News Flash - Dick Cheney has a heart

[$tevie]

vision63 wrote:
Grateful11's comment is really sad.

Heartbreaking.

[OWC Jamie]

Grateful11 wrote:
I don't wish him any ill will but like they say it's who you know and how much money you have.
My son could have used a new heart but not enough money or insurance and he ran out of time.

But we can all hope that sooner than later medicine will have advanced for someone and anyone in a similar situation will be served.

[haikuman]

billb wrote:
[quote=Grateful11]
I don't wish him any ill will but like they say it's who you know and how much money you have.
My son could have used a new heart but not enough money or insurance and he ran out of time.

But we can all hope that sooner than later medicine will have advanced for someone and anyone in a similar situation will be served.
Well said billb.

Grateful we have a very dysfunctional medical care allocation/delivery system. It is seriously broken.
Your family situation and loss clearly defines part of that problem. I think many of us here were also devastated by your loss. Hopefully in time we will see changes and improvements.
Your blessing is the time that you had . . .
Rudie

[Dennis S]

billb wrote:
[quote=Grateful11]
I don't wish him any ill will but like they say it's who you know and how much money you have.
My son could have used a new heart but not enough money or insurance and he ran out of time.

But we can all hope that sooner than later medicine will have advanced for someone and anyone in a similar situation will be served.
Medicine is already there. The problem is ignorant, stupid, greedy, hateful people who still manage to keep the system screwed up despite the rest of the #(^%*(^ world has managed to do as good a job as can humanly be done.

[decay]

The patient’s history and prognosis were grim: four heart attacks, quadruple bypass surgery, angioplasty, an implanted defibrillator and now an emergency procedure to treat an irregular heartbeat.

For millions of Americans, this might be a death sentence. For the vice president, it was just another medical treatment. And it cost him very little.

Unlike the average American, the president, vice president and members of Congress all enjoy government-financed health care with few restrictions or prohibitive fees.

[haikuman]

I think the monsters have arrived and the abyss has become a vacuum :devil:

[OWC Jamie]

typical

[decay]

[haikuman]

the Jig saw is a very fine tool never never never disparage the jigsaw . . .

[Uncle Wig]

billb wrote:
[quote=Grateful11]
I don't wish him any ill will but like they say it's who you know and how much money you have.
My son could have used a new heart but not enough money or insurance and he ran out of time.

But we can all hope that sooner than later medicine will have advanced for someone and anyone in a similar situation will be served.
What complete and utter bullshit. Lack of medical advance is not the issue here! Money is the issue.

Rudie, shame on you for sucking up to this crap.