Comments for The unintentional consequences of Luigi Mangione | Eastern North Carolina Now

Sean Hannity mentioned a recent case from Canada's horrendous health care system that shows why Canadaians who have the money to do so often come to the US for medical care.

A 60 year old woman needed a knee replacement, a common and routine surgery in the US which can be scheduled in a matter of weeks. In Canada, she had a six YEAR waiting list during which her condition deteriorated and she suffered considerably increased pain. She finally got her surgery, but she had to be transfered to another facility to have the wound from the surgery closed and that facility had no beds available. She had to wait EIGHT DAYS with an open wound before a bed opened to have it closed. By then, her flesh had started dying. She had to have the leg amputated.

That is how government run health care works, and it is a very evil system. CAnada and the UK are the same. Waiting lists kill and also cause other adverse health outcomes.

Commented: Thursday, December 19th, 2024 @ 11:32 am By: Rino Hunter

Comrade Bobbie is going full socialist on us on healthcare. Is that any surprise?

Socialized medicine kills with its lengthy waiting lists. In the UK, most doctors in the socialized National Health Service get private medical insurance so that they can get good and timely care in the parallel private health system because they know first hand how bad the socialized system is. Australia has a similar parallel system, but Canada does not, leading many Canadians to seek decent and timely medical care in the US.

I remember an article a couple of years ago in one of the British newspaper about three men all diagnosed about the same time with the same type of cancer at the same stage. One mortgaged his house and paid cash through a private hospital in the UK. He was cured. Another went abroad (India or Turkey if memory serves) to get treatment at a much cheaper cost. He was cured. The third waited his turn on the National Health Service waiting list. When they got to him, his results showed the cancer had progressed too far and was inoperable. He died. That is how waiting lists kill in socialized medicine.

Commented: Wednesday, December 18th, 2024 @ 7:30 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Prior to Obmmacare, employer based health insurance was written for all employees of each company, and those denial rates on claims were still 1% to 2%.

As far as actualial tables and individual insurance, that is a matter of fairness to customers. Consider life insurance; should a person 30 years old in good health pay the same rates as someone 60 years old with cancer? Or auto insurance; should someone with no driving convictions pay the same auto insurance rates as someone with a string of DWI's and speeding tickets? Of course NOT.

Commented: Wednesday, December 18th, 2024 @ 2:39 pm By: John Steed

Before Obamacare, insurance denials were exceedingly rare, between 1% and 2% of claims, and that was even true of United Healthcare, which now has a 31% denial rate. Obamacare did a lot of negative things to health care, and driving many insurance companies out of the health insurance business was one of them. Consumers now suffer from the lack of competition caused by Obamacare. But that was all by design. Obamacare was intended by its creators to gum up health care to the point that the public would buy socialized medicine, which is even worse.

Commented: Wednesday, December 18th, 2024 @ 11:38 am By: John Steed

What is the generic symbol of healthcare?; The caduceus

What is the caduceus?; Not what they tell you.

-And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.

And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.

Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.

And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.

And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.

“If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?

And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.“

No medical professional, hospital, or copious amount of insurance are able to save anyone. If we are to suffer in the flesh, it is written we are blessed. As Christ suffered, so too shall we. The servant is not greater than the master. It is for our own sake, said the Lord, that the garden brings forth thorns.

Commented: Wednesday, December 18th, 2024 @ 9:56 am By: Will Simmons

Didn't Obamacare actually come from Romneycare?

A Neo-Con is no different than a radical leftist when you get down to it.

Commented: Monday, December 16th, 2024 @ 2:23 pm By: John Valley

BOlshevik Bob would have probably preferred if Mangiione had used a bomb and blown up a lot of people, like he originally planned instead of a gun that only killed one.

Bad guys are going to find a way to do bad acts, and it is better for everyone else if the body count is low. This was another of those mental health issues, not a gun issue.

Commented: Monday, December 16th, 2024 @ 9:06 am By: Conservative Voter