Health Care....

I haven't really touched on Health Care Reform yet, but I had a perfect example forwarded to me today. I'm just going to post my brother in law Eric Otterness' story here, as it illustrates the failures inherent in government involvement with any system but specifically healthcare. (Thanks Eric, I couldn't have said it better myself. You are an upstanding American, and I'm honored to call you brother). Eric is the owner of a funeral home here in MO.

"It was pointed out to me again this morning why we should all be so very happy to have the government running everything from car business to banking business to insurance business to healthcare business...

I got a phone call at 5:45 yesterday, 9-4-09 in which a VA hospital employee asked me how to spell my business' name and informed me that I would be receiving a call regarding someone who had passed away. Turns out this person passed away at 5:02 p.m. Would anyone care to guess what time I was called to be informed that the body was released? How about 12:20 a.m.? That's right, 7.5 hours later and at TWELVE TWENTY a.m. If they had called in a punctual manner, I could have had the body picked up, embalmed, and made the trip to KC and back, before that time! To make matters worse, this person explained that they had been so "busy that we had to shut down our emergency room." WHAT? A major hospital shutting down it's emergency room? AND a hospital that's supposed to be caring for our VETERANS???

I'm SO glad to know that we will soon be a socialist nation so that EVERY aspect of our lives can be handled in such an efficient manner. Anyone want to bet on whether this gal who had "to do all of the paperwork" stopped for her lunch break, as well as her mandated 15 minute breaks every 2 hours... at a time that they were so busy they had to close the E. R.?

This was a VA hospital. The VA just one of the examples they use to justify the coming takeover of healthcare. This is the type of inefficiency and ineptitude involved when the hospital doesn't have to run a profit. Or I guess we could be like the President and liken it to the Post Office.... Paragon of efficiency, the post office. Need I go on?