Guest Post by Eric Peters
Well, I finally saw the Quack.
Actually, his PA. Nice guy. I told him about the indifferent response I got the day of the accident, when I called to see about getting an emergency appointment to deal with my fresh – and gaping and bloody – chainsaw wound. About how the Frau at the desk Doc-blocked me. The PA told me that, in the future, if something like this happens again, that I should use a Special Secret Codeword to get around the Frau.
That’s what it’s come down to in these Obamacare Days. But while it’s easy to blame Obama (it does have his name on it) the fact is the insurance mafia wrote Obamacare; the presidente was just the sock puppet. It is the insurance mafia that has turned medicine into “health care” and put us all under legal mandate to have (to purchase) health insurance but the mafia under no obligation to deliver medical treatment. And when it is grudgingly provided, to finance-rape us such that we, in future, will be very reluctant to seek treatment again.
Meanwhile, we pay.
Which, by the way was part of the reason I didn’t go to either the ER or the Urgent Care joint when I was doc-blocked by the Frau. Because I knew – as we all do – that going to an “unapproved provider” for a procedure not “pre-approved” would result, at the very least, in weeks and probably months of hassling over a huge bill that the mafia would not pay until they had tortured me with their bureaucracy … for weeks and probably months.
If they ever did pay.
That plus the prospect of what probably would have been at least $1,500 for 4-6 stitches (Dr. Eric’s estimate) and some bandages kept me away – which is exactly what the mafia wants. They want your money. They do not want to spend money on you. This is the sum total of the rigged game long con that is “health care” in the age of Obama but also long before. Read up on it. Especially, read up on Tricky Dick Nixon and his doings with Kaiser Permanente. You will be edified.
As well as some other things.
So, I ended up not getting stitches. Too late for that (after 24 hours, apparently, it is Too Late) but that’s ok because the only consequence is a scar and I gather chicks dig scars. As it turned out, I did a damned decent job of treating the wound, which had closed up on its own by the time I got through the Frau screen and finally obtained an audience with the PA (but not the doc). The PA used some adhesive tape to shore up my body’s own “glue” – and assure the wound stayed closed – gave me a Tetanus shot and sent me on my way.
My leg will be ok.
The “health care” system not so much.
No matter which buffoon ascends to the Dear Leadership. The she-wolf will simply enshrine Soviet-style doctoring while the Bloated Bloviator will “reform and replace” it. Mark that. He will not rescind it.
Abandon all Hope.
Revenge of the Health Care Clovers…..
I resent that a little. In my ED, at least if I am triage, a chainsaw wound gets a room. The idiot who comes in by Squad for their chronic early onset decrepitude sits in the hall until they self-discharge. Can’t do anything about the bill you get…if it makes you feel any better, my insurance is probably worse than yours.
If you had bled to death, would your estate have been able to sue the desk jockey who Doc-blocked you? Cold comfort, I know, but maybe a few examples …..
Nah. Ropes and lampposts make better examples.
ObamaDontCare has probably murdered a few hundred thousand folks by now, between driving bankruptcies and deprivations to denial of services for whatever trivial reasons will float. It may take a while before someone who understands statistics can show it, though.
So you’re saying Obama care is starting to look like the VA medical care system.
I’m shocked !!, Who coulda known??
My Wife just had her doc-mandated “healthy” appointment after a bunch of lab tests, and I joined her in the cubicle. She drew a PA this visit who started down the road of “your cholesterol is a little high” and I responded with “yes, but studies not funded by big pharma have proved the statin drugs are ineffective and can cause life-threatening side effects” to which she responded “yes but they’ll put anything on the Internet”. To which of course I had to respond that I’d read that on the “JAMA” website (Journal of the American Medical Assn). Then she asked my Wife how long it had been since her last mammogram (3 years). Of course she says, “well we need to schedule you for one” to which my Wife responded, no, “I don’t believe in them, too many false positives”.
Her response (which blew me away) was, “well you know Medicare will require you to have one”. At this point I went off the rails. “Show me where Medicare REQUIRES a Woman to undergo a mammogram!”
She backed off real fast, but muttered something like, “well they soon will and it makes your doc look bad”.
Our so-called “health network” is sinking like the Titanic.
Eric, just go to the mergency room and act like you’re a wetback who doesn’t speak English. That will get you treated. As long as they think you are a merkin, they will ignore your ass.
Yeah, let us know how Ed’s plan works out. Tell them you read it on line, it’s gotta be true.
Yeah, I can see eric tryin that one. He knows I’m full of shit, though. I doubt he’ll fall for my little scheme there.
Maybe we can get these gringos to self-deport that way.