[vaudine]

Cutting health care for illegals has gone to court in several states and the courts have ruled that illegals must get everything that is made universally available to everyone else. Thus the straw man of whether or not illegals will get Obamacare --they will get it. Obama and Dems get this (most are lawyers) and they are offering a "straw man" that will pacify some and be knocked down by the courts if Congress writes them out of the health bill.

As for your brilliant idea that drs. just refuse Medicare and Medicaid patients, some do not accept--private practices drs., which limits specialists to many children and elderly. For those ER and hospital drs. they cannot refuse because the hosp. must accept them--or all could go into private practice and leave ER's unstaffed.

FYI--all drs. have to retake boards every 6 yrs, and a friend of our daughter says he is hanging it up this year because of all the hassle with studying, trying to get paid, govt. interference, etc. ER physicians are a specialty and must be highly knowledgeable in so many fields to do their job, and they make a flat salary. It is not that large for all the hours and trash they put up with. He will be only the first of many because of attitudes like Chris's and Obama's admin.

vaudine

[org.whodat]

For you information, there would be plenty of doctors if the AMA had not rigid the amount of medical school and the amount of students.

Second if you supported free enterprise you would be opposed to all forms of government payments and not be praising some silly court opinion. Since I fail to recall anywhere in the constitution that it grants judges the authority to spend tax payers money for anything.

The judges opinion anyway was only for emergency service, and sorry doc's have hid behind this to fatten their wallets on all sorts of procedures out side of emergency room treatment.