Government health care for Murtha

[Lemon law]

Hold on here, have we even demonstrated it was doctor incompetence? All we have is a situation where it might have been. Just because complications later developed in what should have been a relatively routine operation.

Maybe it might have been a case where a scalpel nicked the intestine and went unnoticed. Or the doctor might have sewed onto a relatively weak part of the intestine and it just later failed. And even if the doctor had not done the operation, that weak part of the intestine would have failed equally fast.

So I submit we need that final autopsy before we rush to judgment. We can expect doctors to be competent, but we cannot expect them to be clairvoyant.

 

[HumblePie]

wow, inflammatory troll OP post. If gubbermant run hospitals were so bad, every time one of our military members stops into the base clinic or hospital for a checkup, they should be all coming out on a stretcher right?

Actually, if you look at the track record of government run hospitals with fatal mistakes due to malpractice versus private ones, you might be in for an eye opener. Why? The military hospitals are actually SAFER. Why? Because if Docs there screw up bad enough, they don't get sued. Instead they go to JAIL! A one way ticket to Levenworth to break down rocks.

On top of that the health care bill has nothing to do with governments running hospitals for the public. People trying to use lies for scare tactics really piss me off.

Now I am first to admit that most VA hospitals I've been to are bogged down, but I'm not sure if that is the incompetence of the administration or that most are severely overburdened. I lean more to the latter though. However, I hate the detractors that say, anything run by the gubbermant is run poorly and incompetently. Which means anything run by the government, including the military are so badly incompetent that nothing can ever be done. This is why we have no roads, no schools, no water, no freedom, no..... oh wait, we DO have those things. Yah there are hiccups in some programs. Yah there are buffoons, pricks, sociopaths, and incompetent morons in supervisor/manager positions in any government ran program or service. Just like there are the SAME set of people in basically every privatized industry as well. I mean, name one working person alive in the US that hasn't had that one asshole boss, teacher, or knew of one that typically screwed things over, made life miserable for those around them, and somehow still was in the position they were in. Can anyone here tell me they never have met someone like that in a "private" world?