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I heard about this ad from the California Nurses Association they purchased. They use Dick Cheney as a centerpiece for what's wrong with the Medicare system today. The ad begins "The patient’s history and prognosis were grim: four heart attacks, quadruple bypass surgery, angioplasty, an implanted defibrillator and now an emergency procedure to treat an irregular heartbeat."
It seems our California nurses feel that patients (especially Vice Presidential patients) can predict their heart attacks occur and determine their care when it is rendered. They assume that if this happened to anyone else, "they'd be dead."
Nothing could be further from the truth.
But it does not make for sensationalist ads. Instead, they want House Resolution 676 supported by our presidential candidates, arguing for "Medicare for all" as the answer to our healthcare crisis. As if it were free. No holes barred. Pay for everything. Nothing but the best. Expand our governmental bureaucracy to included every man, woman, and child, with complete medical, dental, vision, and long-term care. Hell, throw in a Rolls Royce for your driveway, too!
As if it's all free. You can have ANYTHING! Yee-hah! We're ENTITLED! Just like the Vice President!
Don't look at how we got where we are. Nope. Just more of the same, ONLY BIGGER!