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As chairman of the House Republican Health Care Solutions Group, Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Springfield, knows a thing or two about health care. But some of what he knows just isn’t true.

“I’m 59,” Mr. Blunt said last week during a meeting with Post-Dispatch reporters and editors. “In either Canada or Great Britain, if I broke my hip, I couldn’t get it replaced.”

We fact-checked that. At least 63 percent of hip replacements performed in Canada last year and two-thirds of those done in England were on patients age 65 or older. More than 1,200 in Canada were done on people older than 85.

“I didn’t just pull that number out of thin air,” Mr. Blunt said in a subsequent interview. It came, he said, from testimony before the House Subcommittee on Health by “some people who are supposed to be experts on Canadian health care.”

“I had been given that example. I was told that 59 is the cutoff,” he said. “I’m glad you pointed that out to me. I won’t use that example any more.”

Mr. Blunt is a sincere man. We have no doubt he’ll keep his word.

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It shouldn’t matter. None of the health reform plans being considered by Congress would create an English- or Canadian-style health system here. But opponents of reform sometimes are careless with the facts about U.S. health care, too.

For example, Mr. Blunt was asked how long an uninsured American would wait for a hip replacement.

“If they go to the emergency room, I think they can get that done,” he said. Emergency rooms don’t do hip replacements, which require both hospital care and weeks of rehabilitation. They do emergency surgery, necessary to save a life.

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“I had been given that example. I was told that 59 is the cutoff,” he said. “I’m glad you pointed that out to me. I won’t use that example any more.”

I sure wish the press would push him to reveal his sources. There's way the hell too much of the press just taking somebody's statement without verifying whether it is true or not and where that source is coming from. That's where the press is dropping the ball.

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I sure wish the press would push him to reveal his sources.

It came, he said, from testimony before the House Subcommittee on Health by "some people who are supposed to be experts on Canadian health care."

They should check the transcripts to verify whether somebody actually said that and who it was...then question them on why they were giving false testimony before Congress.

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Well I know for a fact that the 59 age isn't true in Canada. I had a friend who had a total hysterectomy very early for cancer. One of the side effects was severe osteoporosis. She was around 50 when she fell and broke her hip. She got a total hip replacement since the existing bone was too friable and wouldn't mend. Most people under 59 years old who break a hip are able to mend quite properly. Total hip replacements are for those who have problems with the hip joint and may not be the best solution for them unless the underlying bone is not sufficient for healing. The older the patient the more likely they are to suffer from osteoporosis or severe arthritis, etc. Regardless, if the circumstances warrant, hip replacements are available for those under 59 years old.

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Well I know for a fact that the 59 age isn't true in Canada. I had a friend who had a total hysterectomy very early for cancer. One of the side effects was severe osteoporosis. She was around 50 when she fell and broke her hip. She got a total hip replacement since the existing bone was too friable and wouldn't mend. Most people under 59 years old who break a hip are able to mend quite properly. Total hip replacements are for those who have problems with the hip joint and may not be the best solution for them unless the underlying bone is not sufficient for healing. The older the patient the more likely they are to suffer from osteoporosis or severe arthritis, etc. Regardless, if the circumstances warrant, hip replacements are available for those under 59 years old.

I think Roy Blunt was saying once you reach a certain age, say 59, you can't get those proceedures. The article says once confronted with the following information, the Congressman recanted his statement.

We fact-checked that. At least 63 percent of hip replacements performed in Canada last year and two-thirds of those done in England were on patients age 65 or older. More than 1,200 in Canada were done on people older than 85.
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Ah, ok. That is interesting because more hip replacements are done on older people than on younger people. My automatic interpretation of that comment was that people younger than 59 couldn't get them done, not that older people couldn't. It is considered an older person's surgery in Canada. My Dad is 80 and he is seriously considering getting it done - once he gets used to the idea of having surgery.

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I sure wish the press would push him to reveal his sources.

It came, he said, from testimony before the House Subcommittee on Health by "some people who are supposed to be experts on Canadian health care."

They should check the transcripts to verify whether somebody actually said that and who it was...then question them on why they were giving false testimony before Congress.

Well, that would take be actually what the news is supposed to do but we all know that is not how it works these days, if its not "first" or "sensationalized" then they don't bother. Don't you know that "the truth" is not news anymore, it just doesn't bring in the bacon.

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Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Springfield, knows a thing or two about health care.

:rofl: - yeah, obviously...

For example, Mr. Blunt was asked how long an uninsured American would wait for a hip replacement.

“If they go to the emergency room, I think they can get that done,” he said.

He's quite the expert. :rofl: :rofl:

Mr. Blunt is a sincere man.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: - this is just too much, stop it - :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

 

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