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Nearly all wind up in emergency rooms because they have enormous difficulty navigating the increasingly fragmented, complicated and inflexible health-care system. Because of lack of alternatives or force of habit, they use hospitals, often several in the same city, for care that could be provided far more cheaply and effectively in outpatient settings. Many suffer from the phenomenon known as "extreme uncoordinated care."

Sounds like laziness to me

1 posted on 10/19/2013 10:37:13 AM PDT by Java4Jay
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Lawyers account for another 21 percent.


2 posted on 10/19/2013 10:39:33 AM PDT by First_Salute (May God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
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Obamacare is the pinnacle of wealth distribution


3 posted on 10/19/2013 10:40:08 AM PDT by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.)
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and we knew this 20 years ago, this looks like a federal agency trying to justify itself by copying someone else’s work.


4 posted on 10/19/2013 10:40:50 AM PDT by dila813
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This will be solved by the death panels.


5 posted on 10/19/2013 10:40:55 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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Don’t worry. Obamacare has a provision for dealing with the 1% .. They call um death panels.


6 posted on 10/19/2013 10:41:14 AM PDT by cableguymn (The founding fathers would be shooting by now..)
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Many suffer from the phenomenon known as “extreme uncoordinated care.”

Another disability?


7 posted on 10/19/2013 10:41:39 AM PDT by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.)
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It’s no coincidence they’re pushing this in the schools right now.

Prepping little johnny for the death panel rejecting his grandfathers heart surgery as ‘too expensive’ and a ‘waste of resources’.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3080942/posts


8 posted on 10/19/2013 10:42:05 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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9 posted on 10/19/2013 10:42:29 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule the all)
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so my elderly inlaws...get all their meds...have had multiple surgeries for knees and shoulders and one broken femur..bypass surgery, numerous mri's for this and that, plus xrays, and lab tests as well....they go in for any cold that last more than 24 hrs.....they collect SS and have for over 20 yrs at least.....

my one sil has had gastric bypass, is at least two foot surgeries, visits to the eye dr and of course hysterctomy....on mulitple meds and seems like she sees the dr every other week....also back surgery...all on the public dime since she got "disabled" and was on SSD from the early 20's until early 40's, then worked for a few years before she got "disabled" again...turns out she is diabetic, took horrible care of herself and now is facing dialysis and of course wants to get a transplant too....

these three people alone have cost the taxpayer a few million dollars.....three people....

12 posted on 10/19/2013 10:46:51 AM PDT by cherry (.in the time of universal deceit, telling the truth is revolutionary.....)
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Let’s start by refusing heart bypasses and replacement parts to 95 year olds. You can’t rely on the common sense of doctors because they don’t have any objections as long as the taxpayers are paying for it.


14 posted on 10/19/2013 10:48:10 AM PDT by txrefugee
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I’ll bet that these consumers of the biggest portion of the Healy care budget are drug and alcahol abusers and AIDS virus carriers.


17 posted on 10/19/2013 10:50:16 AM PDT by puppypusher (The World is going to the dogs.)
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Liberals always like to put a price on life. Don’t fall for their “you are too expensive to let live” crap. Always respond, “Well, then we should proactively kill you to prevent the risk that you one day might become expensive.”


19 posted on 10/19/2013 10:54:07 AM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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They wind up in emergency rooms....because there is a sign that says no one will be turned away....aka...medical welfare.


20 posted on 10/19/2013 10:57:41 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Criminals account for a lot of healthcare spending too.


21 posted on 10/19/2013 10:58:10 AM PDT by Mark17 (Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Veteran, 70-71)
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We all got set up. Day after day...every other commercial was a drug commercial. 20% of school kids have ADHD and the rest have autism....

My friends grandson went to an autism rehab camp this summer. She finally realized after watching the rehab process...."What a lot of cr**".

22 posted on 10/19/2013 11:00:42 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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If its not taxpayer money, then I don’t care what they spend


26 posted on 10/19/2013 11:11:24 AM PDT by GeronL
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If you don’t give an incentive for the 1% - 5% to save money, then they have no reason to do avoid what they are doing now; and it is an easy remedy! Problem is, it would be an antithesis to government run care. Try convincing people (outside of Free Republic) that you can do something without government taxing it’s people.


27 posted on 10/19/2013 11:13:22 AM PDT by celmak
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31 posted on 10/19/2013 11:25:55 AM PDT by dfwgator
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For people on limited incomes who may not have doctors, insurance, reliable transportation, and often don’t seek attention until it’s too late medical help right on the property can be a godsend. And save hundreds of dollars in pharmacy/emergency room/ambulance costs. Almost any exam or treatment that can be done in a real doctor’s office can be done in the rolling clinic. A trip to the emergency room for flu shots, checkups, prescription renewals, and other non-emergencies can be done for 100-200.00 vs. costing the public health care system about $1,000 a visit.


32 posted on 10/19/2013 11:26:08 AM PDT by erlayman
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While one could easily assume that the poor and elderly take up the biggest chunk of medical care $$$ a study by England’s NIH concluded that it was well-off people who take good care of themselves who were the biggest problem. Their reasoning, which made perfect sense in the world of bureaucrats but met with understandibly scathing criticism when it was released to the public, was that the poor generally didn’t take care of themselves (maybe because they couldn’t afford to?) put off medical care until it was too late and basically just went off on their own and died. The better off, on the other hand, stayed fit, exercised, watched their diets and were quick to seek medical attention. Not only that they were brazen enough to demand expensive treatments that dragged on at much expense before dying. In the topsy-turvey world of medical bureaucrats the achievers were once again seen as the drain on the system.


33 posted on 10/19/2013 11:33:02 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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