Posted by
TheChair on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 1:47:09 AM
The Desert Dispatch (Victorville, CA) just ran
this letter to the editor. A nameless, faceless bureaucrat blithely denied crucial pain medication to the wife of a Vietnam veteran with a rare disease, and for whom no other medication was effective.
In order for my wife to receive this medication through Tri-Care, she had to get special authorization from the government overseer of this government-run health care program. The doctors at Loma Linda sent in a four page letter requesting that Tri-Care cover this pain medication. An unknown person at Tri-Care, who isn’t a doctor and has never seen my wife and probably doesn’t know anything about this rare brain disease, rejected the request from the doctors at Loma Linda. The government told these specialists at Loma Linda that they know better than they do when it came to prescribing a pain medication for my wife. The doctors at Loma Linda then went into greater detail in another letter to Tri-Care in an attempt to get this medication approved. This time the government returned the letter to the doctors with out even reading it. In their reply to the doctors, the government stated; we have already rejected one request from you for this medication and we will not accept any more requests from you on this matter.
This is what Obama, Pelosi and Reid want to do to all the rest of us.