Quote Originally Posted by Marlin View Post
Well, for the ridiculous people that support public health care, I can tell you first hand what kind of care it will be....plus in order for me to go to medical, I would have to drive all the way over to the base (4 miles) and have them tell me I need to go to the ER. Then I go out in town and sit in the ER for 4 hours for them to tell me it is too late to get stitches. No thanks, I will cut out the middle man.
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+1 - Military medicine is a joke. If I took the time to list everything that has gone wrong for just my wife and friends, I'd still be here Monday morning. (She was prior AF active duty, now Air National Guard).

The best summary is this story: A few months ago she collapsed while on the job and was taken to the base hospital. When I walked into her room I asked two questions: "Are you okay?" and "Seriously? You couldn't crawl out the gate so the civilian hospital would come get you?" Yes it's that bad. We were at the hospital 13 hours before she was discharged. In that time she had a CT scan, then an MRI, then a CT scan with contrast (because the first CT didn't work - duh). Hours literally passed between doctor and nurse visits. When the resident obgyn came on duty she took one look at her chart, said something to the attending physician that must not have been a compliment, and she was out the door in 15 minutes. Turns out the problem was related to a post-pregnancy complication we already knew she had (and which we told the doctor was probably the problem up front).

Sorry for the rant, like I said, that's just one small example. Marlin's on the money, trust me, you do not want government health care.