other measures to improve wellness among their covered
>populations.
>
>We can all be pleased that Rush appears to have survived his encounter
>with socialist medical care. He seems to be very happy himself,
>commenting on the results of a socialist angiogram that showed no
>disease in the arteries that feed his heart muscle.
It was gastrointestinal by nature - the Hawaiian food got down the
gullet too fast. What's he gonna say? Of course it wasn't near his
broken heart.
>
>Now, of course, Rush does not live in Hawaii and so his costs are not
>covered by the Hawaiian insurance system, but having that "socialist"
>system for more than 3 decades has not reduced the quality of the care
>he received. Who would have thunk it!
>
>If Hawaii-style medical care is good enough for Rush Limbaugh, it is
>good enough for me. 

Rush has "bootstrap" medical coverage. Its the most expensive in the
world because he got a hold of his bootstraps and pulled himself up
from a lowly job as a Kansas City Royal's (last place team) public
relations disaster, to the highest paid political windbag the world
has ever known. He reportedly re-adjusted his contract, extending it
to 2016 for 400? million dollars. So who couldn't pig out at a luau,
get a severe gas attack and then go to the hospital to get the pouch
belly pumped out? So then he pulled on his bootstraps again before he
came out for a press conference to flame the liberals' with his
"nothing wrong with healthcare" spiel. You have to admit he's the best
at raising hackles with assinine rhetoric. 
" We luv ta hate cha Rush"...