No it's free. As in no money, as in gratis as in nada.
We have a legal mandate from the feds to provide care ( which we can be sued for) but no provision was made for payment. In some areas nearly half of the patients in the ER are deadbeats.
One of the reasons ER visits are skyrocketing and the number of ER's is going down. So don't cry when your local ER shuts it's doors. That will be the price you pay.
We have a legal mandate from the feds to provide care ( which we can be sued for) but no provision was made for payment. In some areas nearly half of the patients in the ER are deadbeats.
One of the reasons ER visits are skyrocketing and the number of ER's is going down. So don't cry when your local ER shuts it's doors. That will be the price you pay.
So, you are saying you don't get paid? Or, do you have a mouse in your pocket, when you say "we"?
I do not agree with a FED mandate for much of anything. Thanks to them, we have OSHA, and the IRS. We have a Department of Energy, which only produces hot air. We have a Department of Commerce that distributes "money for nothing", and more hot air, definitely NOT for free. We have a Federal Monetary system of cards, and print more daily. We have the best security $15 an hour can buy, and take our shoes off while we bend over at the airport.
Amerika is now officially socialist, and there seems nothing we can do. Jorge is giving the keys to a floodgate of illegals, and taking away my children's inheritance, in doing so.
I am self-employed. I pay too damn much taxes, and I'm supposed to get a bill for your work? Bullshiite. If you don't like the job you chose, do another. If you need to close doors, that is the way it goes.
If you are compassionate enough to serve those who come to you, for nothing, I applaud you. But, for petes sake, don't tell me I own you a damn thing, and don't send me a bill!
A very good friends dad was a country Doc in NC. He has been paid in chickens, hams, and okra. He retired with his hundreds of "chidren" all present for the party. His family never went hungry. He had firewood chopped for him, and a stack of quilts that the Smithsonian would cherish. He had helped birth most of those "children", many who were getting old, themselves. He was 75, when he retired. He was 87, when he went to see God.
Medicine is not a substitute God! It just keeps us away from Him a few days longer!
He gives us a proper offer. Faith = life. But, if you look at old Job (there's a whole bookd about him, in the Bible, in case you don't know), you can see He never promised a smooth voyage.
I am sorry if you feel entitlements, but I do not. I live in an earlier age, in my mind;s eye. I see the reality of the follies rendered daily by DC and company. I am self-sufficient, and have earned it the hard way. I have started and owned businesses, gone bankrupt, started anew, and prospered again... ready to do it all over, if necessary! I prefer the freedom of only having to serve one Master.