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**The Lucky AC** Everything in life is luck User ID: 888 08-19-2012 08:17 PM

I spoke with a nurse from a local nursing home here in Louisiana, she told me her patients painkiller prescriptions are no longer being covered by Medicare. The patients are all suffering from withdrawals and the staff there is not equipped to deal with it.

Bobby Jindal turned down the AHA and Louisiana lost 5 million in Medicare funding because of it. Louisiana is so poor we receive over 60 cents on ever dollar we spend on Medicare from the federal government. The main reason he turned this down was in hopes of getting the VP nomination from Mitt.

I suggest you check on your elderly if you live in a state where your Republican governor turned down the AHA.

Even before this Jindal had made deep cuts into the LSU Medical System which provides low cost care to the uninsured. A friend went to the ER of one recently while suffering a stroke, they had no room in the ICU or a bed on a floor for him so they put him on a cot in the ER for 24 hours to watch him. What he witnessed that night was gorilla health care. A 69 year old woman that has worked as a cook all her life came in with a broken leg. They had no staff to x-ray her so they could not put a cast on her, they were going to give her crutches and a boot but there were none to be found, so the doctors made a homemade splint for her and told her to go to another hospital 150 miles away. They also had no pediatrics staff available, so if you had a sick baby you were out of luck.

This is what our system of medical care has given us. Life saving medical care should not only be for those that can afford a $500 a month premium or are lucky enough to have coverage provided by your employer.

This is what 60 years of the insurance racquet running our medical system has given us. Insurance companies are not in the business of providing health care they are in the business of denying health care.

I hear people say they don't want to pay for someone else's health care, well when people have to seek emergency care and are unable to pay, we all pay for it in the form of higher health care costs. So you end up paying for it one way or the other. Why not provide them preventive health care and bring down the costs? We would have a healthier and stronger nation. When socialized medicine was introduced in Europe employers found there were significant fewer sick days taken resulting in huge savings, not to mention healthier and happier more productive workers.

When the AHA goes into effect in 2014 the cost of insurance premiums will drop. There will be more people in the insurance pool thus costs will drop. We saw the same thing happen when they allowed the auto insurance industry to sell across state lines. This will be an even larger impact due to more people buying insurance and there will be more competition.
Actually when you look at it the AHA is just a big ol present tied up in a bow for the insurance companies.

The way things stand now, when the uninsured can go to the ER and not pay for their treatment, the hospital and doctors just pass that loss on to the rest of us in the form of higher charges. If you don't think you are not already paying for the medical treatment of others you are delusional. At least with AHA everybody will be responsible for obtaining coverage for themselves.

The cost of healthcare in the US is the highest in the world and we are number 37 in quality of care. I don't believe AHA is a perfect answer but it is a hell of a lot better than what we have at present.

**silversides**

They want the elderly medicated to the point where they lay around like slugs. Nursing homes are paid to take care of the elderly. They can start doing their job...

**AC488** I got no balls User ID: 488 08-19-2012 08:38 PM

The Lucky AC Wrote:

I spoke with a nurse from a local nursing home here in Louisiana, she told me her patients painkiller prescriptions are no longer being covered by Medicare. The patients are all suffering from withdrawals and the staff there is not equipped to deal with it.

Bobby Jindal turned down the AHA and Louisiana lost 5 million in Medicare funding because of it. Louisiana is so poor we receive over 60 cents on ever dollar we spend on Medicare from the federal government. The main reason he turned this down was in hopes of getting the VP nomination from Mitt.

I suggest you check on your elderly if you live in a state where your Republican governor turned down the AHA.

Even before this Jindal had made deep cuts into the LSU Medical System which provides low cost care to the uninsured. A friend went to the ER of one recently while suffering a stroke, they had no room in the ICU or a bed on a floor for him so they put him on a cot in the ER for 24 hours to watch him. What he witnessed that night was gorilla health care. A 69 year old woman that has worked as a cook all her life came in with a broken leg. They had no staff to x-ray her so they could not put a cast on her, they were going to give her crutches and a boot but there were none to be found, so the doctors made a homemade splint for her and told her to go to another hospital 150 miles away. They also had no pediatrics staff available, so if you had a sick baby you were out of luck.

This is what our system of medical care has given us. Life saving medical care should not only be for those that can afford a $500 a month premium or are lucky enough to have coverage provided by your employer.

This is what 60 years of the insurance racquet running our medical system has given us. Insurance companies are not in the business of providing health care they are in the business of denying health care.

I hear people say they don't want to pay for someone else's health care, well when people have to seek emergency care and are unable to pay, we all pay for it in the form of higher health care costs. So you end up paying for it one way or the other. Why not provide them preventive health care and bring down the costs? We would have a healthier and stronger nation. When socialized medicine was introduced in Europe employers found there were significant fewer sick days taken resulting in huge savings, not to mention healthier and happier more productive workers.

When the AHA goes into effect in 2014 the cost of insurance premiums will drop. There will be more people in the insurance pool thus costs will drop. We saw the same thing happen when they allowed the auto insurance industry to sell across state lines. This will be an even larger impact due to more people buying insurance and there will be more competition.
Actually when you look at it the AHA is just a big ol present tied up in a bow for the insurance companies.

