Comments on: Bushies Are Trying to Kill You

By: The Mahablog » More Sicko

The Mahablog » More Sicko — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:11:06 +0000

[...] Update: I forgot to answer one other thing — Ms. Amy Something mentioned all those Canadians who are dropping dead while on waiting lists for elective surgery. I don’t remember the number she gave. I want to repeat something I wrote last month: [...]

By: The Mahablog » Demand Supply

The Mahablog » Demand Supply — Fri, 11 May 2007 19:52:12 +0000

[...] Yesterday I wrote about our nation’s emergency rooms. In short, they’re bad, and they’re getting worse. Emergency room capacity is shrinking, although demand is growing. People are dying because they wait too long to get treated. [...]

By: erinyes

erinyes — Thu, 10 May 2007 22:59:50 +0000

Swami, Limbaugh went to the D.R. to get treatment for his “reptile dysfunction”.
The proposed GOP health plan is a bottle of asprin, a roll of duct tape, and a Bible. As Steve Martin said in “The Jerk”, “that’s all I need!”.We don’t need no book learnin’ doctors!

By: maha

maha — Thu, 10 May 2007 22:19:44 +0000

Dirty minds thinking alike.

By: Donna

Donna — Thu, 10 May 2007 20:55:49 +0000

Best laugh today, Swami , #6 and Maha, #7. Glad I wasn’t drinking any coffee when I read that.

By: maha

maha — Thu, 10 May 2007 20:43:24 +0000

Swami — I guess it depends on what leg you’re talking about.

By: Swami

Swami — Thu, 10 May 2007 20:36:40 +0000

“restless leg syndrome” …?

Is that the disease the Rush Limbaugh went down to the Dominican Republic to seek a cure for?

By: maha

maha — Thu, 10 May 2007 16:29:12 +0000

There’s no money to be made supplying health care services to the poor. Therefore, the Bushies have no solution for it, except that the poor should just suck it up.

Our “health care dollars” are increasingly going toward providing boutique services, which includes the creation of boutique diseases — “restless leg syndrome” is the most recent, I believe. The health industry loves to identify problems to which they can provide marketable and profitable solutions. But emergency medical services, even though essential, are neither marketable nor profitable. So “market forces” are phasing it out.

By: Spades R. Spades

Spades R. Spades — Thu, 10 May 2007 15:54:49 +0000

Yeah boy…that 3.8 billion ’saved’ over the course of five years will go a long way to defray the hundreds of billions being dumped into the maintenence of their counter productive, DU spewing wars. Surely, but for the most ardent denial ridden kool-aid swillers…it can be seen all too clearly what the Bu$h priorities are. These bastards aren’t nearly as ‘dumb’ as they are simply inhumane, callous, and calculating. And just think; this is the same crew that masquerades under the banner of ‘compassionate conservatism’.

By: Donna

Donna — Thu, 10 May 2007 15:51:36 +0000

So, ah, why not just let the situation as described dictate corrective measures. Say, Medicaid charges are being upped a bit by hospitals which turns out to constitute an unofficial coping strategy to help respond to uninsured/inbetween folks needing emergency care. Ok, make a rule change, Mr. Bush, that immediately makes that coping strategy into an interim legit policy which interim policy supports real needs until government can institute a better system. Duh, its like those common sense city engineers deciding to put sidewalks where folks actually walk, making the short-cuts across some grassy spaces ok.