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re: Why can't people understand that socialized medicine will ultimately fail?
Posted on 3/10/17 at 10:06 am to CoachChappy
Posted on 3/10/17 at 10:06 am to CoachChappy
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My uncle's best friend from England died due to the socialized medicine over there
Anecdotal evidence is anecdotal.
My grandmother from Louisiana died due to privatized medicine over here. She was having a pacemaker put in, and when they looed up the tables to see what her life expectancy should be at 65, the table told them she could be expected to live 10 more years, so they only put a ten-year battery in. 11 years later when the battery failed, she was still driving, still preparing dinner for her elderly friends, and still travelling to visit her great grandchildren. The doctors determined, however, that she wouldn't survive the surgery to replace the battery, so they didn't. And she died.
Apparently no one cares about our privatized death panels, they just care about make-believe government ones.
But anecdotal evidence is anecdotal.
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Posted on 3/10/17 at 10:20 am to WildTchoupitoulas
quote:10 years is typical for pacemaker battery life. That doesn't sound like malpractice
Anecdotal evidence is anecdotal.
My grandmother from Louisiana died due to privatized medicine over here. She was having a pacemaker put in, and when they looed up the tables to see what her life expectancy should be at 65, the table told them she could be expected to live 10 more years, so they only put a ten-year battery in. 11 years later when the battery failed, she was still driving, still preparing dinner for her elderly friends, and still travelling to visit her great grandchildren. The doctors determined, however, that she wouldn't survive the surgery to replace the battery, so they didn't. And she died.
Apparently no one cares about our privatized death panels, they just care about make-believe government ones.
But anecdotal evidence is anecdotal.
edit: also, battery life varies from patient to patient, even if they have the same battery model
This post was edited on 3/10/17 at 10:23 am
Posted on 3/10/17 at 10:43 am to WildTchoupitoulas
quote:Sorry.
The doctors determined, however, that she wouldn't survive the surgery to replace the battery, so they didn't. And she died.
But that didn't happen WT.
May have involved valvular heart disease or nonstentable coronary occlusion or something else. However, changing a pacemaker battery is a relatively innocuous procedure. It's done under local anesthesia. Unless they were in extremis, no one would be denied a PCM battery change based on survivability.
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