Socialistic health care

[tony]

I am sorry you and you child had to wait all night in an ED but chances are there people there that were sicker than he was ( did you contact your pcp before rushin of to the ED chances are it would have saved you a trip).

and waited an entire night for my son to get attention in the ER when he was having seizures,

Maybe I didn't make it clear enough, WHILE he was having seizures. What the hell? I'm restraining myself from taking that personal but I will chalk that up to ignorance. You don't call a "PCP" while your 2 year old child is seizing.


I think this why the opposition to an affordable healthcare plan is frail, there is barely an understanding of the REAL problem and it gets addressed with half ass bandaid fixes like calling your PCP. Fortunately I have probably one of the best health care plans in the country and I don't even pay for it but I still see how fallacious it is for millions of Americans to be without healthcare. Whole families of hardworking individuals getting laid off from GM, Ford, the banking industry, whatever left without any healthcare. Not only that but those with jobs are still paying ridiculous premiums to insure their family.

Now am I saying the people don't have a responsibility either? No, the reason why Hong Kong's plan works so well is because they really stress a healthy lifestyle and one of the dead weights on our current healthcare plan is obesity. That needs to be addressed and individuals need to take accountability of their own health as well.

[eraser4g63]

Maybe I didn't make it clear enough, WHILE he was having seizures. What the hell? I'm restraining myself from taking that personal but I will chalk that up to ignorance. You don't call a "PCP" while your 2 year old child is seizing.

No ignorance here it was a serious question, you said he was seizing without giving any more information. Typically with a child that age it is a febrile seizure activity, hence forth the question about contacting a PCP. 90% of the time the only issues that warrants a trip to the emergency room or calling 911 is if the seizure activity last for longer than 3-5 mins or if he is having repetitive seizures with little or no break in between. The later of the two above described seizure activity is known in the medical field as status epilepticcus and does warrant contacting 911. I did not mean anything said to be personal, or any of the question(s) to be to prying. Simply stating the majority of the fields opinion as I work in it on a daily basis. If I hurt your feelings I am truly sorry as I understand it was your child further more if you want to use an example please bring the supporting data to go along with it IE; how long it last ( not your geustimation but actual time), how may times it happened, and what the final diagnosis was.

[tony]

No ignorance here it was a serious question, you said he was seizing without giving any more information. Typically with a child that age it is a febrile seizure activity, hence forth the question about contacting a PCP. 90% of the time the only issues that warrants a trip to the emergency room or calling 911 is if the seizure activity last for longer than 3-5 mins or if he is having repetitive seizures with little or no break in between. The later of the two above described seizure activity is known in the medical field as status epilepticcus and does warrant contacting 911. I did not mean anything said to be personal, or any of the question(s) to be to prying. Simply stating the majority of the fields opinion as I work in it on a daily basis. If I hurt your feelings I am truly sorry as I understand it was your child further more if you want to use an example please bring the supporting data to go along with it IE; how long it last ( not your geustimation but actual time), how may times it happened, and what the final diagnosis was.

No offense taken, reps given