Gabby Gifford's medical care.

[Freeper]

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EmeraldCityGrl  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Jan-11-11 04:32 PM
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Gabby Gifford's medical care.
   
Gifford is receiving outstanding medical care at Tucson Medical Center. The surgeons that are caring for her
have given awesome press conferences detailing her care and the nature of her injuries. Seems with
-out this exceptional care she wouldn't have survived.

More than likely Gifford is being covered under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP).
Probably the finest coverage in the country and paid for by taxpayers.

Just last week there was another Az. citizen waiting for and denied a transplant on Keith Olbermann's
show. While I wish Gabby Gifford and all the others still hospitalized the very best, it's impossible
for me not to see and feel extremely disturbed by the disparity in healthcare given our elected officials
and some of the people they represent.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x175997

Now let's use this horrible event to get single payer.
 

Now if she was a repuke they would be saying she doesn't deserve this kind of care.

[jukin]

Now if the DUchebag had been really listening, it is all Bush's fault.  The head surgeon said that they had made gigantic strides in head trauma from the military in the last decade.

[GOBUCKS]

Just last week there was another Az. citizen waiting for and denied a transplant on Keith Olbermann's
show.

You will rarely be granted a transplant on Keef's lame show.

[JohnnyReb]

She's getting the best free care there is because she's a government official.  And the other dude is not getting good free care because he's a peon....isn't that exactly how socialized healthcare is supposed to work?

[thundley4]

She's getting the best free care there is because she's a government official.  And the other dude is not getting good free care because he's a peon....isn't that exactly how socialized healthcare is supposed to work?

Nope. Under ideal socialized health care, Gabby would still be waiting in the emergency room with everyone else.

[debk]

One of the reasons for her survival....

Reporting from Tucson — Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, gunshot wound through her brain, was fortunate enough to be wheeled into the emergency room of a uniquely qualified surgeon: Dr. Peter Rhee, a 24-year military surgeon who has treated "hundreds and hundreds" of battlefield injuries during stints in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Rhee, 49, chief of trauma at University Medical Center in Tucson, said his work in the Navy tending to injured soldiers and Marines and teaching the next generation of battlefield medical personnel unquestionably played a role in his ability to treat Giffords and direct care for the 10 other victims who began arriving in his unit Saturday morning.
   more : http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/10/nation/la-na-peter-rhee-20110110