Another real good reason to pass healthcare. Africa would be a good place for him. One of those countries that are embroiled in hot civil wars. He seem to enjoy rabble rousing here so much.
Hey Rush! Do you want to pay the bills for the uninsured or under insured who have the same symptoms you had and go to a nearby E.R., especially at a hospital away from home? Will you even see the bill and how much your insurance paid for tests that would not have been done for anyone not having insurance in most U.S. states?
Rule of thumb, knot head! If you can breathe, it's probably not a heart attack.
You are right, however.
Severe chest pain is nothing to mess with. Yet people do mess with it, because they have no choice unless they want to lose their homes and everything else. You will never know the kind of fear and anxiety with which these people live.
Perhaps, you had a panic attack brought on by past drug abuse. It can happen. In any case you just had a whole bunch of expensive tests done and no treatment because not a damn thing was wrong with you....well, nothing a cardiologist could treat.
I hope you will ask for the bill and talk about what the costs are for all the diagnostic tests and physicians' time you wasted.
Look, Rush, everybody on earth knows you are a big old addict (one who had no compassion for other addicts, by the way). No hospital on earth would risk giving you anything remotely narcotic for pain unless the diagnosis was "probably terminal."
Most of us came of age in the 60s; that most misunderstood, tumultuous time, the story of which, I imagine, will never be completely told. Why? Because it is more of a Peoples' History than the story of various governments, empires, wars, leaders and such. Historians spend much time on such things. The history of the people at any given time is seldom told by historians. Only the people can tell their story of a given time in history. We should all be about doing just that. If you were around back then, and half-way conscious (and I don't mean by that, what you might think I mean), you belong here. Send us you story, tell us about your life. What do you protest, do you have any answers to the problems we all face?