Posted on 05/23/2017 6:25:26 AM PDT by Ennis85
So long as Republicans stick to their talking points and carefully selected allocutions, there's enough double talk, flimflam, and amphibology that a listener might think there's sense there. Or at least that the speakers think so. But then there are the unfiltered utterances. It is from these that real revelations come.
Republican congressman Raul R Labrador, for example, declared: "Nobody dies because they don't have healthcare."
Of course not. And no one gets cold because they don't have a coat, and cars don't crash when their brakes don't work.
He later tried to walk his talk back toward reason-world. "I was trying to explain that all hospitals are required by law to treat patients to emergency care regardless of their ability to pay." Which was very important because the Republican plan that he voted for "does not change that".
That sounds better, but it's actually worse.
The original statement is self-evidently idiotic. But the explanation contains grains of semi-truth, so it's misleading and it requires research to realise how fatuous and dangerous it is. An accurate statement would be that most, not all, hospitals are required to treat patients, but only if their condition qualifies as an emergency. And only to the point where they are stabilised.
The original statement is self-evidently idiotic. But the explanation contains grains of semi-truth, so it's misleading and it requires research to realise how fatuous and dangerous it is. An accurate statement would be that most, not all, hospitals are required to treat patients, but only if their condition qualifies as an emergency. And only to the point where they are stabilised.
(Excerpt) Read more at aljazeera.com ...
Why the hell is a Muslim news organization deciding American healthcare????
They better worry about their own dying from acute lead poisoning one day....
In as much as it doesn’t address the high cost of healthcare brought about by illegal collusion, it indeed is ridiculous.
Al Jazeeta??? Really?
Why do you read that crap?
What’s ridiculous is the ‘pubs and dems can get together, use those 535 superior minds we send to DC, and write any health bill, anything at all, and they know the president will sign it. If they can’t get it done under those conditions, the DC swampthings are dysfunctional beyond repair.
First and foremost everyone needs to understand something. Congress isn’t pursuing a bill to provide healthcare. They are fumbling around like a blind dog in a meat house trying to derive a health insurance policy. Mission impossible. This can only happen in a free market by free market insurance providers competing with each other.
You can have the perfect insurance coverage and still have lousy health care. You can also have excellent health care available, but if you can’ t afford it then it is of no value. Government mandates will never change this.
To achieve what Congress is attempting to do will lead ultimately to single payer insurance. It will be VA health care on steroids and will fail miserably.
Exactly! Why post their US-hating word vomit in this public forum. Stop giving them visibility. They should be ignored until they naturally wither up and die.
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