Posted by
DecoNservAtiVE on Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:40:00 AM
This morning on my way into work, I was doing my obligatory pre 9AM (Glenn Beck) radio scan. I listened to the WDEL morning news, heard Michael Smerconish ranting about some unfinished project he was working on and finally settled on WIP for some low brow comedy mixed with sports debate talk. What I got to hear was far worse than the typical talk about breasts, pregnant women or my beloved Philly sports teams. What I heard was the morning show crew, Angelo Cataldi, Rhea Hughes, Hugh Douglass and Al Morganti discussing a very frugal nurse named Melissa. So frugal in fact that this particular nurse, and according to her testimony, many of her colleagues at the hospital, actually steal food from patients. Yes, you heard it right, they take the food ordered by these patients off the tray and replace it with a terrible sandwaich from the nurses fridge. Worse yet, this nurse actually admits to having called the hospital kitchen and ordering food for patients in a comma. Her rationale? "The kitchen doesn't know their diagnosis, and the guy in the comma isn't waking up." So America, you want to know why your healthcare costs are through the roof? This is why. And these morning show people, did they show the slightest bit of concern or denounce these acts? NO! They laughed and giggled and thought it was funny. Angelo Cataldi even saw fit to explain how he thought that it was great and how much he respected this thievery. Couple this with the NY Insurance Commissioners office denying a Primary Care Physician the right to charge a monthly flat right of $79 for unlimited visits, avoiding costly insurance and you can see why healthcare costs have gone up so much. By the way, the NY insurance commissioner has stated that the doctor must charge not only a $79 flat rate per month, but also a sick visit office charge of $33 per visit. This sort of defeats the original intent of the DR. who wanted only to charge his patients $79 a month for any and all visits with no limitations or other fees. Still think government run universal heathcare is a great idea? Also keep this in mind, over in England, where they have UHC, the nations rationing board (the group that controls who gets what medicine) denied life prolonging cancer treatments to dozens of patients due to the cost of the drugs. Are you sure about wanting the UHC?