What We Can Expect ObamaCare To Do to the Rest of Us
Image: Linda Suhler, PhD@Twitter
(The Spokesman Review/AP) Donald Douglass aged 57 had a small spot in his forehead when he went to the Seattle VA in 2011 a biopsy confirmed it was cancerous but it was four months before the VA Hospital scheduled an appointment for him to have it removed and by then, it had spread, wrapping around a facial nerve and getting into his blood.
The delay proved fatal, a said his Atty Jennifer Holman of Tacoma. “Had he had his surgery timely, he’d be alive today.
” While the VA said it would schedule an appointment for Douglass to have the necessary surgery at the University of Washington Medical Center, it dragged its feet,” Holman said.
Douglass repeatedly checked in about whether the appointment had been scheduled and there are notes in his patient records indicating that he was still waiting for surgery. The surgery was finally performed in September 2011 but by then the cancer had spread. Douglass suffered facial pain and paralysis and died a little more than a year later.
ObamaCare = VA Care –Cartoon Image: Lana Wong@Facebook
Related: Senate Dems Block VA Bill, Reserve Outrage for Redskins
VA Scandal: This is What Death Panels Look Like –Front Page Mag
Tweet