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Nine Texans, 2,678 emergency room visits: Should we ration health care?
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| June 17, 2009
| Tom Barlow
Posted on 06/17/2009 11:16:48 AM PDT by Baladas
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No telling how many of the nine were illegal immigrants, but if they were all American citizens, I'm sure the article would've pointed that fact out.
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posted on
06/17/2009 11:16:48 AM PDT
by
Baladas
To: Baladas
I’ve got a question: Nine people, or nine identities?
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posted on
06/17/2009 11:18:10 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
To: Baladas
One of these people visited 145 times last yearThis does not pass the smell test!
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posted on
06/17/2009 11:19:31 AM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
(Once a Republic, Now a State, Still Texas)
To: Baladas
It’s illegal to file frivolous lawsuits. Should it be illegal for frivolous emergency room visits?
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posted on
06/17/2009 11:20:32 AM PDT
by
GSWarrior
To: Baladas
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posted on
06/17/2009 11:20:32 AM PDT
by
esquirette
(If we do not know our own worldview, we will accept theirs.)
To: Baladas
Whatever. If they can pay the bill, this guy has no business to be suggesting rationing.
If I want to spend my money on 500 ER visits, and not on vaccines for “the needy”, its my beeswax, and not some columnists!
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posted on
06/17/2009 11:21:37 AM PDT
by
ketelone
To: Baladas
I think the old soviet union had a pretty good model.
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posted on
06/17/2009 11:21:41 AM PDT
by
RobRoy
(This too will pass. But it will hurt like a you know what.)
To: Congressman Billybob; tioga; secret garden; MHGinTN; Baladas; neverdem
Who are the nine, and what were they “complaining” about every third day?
What did the local ER’s actually DO about the repeat “customers” - OTHER than charge the taxpayers for the “er” (er, error) visits that they KNEW were fraudulent?
See - that 3 million wasn't actually SPENT on these nine patients, it was “spent” (er, sent) to the ER admitting them.
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posted on
06/17/2009 11:21:53 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: Baladas
My sister lives in Montauk and she told me that the illegals out there call the VOLUNTEER ambulance squad and claim emergency to get a free ride to the ER or ObGyn.
She also said that some of the volunteers guit b/c of it.
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posted on
06/17/2009 11:22:11 AM PDT
by
synbad600
To: mewzilla
>>Ive got a question: Nine people, or nine identities?<<
That is exactly what I was thinking. :)
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posted on
06/17/2009 11:22:39 AM PDT
by
RobRoy
(This too will pass. But it will hurt like a you know what.)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
What did the local ERs actually DO about the repeat customersThanks to EMTALA, there's not a lot they can do.
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posted on
06/17/2009 11:22:56 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
To: Baladas
One of these people visited 145 times last year and 554 times in the past five yearsWoW.
No, they weren't illegals. You have to be born here to be that entitled.
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posted on
06/17/2009 11:23:01 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com <----go there now,----> tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
To: GSWarrior
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posted on
06/17/2009 11:23:04 AM PDT
by
RobRoy
(This too will pass. But it will hurt like a you know what.)
To: Texas Fossil
145 times last year, loneliness?
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posted on
06/17/2009 11:23:38 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com <----go there now,----> tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
To: GSWarrior
It’s illegal to call 911 for a non-emergency, as well.
If you go into the emergency room with something that is a non-emergency, you should at the least, have to wait 6 hours to see a doctor.
That should cut down on the frivolous visits.
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posted on
06/17/2009 11:23:40 AM PDT
by
MrB
(Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
To: ketelone
Sure... they paid their bills....
and sure.... they weren’t illegal aliens.
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posted on
06/17/2009 11:24:25 AM PDT
by
MrB
(Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
To: Baladas
Under Obamacare, rationing will be law. :)
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posted on
06/17/2009 11:24:59 AM PDT
by
Tzimisce
(No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
To: RobRoy
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posted on
06/17/2009 11:25:43 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
To: Baladas
For the indigent and Illegals, the ER is their family doctor
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posted on
06/17/2009 11:26:19 AM PDT
by
SMARTY
("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else" Lucius Septimus Severus)
To: mewzilla
Nine people - all nuts, tho this article only says 7. Not buying it.
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/04/01/0401er.html
Here’s an excerpt:
“The report that mentioned the nine high-frequency patients didn’t include reasons for all of those ER visits and didn’t identify the patients because of privacy laws. But Kitchen, a former state legislator from Austin, gave a sketch: All nine speak English; three are homeless; five are women whose average age is 40, and four are men whose average age is 50. Seven have a mental health diagnosis and eight have a drug abuse diagnosis. Kitchen said she did not know their citizenship status.”
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