House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) on Thursday “underwent surgery” to control an infection three weeks after he was shot during a Republican congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia.
“Congressman Steve Scalise underwent surgery for the management of infection. He tolerated the procedure well,” MedStar Washington Hospital Center said in a statement Thursday evening. “He remains in serious condition. We will provide updates as appropriate.”
The hospital announced Thursday morning that Scalise had been readmitted to its intensive care unit in “serious” condition “due to new concerns for infection,” two weeks after he was moved out of the ICU in fair condition.
Scalise was shot in the hip and underwent several surgeries to repair “significant damage to bones, internal organs and blood vessels.”
Thoughts and prayers from anyone who’s ever been “gravely wounded”, had bullets shatter their bones and rip through internal organs as they tore across their abdomens, or died.
I hope he gets better, because I am honest enough to admit that his replacement would be just as bad, and if he were to recover he might have some sympathy to other victims of violence who don’t have gold level health insurance like he does. Historically, it takes a personal tragedy for a GOP politician to start giving a damn about other people stuck in that similar tragedy.
So yeah, that’s me being very cynical, but these are times where cynicism is justified.
They say 5 percent take up 50 percent of health care costs. I wonder what percent of that 5 percent is from innocent people being shot or victims of other violence? That’s a CBO score that needs to be calculated.
There’s no reason to believe he’ll have sympathy for victims of gun violence.
It always happens to someone else, until it doesn’t. That’s why we should not let it happen to others. In the last three years guns have taken the lives of three of my friends and relatives. I do not think that experience is particularly unusual.
Ironically, according to my infection prevention specialist daughter, the regime is cutting funding for research into infection prevention and control. Given the rise of antibiotic resistant superbugs, this is madness.