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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