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Hospital

At the physician's office for my mother, the doctor in thought it was best to admit my elderly mother back into the hospital as she was experiencing problems both related to pulmonary function and cardiac function.

As soon as she received the oxygen at the hospital she felt some significant relief. Hopefully things will stay even-keeled and she will improve.

If only the damn Medicare rules would have granted my mother home oxygen LAST WEEK, when this all started, we would probably not be in this current situation. I despise our health care "system". The doctor's suggest one thing, the various insurance agencies balk about any sort of treatment, and I damn well know it is a shell game with them. The know that if they put up roadblocks (even temporary ones), that they will improve their massive profit margins further because people will give up or die waiting to wade through all the red tape. It is a huge mess and this nation should be utterly ashamed of itself for having this sort of lumbering, ineffective, bloated system where some people get health care, others get health care if they kick and scream enough, and still others receive no health care.

We need equal, high quality health care for all. Pure and simple.

PipeTobacco