Just Forget Seventy Five
By Gunnery Sergeant John McClain, USMC, Retired

A note from a former U. S. Marine and Vietnam veteran living in
Danbury, Connecticut. .

I am a 67-year-old former Marine and a Vietnam veteran. And I say:
"Forget about living to age 75 in the USA!"

This morning at Danbury Hospital here in Connecticut, I was scheduled
for a cardio-lite stress test. This is a treadmill stress test where
nuclear dye is injected into your bloodstream and you are put in a CAT
scan or something similar in order to take a picture of your heart. If
all is good, the heart shows up red; if there are blocked arteries
anywhere, the heart shows up pink. I have had three of these tests in
the past twelve years due to blocked arteries discovered in 2000. They
use the test to determine if I need a "roto-rooter" or a bypass operation.

So, I arrived for my previously schedule appointment at the hospital at
8 a.m. this morning and in the process of checking in, the lady in the
front desk said that my appointment has been canceled. She made a
call, spoke with someone, and then she handed me the phone. It was a
nurse in the Cardiology Department who said that my medical insurance
carrier denied the procedure.
I said, "It is a routine part of my heart maintenance program as
ordered by my PCP and with approval from my cardiologist who is the head
of Danbury Cardiology Department, which is right where I am standing
right now."
She went, "Yes, but our request was denied."
So I said, "I have Medicare, so what is my backup insurance doing
denying anything."
Then the bombshell;. . .she said, "It was the Medicare Board that denied
the procedure."

At that point, I turned to everyone behind me, and it was a long line,
and I said to them "Well, you won't have to wait too long today because
my stress test procedure was just canceled by a Medicare Death Panel. I
am only 67 so can you imagine what is going to happen when we really get
old?"
The entire waiting room and everyone there from patients to staff just
went dead silent.
Then, I turned to the front desk staff and told them, "I guess I will
have to write a letter to the editor of the Danbury News Times and call
my senators and congressman and let them know the Death Panels have
already convened".
Then I walked out.

By the time I got home the message machine was blinking. My PCP had
called and so did the hospital and guess what? Medicare decided to
approve my stress test procedure, and I should get back down to the
hospital, and they would fit me in right away for the 3-hour procedure.
I called back and told them that I couldn't make it, I was going
fishing because I didn't know how many more fishing trips I could get in
before I went into cardiac arrest, but not to worry about me costing the
government any money because I am a 30% disabled Army veteran due to
Agent Orange poisoning which is what caused this heart problem to begin
with, and I qualify to be buried for free in a plain pine box in the
cheap graves section at any national cemetery. I certainly don't want
to cost our government any money. So, maybe we just won't do the
procedure anymore and we can use the money to redistribute it to all of
the illegals to keep them alive so they can mow the lawns at the
national cemeteries.

And so this note is for everyone to know that the Death Panel crap has
already started. And if we don't vote this guy and his criminal
cronies out of office this November, then we should all expect to die
younger and as completely broke paupers as the country goes further
down to hell.

Feel free to distribute my note to anyone and make it your mission to
not only make your vote count in November 2012 but on behalf of all of
us, please also make an effort to help convince everyone to NOT vote
for the present White House occupant or any of his cronies in the
November 2012 election if they want to receive proper medical care and
expect to live to age 75 or older!
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As my own advice, I would add, don’t return any senator to the senate who is not absolutely outraged at this whole manner of ignoring our principled Standards of culture, and equally outraged at those Senators who have supported this, openly, without prompting.

As a Marine 90% disabled, and on quad weekly infusions for multiple sclerosis, and fifty four, consider all those who have come after me, those who have served under the “COIN” Counter Insurgency strategy in Afghanistan. The principle core of the doctrine adopted was based on the use of vehicles was deemed causing distrust, and after-math operations have been mandated, conducted by foot patrols.

Remember, all our lightweight, go fast HMVV’s were “armored up” because they literally burned up when struck by IED’s, Improvised Explosive Devices. They ceased to be fast, light-weight maneuverable and nimble, and became slow moving targets.

We don’t lose HMVV’s much any more; patrolling is on foot, so the IED’s now only take out the lower half of a Soldier’s or Marine’s Body. This is the embodiment of COIN today. It does save vehicles!

