I have not posted recently for many reasons, not the least of which was the death of my 2 year old godson, Jason Lee Johnson, from meningitis.

His death was most likely the result of a misdiagnosis in the hospital’s ‘triage’ room, where they just thought he had a fever when, in fact, he was in the early stages of meningitis. That delayed him over 12 hours from getting the critical care and attention he really needed.

When Obamacare gets passed, this is the scenario you will see duplicated around the country, and that is why I must speak up about it. Honestly, it is no fault of the Triage people in the emergency room. First, it is most often a nurse doing the diagnosis. She is making her best guess as per the symptoms described by the patient or the patient’s friends or family. When we were at the hospital with Jason, there were at least two other people waiting to be seen in triage while Jason was back in the ER already through that process. It isn’t until you get back into the ER until the physician on duty can see you, and then can get ahold of the specialist on call.

But, let’s add something else to this scenario. Multiply the numbers waiting by a good factor. Don’t increase the pay or numbers of the staff, and in fact limit how much they can charge if the patients going through the Triage process are on Medicaid.  What do you have? Chaos. You also have an environment where many, many more mistakes in the initial diagnosis will occur. Even in a non-busy time, something may slip through like little Jason’s conditions when he was seen in the morning vs 8 pm at night.

How is this improving our health care?

If you want a more visual proof of what I’m talking about, go on YouTube and search for ‘Steven Crowder Canada’. PJTV’s Crowder went up to Canada to show exactly what the true health care system is up there. It not only is not pretty, but confirms what I am talking about in this post.

This is why Obamacare must be stopped, because in the end it will cause much more harm than good.

Tags: health care, obamacare, triage

I just got the following via Dhimmi Watch’s RSS feed, and it needs to be spread:

Obama’s "Christian" grandmother in Mecca for Hajj

from Dhimmi Watch by Robert

Why the deception? And who was behind it? AP? The Obama camp? Someone else? What was its purpose?

AP, March 5, 2008:

"In the world of today, children have different religions from their parents," she said. She, too, is a Christian.

Is she really?

"Saudi Arabia: Obama’s grandmother in Mecca for ‘Hajj’ ceremony," from AKI, November 25 (thanks to C. Cantoni):

Mecca, 25 Nov. (AKI) – The grandmother of US president Barack Obama has arrived in Saudi Arabia for the ‘Hajj’ or Islamic pilgrimage to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, a Saudi daily said on Wednesday. Sarah Obama, 87, is being accompanied by a nephew and Obama’s cousin, Omran.

On Wednesday Sarah Obama was in the valley of Mina with an African delegation, according to the Saudi daily Okaz.

Obama, the mother of the American president’s father, lives in a village in Kenya and is one of the many guests of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud….

For the uninitiated: you MUST be a Muslim to even enter Mecca. If you are a Christian, you are denied entry. If you are of another religion and found in the city, it is an automatic death penalty.

So, obviously, the Obama campaign and the mainstream media have lied about his upbringing yet again. They fabricated the story that Obama’s grandmother was a Christian during the campaign so we would be fooled. This is beyond simple deception now, and is even more evidence that the media is an active participant in a campaign of deception against the American public.

As a few of you may have heard by now, Obama issued the order calling the H1N1 ‘epidemic’ a ‘National Emergency’.

As a person who is extremely wary of anything ordered by Obama and his cronies, let’s look at the worse case scenario that this would entail.

First, it allows states to ask for money from the Feds to combat the illness. Not bad, until you discover this is money over and above what’s already been put into places such as spending bills and the stimulus package. 

It allows the restriction of large gatherings of people. Of course, that’s intentionally vague and can be used to prevent certain gatherings and allow others…say, like, prohibiting protests against Obamacare and Cap & Trade, but allowing SEIU and ACORN protests.

It allows quarantines of areas of outbreak. You know, like more conservative suburbs, or large businesses, like those owned by the US Chamber of Commerce members.

Do I actually think Obama and Sebillius would actually do such things? Unfortunately, you just can’t put this sort of thing past them.

I wish I wasn’t turning more and more paranoid about this president. I really do not want to think he is that petty, but then we see what he’s tried to do to Fox News and you realize he isn’t above being petty.