Health Care

This morning, my wife had an appointment with her cardiologist, a follow-up to her stress echocardiogram. I went along because the doctor, a guy with South African roots, expressed some concerns about some abnormalities the echo revealed. He recommended a CT scan, which he had recommended before but which the bastards at Aetna had refused because its use was "experimental" in detecting the problems he was seeking to identify. The other option is an angioplasty, a more expensive, more invasive, more expensive, and more dangerous procedure. They are willing to pay for that. Morons! Anyway, the doctor is going to battle the insurance company again in an attempt to get them to agree to cover the procedure.

All the news lately about the U.S. being 37th in quality of health care (and France being #1) has depressed me. Why do we insist on spending all our money, and the money of the children of our children's children, on invading other countries, yet refuse to fund a decent healthcare system for our own citizens?

It's a pitiful little statement from one rarely-read blogger, but I'll say it nonetheless: IMPEACH BUSH! I am so astonished at this government's ignorance and arrogance. Our president is a national embarrassment of unparalleled proportions. I have to think that, sometimes, the people who are being hurt the worst by his brutish policies may get a sense of justice by just thinking about the time when they will be able to urinate on the bastard's grave.

I don't have the energy to rail against him forever, but the occasional rant is enough to keep my own blood boiling.