I can’t wait until we get government-run healthcare here! Look what we have to look forward to -
AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD girl starved to death after developing such a fear of dentists she refused to eat, an inquest heard yesterday.
Sophie Waller underwent an operation to remove her milk teeth after she stopped eating or speaking because of pain in one of them.Doctors decided to remove all eight of the milk teeth so she would not have to undergo repeat operations. However, the inquest was told that after she was discharged she continued to refuse to eat solid food.
Her parents, Janet and Richard, from St Dennis, Cornwall, said they told doctors Sophie was only consuming small amounts of yoghurt, fruit and “build up” drinks prescribed by a GP and were told she would be “OK”.
A week later Sophie was so emaciated they could see her spine through her back and her hair was falling out.
On 28 November, Mrs Waller said, the hospital refused to take Sophie back, and after speaking to Dr Davison she was advised to contact her GP, who prescribed “build-up drinks” over the phone but did not see and examine Sophie.
Would an American parent have passively accepted that refusal? I would have taken my child to the nearest ER, and if they paid no attention I’d have found someone else who would. But if there is only one provider, and that provider rejects you, what can you do? The American health care system is not perfect, but it’s far better than this.
I look at the health provisions in this “stimulus” bill and shudder. I heard a couple of Senators interviewed and when asked about the health care provisions in the bill they were totally unaware of what was even in the bill. “These things will be addressed”, right, they were really addressed. Garbage. If people think fighting an insurance company over health care is hard just wait until they have to fight the government.
I have to admit that the past three weeks have so changed my country. I wonder at times just where the country I love is going, where it has gone.