Rebel Yell

Rebel Yell has 18 years experience and specializes in Adult ICU.

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1. Socialized Medicine the myths and the facts

   Rebel Yell replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

   Jstand; "You must have missed the part about providing for the general welfare of the United States?" You need to really study the founding fathers, their documents, letters and the history of how and why the Constitution came about. This not limi...

2. Is healthcare a right or privilege?

   Rebel Yell replied to Treat et Street's topic in Activism

   Tweedles, can you provide some references or statistics? "with too many dying for lack of access."

3. Is healthcare a right or privilege?

   Rebel Yell replied to Treat et Street's topic in Activism

   "I am not sure what discussions about "failures" of other health systems in other countries has to do with the argument about health care as a right vs. privilege other than to attempt to discourage those who desire to improve a system that needs to ...

4. How would you design Health Care Reform

   Rebel Yell replied to Not_A_Hat_Person's topic in Activism

   I thought your post was funny, twedles! Have to keep our humor - only way to stay sane. My thoughts are this; there are things we can do right now, to decrease some costs. We need to actively persue fraud and abuse in Medicaid, Medicare, and the...

5. Is healthcare a right or privilege?

   Rebel Yell replied to Treat et Street's topic in Activism

   oh boy, lookie here, this speaks for itself! st. john's, n.l. -- newfoundland premier danny williams will undergo heart surgery later this week in the united states. read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2510700#ixzz0exqzhwxu

6. Is healthcare a right or privilege?

   Rebel Yell replied to Treat et Street's topic in Activism

   "My my my...........after reading all the comments here I want to cry. It's sad, so very sad that anyone would not want healthcare for all." Don't cry, you have it wrong. It is a wonderful thing to be able to consider health care for all, and we att...

7. Ohhhh, My Aching (Blank)

   Rebel Yell replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

   Ohhh, yes! The aching back! I too, as others posted, find I can't tolerate the long shifts as easily. This age thing seemed to creep up on me fast . . . more like run over me from behind! I have been neglectful in my back/hip/shoulder exercises, ...

8. Socialized Medicine the myths and the facts

   Rebel Yell replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

   http://www.edmontonjournal.com/health/Disabled+infant+gets+reprieve/2460161/story.html So is this what socialized medicine is to bring us? The government decides. And we scream about ethics, personal freedom to make our own decisions and those that s...

9. Is healthcare a right or privilege?

   Rebel Yell replied to Treat et Street's topic in Activism

   An "unalienable right" is NOT something someone provides, they come directly and exclusively from God or nature, and NO one can take those rights away. Here is a quote from William Blackstone to help you better understand it: "Those rights, then wh...

10. Socialized Medicine the myths and the facts

    Rebel Yell replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

    With respect, madwife, this is not a Socialist country, and the majority of us don't want to be. We are already part way there, unfortunately. America was based on a different premise, and with it's study you find that a lot of this is unconstitution...

11. Healthcare reform

    Rebel Yell replied to moneyline702's topic in Activism

    I know of A LOT of doctors that will be leaving practice if this goes through. Some, going back to their home country, some just early reitirement. Some of those "unintended consequences". Whatever their reasons, doesn't matter. There will be few...

12. Mandatory Vaccination

    Rebel Yell posted a topic in COVID

    New York and Massachusetts are making the H1N1 flu vaccine mandatory. Should it be? Is it that much of a threat to our health that is an emergency? (WHO says it is) And if you would be against getting the vaccination, how fair is the law in "puni...

13. I want to know what nurses think about socialized medicine.

    Rebel Yell replied to ratchet41's topic in Activism

    Oh my gosh, you said it very well! Maybe we should just let the States handle this. "The proper role of government is to provide equal rights, not provide equal things."

14. I want to know what nurses think about socialized medicine.

    Rebel Yell replied to ratchet41's topic in Activism

    http://blunt.house.gov/Media/PDFS/DemocratsHealthPlanChart.pdf

15. I want to know what nurses think about socialized medicine.

    Rebel Yell replied to ratchet41's topic in Activism

    We already have "socialized medicine" here in the U.S. in the forms of Medicaid, Medicare, VA and in a different form, the HMO's. That is a start to your comparison. I don't believe there is a simple answer to this. I have been without insurance a...