Posted by
Scott Slater on Wednesday, December 02, 2009 3:58:06 AM
By Scott Finch-Slater
I’ve always known if I had a serious medical condition I would receive the best health care in the entire world. Although now I know thousands of nit wits think I’m giving my insurance company huge profits. Sure while my insurance company paid most of my charges the other fact is it paid a lot of the bill for those who had no insurance.
Well That serious condition happened yesterday and gave me the care we as Americans know to expect but WILL lose under Obama/PedopsyCare.
That emergency that happened to me yesterday, a heart attack, I’ve known in my 55 years would get me straight to intensive care- no delay. In my case I drove myself to the emergency room because while I refer to myself as frugal, my friends and family believe me to be deluded in frugality and call me a cheapskate.
They are probably right and yesterday morning several of the nurses where I work were adamant I go to the emergency room. “How much do you think the charge might be at the ER and what about if I’m admitted,” I asked. The nurses as if they had practiced this very situation gave me that nurse look while squeezing my wrist for a pulse at the same time. I know that look because I saw it once on the movie One Flew over the Cuckoo’s nest. The pointed-mean-faced nurse was reaching for my neck- she said was to check my carotid pulse. That scared me so bad, I jumped up and ran. Everyone wanted to call 911, but I knew if that happened I’d have to get a part-time job at $600. an hour to pay it off. In the end I drove myself to the hospital and was admitted and received the best treatment. NOTE, I have no recollection how I got there and If I killed anyone on the way, I’m really sorry.
Fast forward under Obama/Pedopsy Care here’s how this whole situation would have evolved:
1) Consultation with the nurses I said what I thought I believed to be a heart attack, $150.00 because I consulted fellow state employees.
2) Their recommendation that I go to the ER- $200.00 because they took 5 additional minutes to recommended 911
then took my blood pressure-damn another $50.00
3) Being frugal and trusting God to give me enough time
To drive myself to the ER knowing the ambulance would have
Bankrupted me, I did know Obama/PedopsyCare wouldn’t
have covered me because I was still breathing.
I was cleared as having a cardiac “event” but then I wished I’d expired because Obama/PedopsyCare wouldn’t have approved payment for the whole thing; funerals are on the families and not covered by Obama/PedopsyCare
So please do me a favor after another cardiac event if you’re heading up I-5 and see a 55 year old bald guy on either the off or on ramp help me out please, because the sign I’m holding says get me an appointment with the death panel