Posted on 06/20/2008 7:13:38 AM PDT by safetysign
This is a part of a huge and expensive problem we never hear but are paying for. I was hearing these kind of stories when I was in Congress over twelve years ago. No one would listen then and no one is listening now. We just keep paying and paying.
What a crock that an illegal received $1.5 MILLION in treatment from a hospital in Florida before they shipped him back to Guatamala. The hospital paid to $30,000 to ship him home and now the family is suing the hospital. The hospital is now paying $250,000 a year to lawyers to defend this case.
We just keep paying and paying.
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Washington remains OUT OF CONTROL. A bunch of parasites, interested only their own empowerment, could care less about throwing copious amounts of tax money into a black hole. No accountability. No care. No shame. Welcome to our socialist-controlled Congress, courtesy of the mindless 2006 voters.
Our health insurance premium has gone up double-digits every year. Something has to give.
Hey terrorists have rights.....so do Illegals, I guess.....we are the WORLD! Hmmm....wonder if the French Riviera is nice this time of year....It’s part of MY world....so I deserve to go there and use their resources....don’t I?
With regards to legal US citizens, I actually give Mike Huckabee's view on this quite a bit of consideration. He mentioned during the debate that most Americans suffer from chronic medical conditions. I think part of the problem is that because insurance pays for so much "repetitive repair treatment" there is no real incentive for people to take care of themselves.
Consider, for example, the drunk who is on his 4th liver. He's gotten his past transplants at a significant discount because of insurance. If the insurance company would be able to tell him they are not paying for the next transplant unless he stops drinking (and submits to random sobriety checks), then maybe he'd have an incentive to not engage in destructive behavior. I know there are significant "slippery slope" problems here, but something has to be done to reduce the strain put on the health insurance industry so that premiums can be reasonable.
We can’t ethically refuse or give substandard care but our government can sure turn them back home at the border. We can also deduct medical costs of the ones that get past the border, from aid we send to these countries.
It is a socialist bastardized godzilla, where the system is short on built-in mechanisms to keep costs down.
Insurance should be a system where individuals could get care in catastrophic scenarios. Instead, its now a mechanism where it helps pay for every bandaid and hang-nail. And, to make sure it self-sustains itself and grows, we are now all dependent on it, and expect it to pay for every bandaid and hang-nail.
Government is the problem!
So they spend a million so they can inject the guy a few months later? Just the round the clock security must have cost a bunch.
Nice or not, it's still FRENCH...
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Yes, government paperwork is part of the problem.
Buy few people ever raise the issue of tort reform.
Part of the exhorbinant cost of medical care is because:
a. Doctors and hospitals have to pay huge insurance premiums.
b. Doctors and hospitals must OVER-test (prescribe a CAT scan for every hang nail and headache!) in order to guard against possible lawsuits.
I hear that Texas now limits the punitive lawsuits to 20% (or 30% ?....or whatever!) of the settlement for actual damages.
Reforms like that are at least a step in the right direction.
Hey, dems need illegals to vote for them - bankrupting American Hospitals is an unintended consequence of their great compassion...
Just so you know, that 47-million uninsured we keep hearing about? It’s estimated that 35-40% of those are illegal immigrants.
Hospitals have begun to use collecting agencies more aggressively in recent years due to non-payment for services rendered, but guess who that’s going to catch? Oh, not the illegal immigrant who disappears into the night the first time someone comes knocking. No, that would be the guy who couldn’t pay his insurance premiums anymore and has nowhere to go.
And the reason those insurance premiums are going up? In part to pay for the services rendered to illegals.
Yeah, it’s a problem.
Car insurance would also be horribly expensive if it paid for your gas, tires, filters, etc.
There it is.
This is the only thing that needs shoved in any lib’s face when they complain about health care costs (in support of nationalized healthcare).
Tort reform in Texas caused a huge influx of the most sued doctors, a 30% drop in malpractice premiums.
Deregulation of insurance companies also caused a 30% drop in insurance premiums.
This is why the left detests the 10th amendment. When a state tries something other than their socialist prescribed remedies, it invariably shows how absolutely WORTHLESS leftist policies are.
So true, and as long as our elected thieves get the best medical insurance that they can force the tax payers to pay for nothing will happen.
A starting point, to clean up this countries messes, is to mandate that the rules that joe sixpack has to abide by the elected thieves must also abide by themselves.
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