LTE: Heart Transplant under Medicare rails against Socialist Medicine

[RamboLiberal]

Health care is fine

I had a heart transplant at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center on Dec. 5, 1994, and since then I have had few serious medical problems and have lived a wonderful, healthy life. I was on the heart transplant waiting list only one week and had the surgery by world-class surgeons. My post-transplant life could not have been better. I am covered by SecurityBlue and Medicare at a cost to me of about $2,000 per year. This also covers huge medicine expenses.

Patients come from all over the world because their socialized medicine plans won't cover them. I am certain that I would not receive this treatment under socialized medicine.

I am now 80 years old and received the heart at age 65. I was born in Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh, in 1929 and have lived in Pittsburgh all of my life.

We have the best health system in the history of the world! Why change now? We need only to make some minor adjustments. European socialized medicine is not the answer.

J. RONALD GAINSFORD
Ross

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09208/986588-110.stm#ixzz0MUhgdaNQ

I had a good chuckle over this one while eating lunch. J. Ronald I hate to tell you Medicare is socialistic medicine!

[Fumesucker]

1. LOL... K&R n/t

[Gormy Cuss]

2. Mr. Gainsford's heart might fail if someone tells him that.

Cognitive dissonance..
:banghead:

[L0oniX]

3. Hell yea ...everyone can pay $2000 a year when they are 80 ...no problem for rich mutha fuckas.

[SoCalNative]

5. It's not that much

only comes out to a little over $166/month. And the majority of it is automatically deducted from your monthly checks anyway.

Besides, you don't think any kind of universal health care plan won't cost AT LEAST that?

[sandnsea]

4. My mother had hers in 1989, Medicare didn't pay

Neither did Medicaid. The hospital donated that one day of service, the surgeon donated his time, and then Medicare and Medicaid stepped in the next day. Somewhat. Arkansas medicaid only paid for 3 prescriptions, so my mothers life was always stressful trying to figure out how to pay for the other 5, 6, 7, I don't know how many a month.

And yes Medicare is socialized medicine.

[Faryn Balyncd]

6. K & R

[Ian David]

7. J. Ronald Gainsford got a heart transplant but needed a brain transplant. n/t

[Raineyb]

8. Since he doesn't like socialized medicine will he be giving the heart back?

It appears that he doesn't use it anyway.

[nashville_brook]

9. +1

[drm604]

10. No offense to Mr. Gainsford intended AT ALL

and I'm very happy that he's had such success with his heart transplant, but this is the kind of ignorance that we're up against.

If he doesn't realize that Medicare is socialized medicine (and SecurityBlue is Medicare) then what does he think socialized medicine is?

[Posteritatis]

12. He probably thinks it involves harvesting organs from the kulaks or something. (nt)

[readmoreoften]

14. +1

harvesting organs from kulaks :rofl:

[drm604]

15. ROFL. I seriously doubt that he even knows what a kulak was.

Hell, I had to go to wikipedia myself to find out. :blush:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulak

[progressoid]

11. Typical.

That's exactly the kind of stupid that the RW media counts on.

[Selatius]

13. His stupidity is painful to see.

This is a perfect example of propaganda in action. If you can make them believe up is down, you can make them believe anything.

[Mariana]

16. He probably also thinks all his Social Security checks

are from his personal account into which his own SS taxes were deposited. Lots of people don't realize that it's a pay-as-you-go system and think they're just getting their own money back.