The Deaths in the American Public Health System

Dear Michael,

Although you and I are often on different sides, I have always admired you.

Along with Rush Limbaugh, you are one of the top two communicators in the United States.

Unlike Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Barack Obama, I think you actually have honest altruistic motives.

So Michael, why not a movie about all the people who have been killed in the American Public health system?

I mean, why not tell the truth about how many people die when you trust the government with their health care?

Don’t you think that’s an important thing do to before we start down the slippery slope of putting the Government 100% in charge of health care?

Start with the death of 50-year-old Steven Howard Sabock who sat unattended for nearly 24 hours while workers at North Carolina Cherry Hospital danced, played cards, laughed, talked on cell phones, and watched TV. It’s all on video.

Then take a trip down to Georgia and read a series that appeared in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, titled “A Hidden Shame”. Read about Sarah Crider, one at least 115 patients from Georgia’s state psychiatric hospitals, who died under suspicious circumstances according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Sarah Crider, dead in a Georgia public hospital
 

Michael, have you ever served on a Board of Directors of a Public Health Agency? I have.

People talk about accountability, but in public health care, there is no accountability.

Supposedly, the public health care system is more accountable, because it is run by Boards of Directors consisting of ordinary citizens.

But such is not the case.

In the mid nineties I was a member of a Board that supervised Central Virginia Community Services, a public mental health agency.

One day a young man named Barry Bohannon came to our local hospital emergency room for mental health treatment. Upon being turned away, he went home and he shot both of his parents and then committed suicide.

At our next meeting, the treatment related double homicide suicide wasn’t even on the agenda. It wasn’t something the Board President or the Executive Director cared to share with the board.

Why didn’t the Executive Director and the Board care to investigate the unnecessary death of a young man and his parents?

That should be the subject of your next movie, Michael. It is as significant as the events in Columbine Colorado?

But I wish you would make your movie first, Michael. I wish you would find out why government health care kills so many people first, before you try to convince us to turn over the rest of our money and power and self determination to a few elitists in Washington DC, who are cosmically indifferent to the number of deaths they are going to cause by their bullying incompetent takeover of the American health care system.

Thanks Michael. I know you could get to the truth if you wanted to.

Regards,

Sam Mela
circulationdown@gmail.com

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