National Health Care is No Care!

For those kooks, Nuts and Fruitcakes that are calling for National Health Care have to be out of their Mind. In the years l959-l961, While Serving the United States Air force I along with my wife and five children, served at an Air force base located just outside of London England As a smaller base, we did only had a Medical Clinic as opposed to a full service Hospital. If Hospital care was required, the person needing such care had to be flown to Germany to get it. As a result of my assignment, I, along with my family, had considerable experience with Nation Health care. From my experiences, I have to say: ONLY A DAM FOOL WOULD WANT TO HAVE IT BECOME A REALITY HERE IN AMERICA. THERE IS AN OLD AXIOM: BEWARE OF WHAT YOU ASK FOR OR YOU JUST MIGHT GET IT! IN MY 21 YEARS OF SERVICE TO MY COUNTRY--I CAN TELL YOU THIS--WE, HAD THE BEST MEDICAL SYSTEM IN THE WORLD, UNTIL THESE DUUMBUTT KNOW NOTHING POLITICOS, FOR SELF-SERVING PURPOSES, STARTED TO MEDDLE WITH IT. National health care,in England, in the years I served there, I was to witness just what it was--and it wasn't good. For example: Health care service is not comparable to going to a doctor's office here in America. Doctor's in England, did not have offices with plush waiting rooms, toilets, drinking facilities and such. Nor did you make an appointment to see a doctor. The Doctors there, worked out of their homes. To go to one for service--you went to his house and got into line and waited until your turn came up--meaning waiting for many hours, out in the cold, the rain or what have you. You did not get to sit in a waiting room, in a comfortable chair--you stood in line waiting you turn to see him--not a pleasant experience. You did not have to look in a directory to find one--just look for a long line outside a home and you can bet your life that's where a doctor lives The examining tables, were their kitchen tables. The time they had to spend with you was very limited and if you had to have medicine, you can bet your butt is was a one size fits all. To get your prescription filled, you did not go to a Drugstore, but to an APOCATARY TO GET IT. WHAT YOU GOT WAS A GOVERNMENT PRESCRIBED MEDICATION--NOT A VARITY OF DRUGS. IF, FOR EXAMPLE THE TYPE OF MEDICINE YOU RECEIVED WAS IN A LIQUID FORM, YOU HAD TO BRING YOU OwN BOTTLE, GIVEN TO YOU ON YOUR FIRST TRIP. YOUR PRESCRIPTION CAME FROM A BARREL/VAT SERVED TO YOU IN YOUR BOTTLE--each time you needed a refill, you used the same bottle. If you were having a baby, they would put a standard old newspaper under you to catch the afterbirth. Folks, I know this does not sound pretty, but I have to tell you one more truth, one foggy night, three of my youngest children all came down with a cold or perhaps, the flu, never did learn what was wrong with them. In case, I had to, BECAUSE OF THE HEAVY FOG, rely on a Health care doctor to come to the house. When he arrived, he carried what look to me to be a Micky Mouse doctors kit. Opening it, after giving each child a cursory check-up, he pulled out a termometer, and used the same one, to take the temperature of each child. In between each use, he gave it to my wife to run cold sink water on it and he would use it again. To make a long story short, I KEPT HOPING HE HAD MORE THAN ONE THERMOMETER YES, It OCCURRED YEARS AGO, BUT MY ENGLISH FRIENDS, THAT HAVE LEFT ENGLAND, BECAUSE OF POOR MEDICAL CARE, TELL ME IT HAS GOTTEN WORST NOT BETTER. The Messengerr