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  • The media, and I am refering to Fox news and the conservative talk show hosts, do not mention the death panels very often, in fact, very seldom do they mention them.  Even Romney doesn't mention them very often if at all.   This is why I do NOT want the govt. involved in any part of my health care!!!!  Those who are rich enough to pay for these services and treatments, still swallow the bs that the libs feed them.   This is why airclaire McAsskill has got to go.  After 71% of Missouri citizens said NO to the death care bill, she still voted YES!  Hussain appointed the death panel 3 weeks after the stimulas bill was passed.  Many do not know that beside repealing the death care bill, the death panel also has to be repealed again from the stimulas bill!  The death panel was slipped in the stimulas bill and the congress did not bother to read that bill either so many are ignorant of the death panel.  But the congress should have know as they hold the purse strings!  I scream about the death panel every chance I get and people look at me like I was in the twilight zone!  It is really there people and waiting to take you out!  In case you don't know, it's listed as the IPAB board, not what it really is, the death panel!  The death care bill is all part of Agenda 21 which calls for thge extermination of over 1 billion people so the planet can live.  Hussain signed an executive order making agenda 21 the law that we live by, so came about the word, (sustainability) which is code for agenda 21!  You will hear this word often in this govt.!

  • Would you mind if I copy and paste your statement onto my Facebook? 

    • Beeirish1965.........it's public information.........post away...........

  • Semper Fi, Gunny.  Should go ahead and call the newspaper, the senators etc.

  • All medical doctors are licensed through their state board. It is a crime to practice medicine without a license. Therefore, report the members of the "death panel" to the state medical board. They have to act.

  • I think you are absolutely correct. I have been informed that the VA has been ordered to cut back on care. I had a dermatologist refuse a consultation for my agent orange chloracne (skin disease). I went to my congressman who in turn submitted an inquiry. Finally I was given an appointment. Guess what. I was given an appointment on the day the doctor did not work. Anybody want to copy and paste this, go right ahead.

    • Ronald,

      My family Doctor has given up her practice after 21 years of excellent service. Privately she will tell people that it is 100% due to Obamacare being ramped up and she knows she will have her hands tied as to how she can treat some of her patients. She could not live with herself if even one person has to come to her and ask... "why did you let my Mommy die"? Rather than have that happen she has retired. She's now looking forward to doing some consulting work and teach Tourists how to Fly Fish for an income. Her Husband makes Ok money so she's not looking to make a pile of money.

      Anyway, according to her... what she did is going to catch-on very fast and there will be a Doctor shortage within the next 3 years. Five years ago I tried warning people about Obama. I hope now that people will wake-the-F-up and kick Obama out on his arse!!! 

      Stupid people only have 2 more weeks to see the light. If Obama wins I may move to Canada. At least their economy is doing a lot better than ours.

  • My Mom was just denied a hospital bed because she had gone over her limits for the year. Not sure if that means next year she can get one but right now Medicare will NOT allow her to have that bed she needs and called for by doctors because she has spent too much on health care through Medicare. WOW! Not sure what we will do but we will figure it out somehow (I Hope). So yea ObamaCare is here for sure.

  • This really angers me to no extent. I can not explain why, well I could but I do not want to cause penalties to the person/persons it would cause harm to in the long run. I have seen this done many times on the insurance end of the medical industry. I am a strongly opposed to the government required health plan called none other than obamacare. This will not only dictate your health, health insurance but many other aspects of your life that most people especially the democrats and liberals our there that have blinders over their eyes. Yet, they still want this thing in office..... if they only knew the truth of what they face once this becomes effective.... how it WILL affect their lives. They think they will not be included because they voted for him or are registered as a democrat .... they will not be spared.... Mr Gunny McClain, I hope that many read this.  Semper Fi 

  • This is a total outrage!  I hope you will reconsider and go back and get the treatment you need.  You deserve it.  You have already paid a very high price to our gov't and they owe this (and much more) to you.  I am so sorry that you were treated so disgracefully, but don't deny yourself the treatment that you have already paid for.  Don't give in to the bullies on the death panel, fight back because you are worth it.  Thank you for your service to our country and for sharing your experience.

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