Posted on 09/29/2009 5:26:06 AM PDT by theothercheek
Judith Miller, an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a FOX News contributor, was given a tour of Gitmo a couple of weeks ago, and reports that ... the detainees get a level of medical care that few Americans can afford - even if they were covered by “Cadillac” health insurance plans, like members of Congress. ...
Assuming the 226 detainees all see a healthcare provider the same number of times a year [each makes] 34 visits [to the medical center] per year – without any co-pays or other out-of-pocket fees. And with a 1:2 ratio of healthcare providers to patients, they don’t even have time to read a tattered copy of People in the waiting room before they’re whisked into an examining room.
(Excerpt) Read more at thestilettoblog.com ...
Giving terrorists a healthcare plan while some Americans have none is the last straw.
Better them getting free medical inside Gitmo than outside setting bombs at hospitals.
“Giving terrorists a healthcare plan while some Americans have none is the last straw.”
Many prisoners get Cadillac plans. My daughter is a nurse and they get prisoners on that floor all the time. One was a hemopheliac that had several treatments costing thousands.
She said that some people have told her that they commit crimes just for the health insurance!
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