Man robs bank for $1 to get medical care in jail

[M>B>]

Check this one out...

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/02/...s-20110302

[Bill in NC]

Grandmother was not critically ill, but old and feeble, with multiple medical conditions common to someone of her age.

Her heart even stopped on the table during her hip replacement surgery (note that as a condition of surgery your advanced directives are suspended - the surgical team gets to resuscitate you even if that is prohibited in your advanced directives)

Dead about a month after the "successful" surgery (but she was never able to participate in the rehab required)

From what I've seen, no matter how decrepit you are, on Medicare at least you always get scheduled for surgery when a hip breaks.

davester wrote:
[quote=Racer X]

My ex-wife's grandfather had HIS hip replaced at our expense, when he was critically ill, and he died 3 days later.

Your posts are generally good ones Racer X, but that story sounds fishy. There's no way that any competent doctors would be performing unrelated surgery on someone who was critically ill. It's far too dangerous.

[Bill in NC]

How about Hospice only for the violent lifers?

E.g., someone like Charles Manson doesn't get chemo or radiation, only palliative care in the case of a terminal cancer.

RAMd®d wrote:
But the question is "What level of health care is a necessity?"

Granted, there's no easy answer there.

But more importantly everybody need to get onboard with the concept that medical care is a necessity, not a luxury. It's my feeling that not nearly enough people believe that.

Winning that battle would make determining "what level" less difficult. I can understand that it would be difficult but it shouldn't be contentious.