Third World scenes at an L.A. clinic

[yeahwho]

From today's LATimes to you in your world (http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lopez16-2009aug16,0,3959652.column), a look at Inglewood's Fabulous Forum and medical treatment in the USA today.

These people are obviously too busy to concern themselves with Hitler, Socialism and death panels.

"This is great for helping people in need," Taw said of the Forum clinic. "But it's not a good way to do healthcare."

Diabetes and hypertension require regular maintenance, Taw said, rather than occasional urgent trips to an emergency room after the patient deteriorates and the treatment is more expensive. By some estimates, Taw said, 85% of the estimated 47 million uninsured Americans are members of working families. So why not divide the cost of their health insurance evenly among employer, employee and the government?

Taw said he'd seen the Friday headline in The Times about the latest cut in California's Healthy Families Program budget, which means nearly 670,000 children could lose medical coverage by next June. A disaster in the making, he said. Yes, and Brock told me the biggest difference between the Third World and the United States is that in our country, children have had far greater access to doctors.

[yeahwho]

xlnt video, watch before it's taken down

Dana Gould on Bill Maher 8/14 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht_W5_Ogh0U&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo%2Egoogle%2Ecom%2Fvideosear ch%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3Dbill%2520maher%25208%252F14%252 F09%26um%3D1%26ie%3DUTF%2D8%26sa%3DN%26tab%3Dwv&feature=player_embedded)

[Schmeltz]

By some estimates, Taw said, 85% of the estimated 47 million uninsured Americans are members of working families. So why not divide the cost of their health insurance evenly among employer, employee and the government?

BECAUSE THAT'S SOCIALISM AND IT'S WRONG WRONG WRONG HITLER HOLOCAUST CRYING EAGLE

[yeahwho]

Dana Gould went on to explain later on Bill Mahe'rs 8/14/09 show that what we're witnessing is an underclass of society and an angry class, people who believed every word Ronald Reagan spoke and if it ever varies off the Reagan script they are angry.

These folks will be perpetually angry until they die.

More from the LATimes story below,

Greg Pearl, an optometrist who has done medical relief in Mexico and South America for Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity, said it's outrageous that vision and dental care are not in most U.S. insurance plans and are rarely part of any conversation on healthcare reform.

When I asked him about differences in the patients he sees overseas and in clinics such as the one at the Forum, he had a quick answer.

"Here, the patients speak English."

I can't say I was surprised by the spectacle at the Forum, but with each of two visits, I knew I was witnessing the perfect distillation of an unconscionable societal failure. Whether the answer includes the public option Obama has pitched, or the clampdown on obscene insurance company profits proposed by a doctor friend of mine in Wednesday’s column (http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lopez12-2009aug12%2C1%2C2117780.column), a civil society has no excuse for not finding a better way.

[yeahwho]

BECAUSE THAT'S SOCIALISM AND IT'S WRONG WRONG WRONG HITLER HOLOCAUST CRYING EAGLE

AND DON'T FORGET THE LOGICAL CONCLUSION OF A SUPERIOR RACE THAT INVOLVES A WHITE MOTHER AND A BLACK FATHER.

USE YOUR LOGIC!

[YoungRemy]

when you open up an infirmary in the Fabulous Forum like it's a job fair or the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina, that's what kind of health care you're going to get.