REAL DOCTOR explains WHY Trump had 22 doctors, who they were, and why we shouldn't care

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

[dweller]

1. How about we just

Don’t give a shit ?

Just bring on the medical examiner



✌🏻

[niyad]

2. Speculation. He may be a doctor himself, but he isn't a member

of orange's medical team. "Probably" is not at all inspiring of confidence. Neither was thevad for medicare advantage in the middle. Neither was telling us to stop wasting our time on something that does not affect any of us. Like hell it doesn't!. First, because WE paid for it. Second, because everthing that orange monster does affects us.

I do give the guy credit for pointing out that there was no psychiatrist there.

[DFW]

3. I quite agree

As one who is in the middle of cardiac treatment, the speculation about all the different cardiologists seems extremely redundant. Several of the aspects he lists as requiring a separate physician can be examined and diagnosed by a single competent cardiologist. Not even one GI specialist? Really?

[niyad]

4. I had never heard of an "interventional" whatever. Way to pad the bill

we are paying. I am so glad that your cardiac team appears to know what they are doing!

[DFW]

5. My GP in Dallas told me to be thankful I was being treated in Germany

He said that cardiology here was about five years more advanced than in the USA. I’m sure there exceptions. I’m sure that institutions like Mass General in Boston, Mt. Sainai in New York, etc. offer top care. Presbyterian in Dallas is also first rate. But there is the accessibility issue, and a lot of people live hundreds of miles from a first rate institution.

Germany is relatively compact, so that is less of an issue here. Insurance is an issue for me, though not for my wife. As a German social worker, she knows the ropes, although even she had no health insurance from age 60 to 65 (sorry for the propagandists, but universal health insurance in Germany is a myth). I had to pay for her German equivalent of COBRA for five years, though that was only a fifth of what I would have had to pay. I was quoted a premium of about $35,000 per year, and that was 15 years ago.

I am officially on BCBS from my employer in Texas, though they deny everything, so I am basically uninsured. Fortunately, care like I am currently receiving in Germany only costs about a third of what it costs in the States, so I’m still less out of pocket than I would be by paying the $35,000 yearly premium.

I’ll bet Blue Cross could make a fortune by chartering planes full of insured patients to Germany and getting them treated here instead of in overpriced American hospitals. I guess they would need a magic pill to give them a knowledge of German, although of all the doctors and nurses that treated me yesterday, only the head surgeon was actually a native-born German. The rest were Polish, Armenian, Chinese and Malagasy. Still, every one of them spoke impeccable German.