August 26, 2009, - 12:36 pm
You Won’t Get TedCare Under ObamaCare: Ted Kennedy’s Brain Cancer Dream Team (Private Planes, Copters, Police Escorts, Mozart of Brain Surgeons)
In June, Vanity Fair ran excerpts from, “Ted Kennedy: The Dream That Never Died,” a book by Edward M. Klein. The excerpts describe some of the healthcare Senator Edward Kennedy got to treat his cancer: police escorts to the hospital, a team of the world’s top brain and oncology surgeons, including one who was tracked to the airport, where he was about to leave for a conference in Canada. Instead, he jumped on a plane to treat Mary Jo Kopechne’s killer.
Here’s more of what Ted Kennedy got that you won’t . . . certainly not under ObamaCare:
Paramedics lifted the overweight senator onto a gurney, hooked him up to oxygen, and slid him into the back of an ambulance. The ambulance and a police cruiser raced down South Street to Cape Cod Hospital. . . .
Before the ambulance pulled up, she had arranged for the Senator to be transported from the Cape to Massachusetts General Hospital, called his Senate staff to put in place a crisis management team. . . .
In the emergency room at Cape Cod Hospital, the doctors examined Kennedy for almost two hours and concluded that he had suffered two seizures, little electrical storms in the brain, rather than a stroke, which kills brain tissue and can lead to permanent paralysis. He was put back into the ambulance for the three-minute trip to Barnstable Municipal Airport. There a twin-engine medevac helicopter was standing by, ready to airlift him to Boston.
In less than half an hour, the chopper touched down on the roof of Massachusetts General, where Dr. Larry Ronan, the senator’s longtime primary-care physician, was an internist. . . .
“The meeting on May 30 was extraordinary in at least two ways,” wrote Lawrence K. Altman, M.D., the chief medical correspondent of The New York Times. “One was the ability of a powerful patient—in this case, a scion of a legendary political family and the chairman of the Senate’s health committee—to summon noted consultants to learn about the latest therapy and research findings. The second was his efficiency in quickly convening more than a dozen experts from at least six academic centers. Some flew to Boston. Others participated by telephone after receiving pertinent test results and other medical records.” . . .
And so the senator’s medical adviser put in a call to Dr. Allan H. Friedman, co-director of the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center, at Duke University. The 60-year-old doctor was considered by many of his colleagues to be the Mozart of brain surgeons. He was preparing to take off for a long-planned conference in Canada when the medical adviser reached him at the airport. He told him that Senator Kennedy had agreed to have his cancerous brain tumor removed surgically, and they wanted the best neurosurgeon in the country to perform the operation.
Three days later, on Monday, June 2, 2008, after Dr. Friedman clipped a small area of hair from the senator’s head, Kennedy was wheeled into the operating room where he was to undergo a procedure called “awake surgery.”
Think you’ll get this kind of treatment under ObamaCare?
Think again. The Mozart of brain surgeons, like Ted Kennedy got?
You won’t even get the garage band of brain surgeons’ drummer.
Tags: Allan H. Friedman Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center, Dr. Larry Ronan, Duke University, Edward Kennedy, Edward M. Klein, June, Larence K. Altman, Mozart of Brain Surgeons, obamacare, Senator, Ted Kennedy, Ted Kennedy: The Dream That Never Died, TedCare, Vanity Fair
This article proves what money can get. IF you have money in the present system you can get anything. If you do not have money in this present system you get a lot less. This is the way Obamacare will continue to work as if you have a plan now you can have that SAME plan under Obamacare. The people who have nothing now that the people paying private insurance subsidize will be paying less to subsidize those without insurance.
How hard is this for you to grasp???
Obamacare=Congreessional/US Government worker plan
ALSO….
Obamacare=plan for uninsured so their care costs less. Care done on an ad-hoc basis ALWAYS costs MORE which is why opposing Health Care Reform is playing into the insurance companies hands. THEY WANT NO REFORM as they see prices double over the past 10 years MEANWHILE they have BILLIONS in profit.
If you have a plan now you will be able to keep it.
If you have no plan the cost to provide you care will be less in that you WILL have a plan. This is the concept of insurance.
By PRINCIPLE if you disagree with Obamacare you should NOT HAVE ANY INSURANCE because when you do have insurance you are proving that a plan (Socialized loss over a big group) is a cheaper way to pay for insurance. Otherwise you would pay all costs out of pocket.
Prove Obamacare is wrong…pay ALL of your medical costs out of pocket. If not you are a hypocrite.
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JoeWo on August 26, 2009 at 12:54 pm