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To: ROCKLOBSTER; kabar
Medicaid people should go to free clinics for ALL medical services except actual emergencies. Those clinics should be staffed by med students, volunteer doctors and nurses, and volunteer office workers.

The only people who should be in emergency rooms are people with injuries which require more than a bandaid and some iodine.

Medicaid people should not be going to private physician offices causing their costs to skyrocket. (I took my grandchild to the pediatrician several years ago and on the sign-in list where you were to put who was the responsible person for payment, almost 80% had written "Medicaid.")

There was a reason that many years ago hospitals had "charity wards." Hospitals shouldn't be giving Cadillac treatment to people who aren't even shouldering the cost. Do I mean they should be denied treatment? No! However, I do NOT think they need to be in fancy rooms with TV, phone service, and picking their meals from a menu. That should be for people who cover their expenses when the bill is paid.

335 posted on 10/04/2009 9:48:20 AM PDT by Miss Marple
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To: Miss Marple
It's a brave new world these days. The days of common sense and obvious economic moves seem so far in the past.
355 posted on 10/04/2009 10:26:56 AM PDT by rodguy911 (HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE--GO SARAHCUDA !!)
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