Reply #17: That's an unfair oversimplification with respect to Kennedy's situation.

[Stinky The Clown]

I myself have been medevaced. I had a heart attack. I was fortunate in not needing to be unzipped, but I did need a catheterization. My local (nearest) hospital, where I went on first symptoms) could do them in an emergency. Another hospital, some 15 miles or so away, had a proper cath lab and did them routinely, with a staff that did them routinely.

I was medevaced (by ground, since I was not so critical as to need a helicopter, but they **did** discuss that) to that hospital and had the work done.

I think this is more a matter of what's best and not how rich one is.

To be sure there are stories of the poor being denied solely because they're poor.

To be sure, our health care *system* (not the quality of the care received or of the caregivers) is broken. But this was not an example of it ...... in my view.