Wolfie, you really missed the boat and obviously fail to see the big picture in the mentions of the malpractice event I mentioned earlier.

Any member of the Armed Forces is assured total health care as a part of their employment during their duty assignments, and at no costs to them as it's part of their benefits package as an employee.

Now then, while they are assured care they also have no option for what care they will be receiving, when they will receive care for a malady/illness or condition, who will administer the care, nor any recourse for any event that could be viewed as malpractice as subsequent terms of their agreement.

What all this means is that any member of the Armed Forces is guaranteed care but also has no rights in regard to expectations of what it will be, nor any recourse for any mistreatment or faults resulting from administration of said care.

What all this means in this particular instance is that although this airman was admitted and treated for gall bladder issues, when the doctor accidentally knicked his aorta during the operation resulting in emergency countermeasures to save his life, which too was unsuccessful in totality, he then required further emergency treatment that meant partial amputation of a limb.

But ... you're sure right, he won't have to pay a dime for the initial treatment, any portion of the required countermeasures resulting from the doctors mistakes during his treatments, nor even the physical therapy that will be required so he can learn to walk again without part of his leg, and as a parting shot also is incapable of securing any compensation relevant to how all this will effect his life from this point forward, eventhough the end results were all required as a result of accidental or negligent practices on the part of the surgeon performing the initial procedure.

In some truly twisted way you somehow think this is a success story? Sorry but your logic train won't be stopping here.

Sadly however, this is exactly the kind of twisted logic that will help us move towards federally mandated health care.

You also seem to make excuses for the puppetmasters not even understanding the scope or terms of the health care proposals before congress, like all the other no-brainer liberals are so quick to do. But ... isn't he the one who pushed this train to get it all started and then has lobbied the members of congress and indeed the American people themselves near daily of late for it's passage, and NOW, not after looking it all over and understanding it's parameters in totality, since he claims that's of less importance than it is in just getting it passed through the legislature BEFORE they adjourn for their upcoming "vacation"!

With that in mind is it truly unreasonable to expect he at least know what the fuck he's holding up to the American people as the Holy Grail of health care for the nation as a whole? Is it too much to expect that he at least know WHAT he's trying to sell?

If there were a way you and all your intellectually bankrupt buddies could take this health care crap that's being offered but the rest of us could choose to do otherwise, that would be fine to me, but that's not how it works when the government enacts a policy intended to encompass all Americans. This pending legislation is intended to eventually take away all other options for health care for the bulk of Americans outside of the one that will be offered by the government, leaving only those financially capable of procuring what will then be astronomically higher premium based private (just as an FYI "private" is spelled this way, not "privet" health care insurance and you still think that's a good idea huh?

Further extending the growing chasm between the Haves and the Have Nots is good for us all eh, whatta concept