[FromLori]

The dirty democrats think it is a right that you should pay for even ILLEGAL ALIENS!

Palm Beach Post Editorial
The illegal vs. the hospital
Nine years ago, a drunken driver sent an illegal [alien] to Martin Memorial Medical Center, where he ran up more than $1 million in bills. — Today, Luis Jimenez, a former landscape worker who was left with the IQ of a 10-year-old, lives with his mother in a Guatemalan village...

http://www.americanpatrol.com/

[Sacajaweau]

The industry is now technology driven and physicians have to abide.

The problem I have is everyone is on a pill...and is that pill really giving you more years or getting rid of the problem??

I'm using Ritalin as one of the examples. Viagara is next...

Pills have become crutches....

[MaggieCarta]

I honestly don't think that many doctors have thought this thing through. They are in for a very rude awakening when they find that their salaries are sharply limited. If the docs chafe under private sector managed care mandates, wait until they start living under Medicare/Medicaid on steriods.

Anyone who thinks that rationing is not part of the socialized medicine scheme is a fool.

[MaggieCarta]

Thanks for posting this article.

[Le Chien Rouge]

Medicine has become “a business” instead of a higher calling of selfless service, President Obama said.

Just like being a “community organizer” engaged in seeking political office and never working a day in ones life is a higher calling of selfless service while receiving a high 6 figure salary ,sponsored by wealthy contributers, and living in a 7 figure home in a exclusive, Chicago neighborhood.

You tell the ‘em, Barrack!!

sarc//

[DivaDelMar]

Excellent post. Thanks!

[stuartcr]

In the old days, it was easy to understand that a person paid or bartered for medical services. Perhaps now, when medical service costs exceed what the average person can pay, and so many people have gone into debt from medical and hospital costs, it should be considered a right. After all, it is 2009, and what’s the use of having time pass, without things getting better?

[szweig]

The “good old days” when people could pay or barter for their medical service ended in the 60s when the government got involved in medicine and health care. That’s when prices started rising. It’s so obvious it hurts...SSZ

[Red Boots]

What he may not properly do is claim that health care and health insurance are "rights" to which he is entitled at the expense of others.

Well, good luck with that one, because this is exactly how most people do feel.

In talking with friends and neighbors about the health care, the number one theme has been: my health care is just too expensive, so other people must pay for it.

Then they generally (with a perfectly straight face) accuse the pharmaceutical companies of being greedy !

[filbert]

Handy guide to "Rights":

If you depend on someone else to give it to you, it's not a right.