Today at taxpayer expense, the Republican Speaker of the House, Denny Hastert carted his raggedy ass to
Bethesda Naval Medical Center. He's checked-in for the weekend (undoubtedly in the presidential suite) for treatment of cellulitis.
His doctor examined the area Thursday and sent him to Bethesda Naval Hospital, telling Hastert to stay "off his feet for at least 72 hours" so it could be properly treated with intravenous antibiotics before he returned to his normal schedule next week, his office said.
Hastert is diabetic, which is a risk factor for cellulitis, The Hill said.
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Millions of Americans aren't amused that Hastert gets the weekend in the hospital when we have to fight to fill a fucking prescription.
Don't tell me what a serious condition he has. Mr. Hastert, Mr. Bush and their ilk, want you and me to go comparision shopping while bleeding before getting our serious conditions treated. They call this consumer directed health care. Bullshit. It's another load of Republican deceit. It's a giveaway to Wall Street and the insurance industry.
Denny doesn't shop for low prices. At Bethesda, he certainly gets the most expensive health care in the world. The best? Perhaps at causing untold numbers of insured Americans to file for bankruptcy.
Denny would know alot about unaffordable health care. He's one of the chief thugs and architects of the deeply flawed Medicare D prescription drug program.
He's the guy who held the vote open for 15 hours until all the bribes and payoffs were accounted for.
Denny and his Republican cohorts were the creeps who decreed that the Medicare Modernization Act which created Medicare D(disaster) would not permit the government to negotiate prices with pharmaceutical companies.
Denny saw to it that the Medicare bill would allow prescription prices to continue their rapid rise in the United States, allowing taxpayer money to benefit an already very profitable industry.
My friend who had a radical mastectomy a few months ago at Kaiser Permanente in California isn't amused that Hastert is swaddled in fine linen at Bethesda for the weekend. She was thrown out six hours after getting her left breast amputated.
People who can't afford their prescription drugs aren't amused that Denny gets the Rolls Royce treatment while the rest of us get shit.
And an intrepid doctor in Connecticut is so fucking pissed off that he's even writing bogus prescriptions.
"Like most of my colleagues," he told the Advertiser last week, "I'm increasingly frustrated and disheartened by restrictions placed on us as caretakers for our patients that really make it incredibly difficult, if not at times impossible, to meet our patients' needs."
When a patient's insurance company cut her Lunesta coverage from 30 pills a month to 10, Dr. Hoffmann told The Boston Globe in an article that hit the streets June 11, he wrote a 10-pill prescription in her husband's name. Calling himself a "medical conscientious objector," he said the patient was a recovering alcoholic and chief breadwinner for her family, and that he was afraid she would not remain healthy during an appeal with her insurance company -- something he had lost over Lunesta in the past.
It was just one in a long line of frustrating situations.
Knowing it could subject him to disciplinary action, Dr. Hoffmann announced in the article that he had written roughly 10 false prescriptions in the last six or seven years in order to sidestep insurance company restrictions on drugs he believed his patients needed.
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This is what it's come to. First one doctor, then another.
Let's call it what it is. Guerilla Medicine.
That's the way things are in America.
47 million uninsured and doctors forced to write bogus prescriptions.