August 13, 2009
A sponge bob bandaid for a rattlesnake bite- govt. run healthcare in SD
Imagine getting bit by a rattlesnake, sitting until 1 AM in an Indian Health Services hospital, and getting sent home with only a Sponge Bob bandaid because they couldn't get you to a Sioux Falls hospital. That's what happened two weeks ago to Gerald Black Bear Jr. here in South Dakota. His condition worsened, his wife took him to a Rapid City hospital and it took five injections on anti-venom for him to recover. That's what government-run health care is like here in South Dakota.
Here's the full story via a little video clip - I've been goofing around this summer with my new Flip Video camera and I decided this afternoon to interview Pastor Gabe Medicine Eagle about Indian Health Care. Pastor Gabe is running for tribal council in the August 27 election on the Rosebud reservation. Pray for him - he's a key leader in native country here. God has used him to bring hope to people who have had a 150 years of unfulfilled promises from the UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. Gabe will tell you… don't listen to a word the Great White Chief in Washington says - he's never delivered - so don't expect him to now. And, as I noted in the previous post, "If they can't come up with money to provide decent health care for 4.5 million Native Americans do you think they can take care of 300 million more?"
Comments on A sponge bob bandaid for a rattlesnake bite- govt. run healthcare in SD »
Travis @ 3:01 pm
Why does it seem that people are unable to think? Why can't they, those that are in favor of public health care, seem to give examples of existing government programs that are run well?
I am fairly comfortable asserting that even the “Federal Governments Core Competencies”, (that may qualify for oxymoron of the year), are unbelievably inefficient, even at the smallest, most manageable levels.
How can the elite overtly corrupt and inefficient bureaucracy, (Congress), run a program that is so instrumental to every single American Citizen? Especially since Health Care has very intricate levels of complexity that the “Elite in DC”, (now I am competing for the oxymoron award), definitely cannot handle, much less even attempt to understand!
Why don't all of the supporters ask themselves, if the government run programs like Social Security, Medicare / Medicaid, or Single Payer Health Care are so good, then why do those who legislate the very same programs they mandate us to live by, give themselves separate, (more beneficial), programs?
Maybe the answer is because they know that the systems they vote in for us really do suck, and they do not want to be forever bound to any of them!
Sounds like good old hypocrisy to me, how about you?