The way things stand now, when the uninsured can go to the ER and not pay for their treatment, the hospital and doctors just pass that loss on to the rest of us in the form of higher charges. If you don't think you are not already paying for the medical treatment of others you are delusional. At least with AHA everybody will be responsible for obtaining coverage for themselves.

The cost of healthcare in the US is the highest in the world and we are number 37 in quality of care. I don't believe AHA is a perfect answer but it is a hell of a lot better than what we have at present.

So the gov refusing to let obama blackmail his state is a bad thing?

Dumbass

obama is the one witholding the funds to buy their medication.
He wants them all dead and off SS and medicare anyway.

**Karu** · (This post was last modified: 08-19-2012 08:45 PM by Karu.)

Is this the way people will be forced into accepting oba-care? There needs to be a way of providing pain meds for our elderly who cannot afford them. Isn't anyone standing up for those who cannot defend themselves?

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 115276 08-19-2012 08:48 PM

silversides Wrote:

They want the elderly medicated to the point where they lay around like slugs. Nursing homes are paid to take care of the elderly. They can start doing their job...

If you have EVER spent any time in a Nursing Home you would know that they DO NOT take care of the Elderly.

Nursing Homes are DISGUSTING.

**Karu**

**silversides**

LoP Guest Wrote:

silversides Wrote:
They want the elderly medicated to the point where they lay around like slugs. Nursing homes are paid to take care of the elderly. They can start doing their job...

If you have EVER spent any time in a Nursing Home you would know that they DO NOT take care of the Elderly.

Nursing Homes are DISGUSTING.

Nursing Homes are DISGUSTING. I have spent a lot of time in nursing homes. They like to over medicate people so that they stay asleep in thier beds and no one has to deal with them. If they are real trouble they start giving them morphine...

**The Lucky AC** Everything in life is luck User ID: 888 08-19-2012 10:06 PM

Karu Wrote:

Is this the way people will be forced into accepting oba-care? There needs to be a way of providing pain meds for our elderly who cannot afford them. Isn't anyone standing up for those who cannot defend themselves?

The nurses are too scared to speak out for fear of losing their jobs. They are very upset and concerned about their patients, hopefully someone will have enough and speak out.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 66934 08-19-2012 10:18 PM

It was probably the TOXIC DRUGS THEY WERE PRESCRIBED that put them in that nursing home in the first place.

Bobby Jindal is a whore for the Roman Empire, along with many others in Washington who have sold humanity out so the scum at the top can steal MEDICARE funds.
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f*ck THEM ALL!

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 66934 08-19-2012 10:32 PM

silversides Wrote:

LoP Guest Wrote:
silversides Wrote:
They want the elderly medicated to the point where they lay around like slugs. Nursing homes are paid to take care of the elderly. They can start doing their job...

If you have EVER spent any time in a Nursing Home you would know that they DO NOT take care of the Elderly.

Nursing Homes are DISGUSTING.

Nursing Homes are DISGUSTING. I have spent a lot of time in nursing homes. They like to over medicate people so that they stay asleep in thier beds and no one has to deal with them. If they are real trouble they start giving them morphine...

yup.... eventually they die from infections from bed sores or pneumonia. What a f*cking great country this is eh? How dare this government allow and provide 'them' the means and money to keep running around the world 'crusading' for 'their' satanic democracy and social justice.

Social justice will be the day these bastards suffer the same way the elderly in this country are made to suffer because the Joe Biden's and Bobby Jindal's of the world declare them useless to society, no longer able to provide the 'elite' a life.

**Karu**

The Lucky AC Wrote:

Karu Wrote:
Is this the way people will be forced into accepting oba-care? There needs to be a way of providing pain meds for our elderly who cannot afford them. Isn't anyone standing up for those who cannot defend themselves?

The nurses are too scared to speak out for fear of losing their jobs. They are very upset and concerned about their patients, hopefully someone will have enough and speak out.

This news needs to go viral and let everybody know how these elderly people are suffering.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 79192 08-19-2012 11:02 PM

Wow, Bobby Jindal murdering the elderly. Joining the granny killer ranks with Paul Ryan.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 79192 08-19-2012 11:05 PM

LoP Guest Wrote:

silversides Wrote:
They want the elderly medicated to the point where they lay around like slugs. Nursing homes are paid to take care of the elderly. They can start doing their job...

If you have EVER spent any time in a Nursing Home you would know that they DO NOT take care of the Elderly.

Nursing Homes are DISGUSTING.

Yes, they don't bathe them or wash their hair. They don't feed them good nutritious food to keep their health from declining even more. They don't keep them active to get some much needed exercise.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 52828 08-19-2012 11:13 PM

Terrible to think of them needlessly suffering. Tissue

And all for the almighty $$$.

Then again, some of them might get better once off the meds.

It's a big possibility that most of us will be in their shoes one day.

I'm petrified of growing old and helpless.

**Karu**

LoP Guest Wrote:

Terrible to think of them needlessly suffering.

And all for the almighty $$$.

Then again, some of them might get better once off the meds.

It's a big possibility that most of us will be in their shoes one day.

I'm petrified of growing old and helpless.