Sick and Sicker

 

I'm going to get personal here and I hope you'll forgive me. Here in America, we're quite adamant about our "space" bubbles. These bubbles aren't just physical in nature - they're emotional as well. Americans haven't coined the acronym "TMI" (too much information) for no reason at all. Despite Maury Povich, Dr. Phil, and a host of other entertainers who feed on our basest attributes as human beings, for the most part, Americans don't want others up in our face or in our business - either physically or emotionally.

But I'm going to have to go all Dr. Phil on you in order to make my point about the danger we face as a nation if the Supreme Court doesn't resoundingly strike Obamacare down and toss it into the dung heap where it belongs. It's going to be a long wait until they offer their decision on whether or not a government bureaucrat has the right to tell you what, where, and how much health care you can obtain. Now is not the time to sit back and say nothing. These nine justices need to know what the American people think about this draconian law that steals essential freedom from each and every one of us.

Are you tired of hearing about this issue? Don't be... your health and your life depends on you being informed.

Socialized medicine is nothing new. Some form has been around in Europe since the late 1800s where it has since grown into a system administered by the government in many western nations. In fact, the United States is pretty much the last hold-out in the industrialized world, although we have forms of it through Medicare and Medicaid programs.

My adoptive mother was from one of those European countries. You probably wonder why I preface her description with "adoptive." She was my mother, as I knew no other. But one moment in time set the wheels in motion for me to be placed with the American family I became daughter to. It was 1957, and my mother gave birth to twins in a Danish hospital. They were premature, a little more than 7 months along in the pregnancy.

They both died within 36 hours.

Any discussion of those babies always ended with the statement, "If they had been born in the United States, they would have lived. U.S. medicine was so much better than what we had."

Because their twins died, my parents would eventually track all over Europe and the Middle East where my Army father was stationed, looking for a child to adopt. They found me, five days old, at the American Embassy hospital in Beirut, Lebanon in 1961 and the rest is history.

But that story of dead babies wasn't my only encounter with socialized medicine. My mother's family was an adventurous sort, and her brother emigrated from Denmark to Australia in his early twenties. He married and raised a family there.

Through the years I had chance to compare my health experiences with my aunt's. I won't go into the gory details. Suffice it to say I had female trouble... lots of it. Endometriosis, adenomyosis, ovarian cysts... you name it. I had doctors pooh-pooh me out of their office as some type of emotionally overwrought woman when I came to them in pain. However, I was determined to find a doctor who would listen to me because I knew what I was suffering was not in my head. (At that time OB-GYNs were not as in tune to those maladies as they are today.)

I had a plethora of doctors to choose from, even in a small southern community. I didn't have to wait weeks or months for an appointment, even as I went from one doctor to another. When I finally found one who would take the time to listen to me (and who, after examination, was horrified the other doctors I had visited had glossed over my symptoms), my options and treatment choices were made available to me... immediately. Treatment started within days. When that failed, surgery was scheduled and performed--again, within days.

Compare that to my aunt in Australia with their socialized medicine service structure. Same symptoms, same diseases, unbearable pain. She waited months just to visit the doctor. She waited months for testing. She waited nearly two years for surgery.

In total she experienced over three years of pain and agony.

My mother-in-law is 87 years old. Two years ago arthritis had finally taken its toll on her hips. She made a doctor's appointment, researched her options, and decided on hip replacement surgery. Within one year she had both hips replaced and is back to mowing her yard and enjoying life.

At the same time my mother-in-law was experiencing the pain of deteriorated joints, my uncle was as well. He was little younger, in his sixties, but he had been an athlete all his life. The year he was diagnosed with hip degeneration (about the same time as my mother-in-law), he had participated in a triathlon event in his age group. At 6'6 and a solid 200+ pounds of sheer muscle, my uncle (a carpenter and building contractor by trade) never met a challenge he couldn't face.

Waiting for hip surgery about did him in. He was in excruciating pain for two years waiting for his spot on the roster. As of this writing, two years after his diagnosis and being put on a waiting list, he is finally recuperating from his hip surgery.

In two years, the pain of his condition deteriorated his general health and aged him years.

This is the system your government bureaucrats want to give you, the American people. But when you're dealing with lying legislators and lawyers and doctors and pharmaceutical companies with agendas, it's hard to know what is truth and what isn't. Wouldn't you like to hear from someone (other than Michael Moore with his silver spoon of privilege) willing to give you the unvarnished facts about what life is like when socialized medicine invades your country? Our legislators tout the Canadian system as one we need to emulate.

But do we really?

Wouldn't you like to hear from someone in the trenches who has no political agenda? Wouldn't you like to put a face to the people affected by a system that is heartless to its very core? Well now you can when you purchase the video Sick and Sicker. Logan Darrow Clements shows what happens when "the government becomes your doctor," using licensed news footage from Canadian TV, interviews with doctors, patients, journalists, a health minister, a member of Parliament, a doctor who went on a hunger strike, as well as the producer's own Canadian relatives.

You will see what happens when red tape, government elitists, and health boards sit in judgment over individual health care decisions. You will meet people who should easily survive their diseases, wasting away toward certain death because of decisions made by nameless, faceless, entities. Their stories are heartbreaking, tragic, and outrageous.

Sick and Sicker presents the true face of socialized medicine. It shows normal, everyday people who have had to face jail time and bankruptcy in pursuing the care they need. It shows government elites bypassing the very system they foist on the masses in their quest for treatment. It shows the false security and the cruel misery that is part and parcel of the socialized medical system.

Don't let the politicians, the mega-corporations, unions, associations, or any other group present you with the rosy picture that universal health care coverage means unlimited health care choices and availability.

It's a lie. The moment universal health care is implemented, the rationing begins. Order your copy of Sick and Sicker today, share it with your friends, and present it in your churches. Fight to keep Washington D.C. out of your health care decisions.

Hanne Moon
Editor, Off the Grid News



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