Posted on 11/17/2009 12:18:02 PM PST by presidio9
Don't go interjecting logical explanations into emotionally-driven statistics!
It does seem to be over the heads of an awful lot of people . . .
I expect if you took random samples of insured vs. uninsured parents, and asked them how high a temperature their young child would have to have before they'd take the child to the emergency room, most of the insured parents would give you a reasonable number while a large percentage of the uninsured parents would say they have no idea, or that they don't have a thermometer in their home so would have no idea how high the child's temperature was. If you arrive at an emergency room already closer to death, you're more likely to die there, regardless of what treatment you get.
Under Peolsi care they just die in Jail? Is that the point?
Screw Them!
If they do not have insurance, they should not be treated in the first place, since their treatment will end up being paid for by the American tax payer.
And don’t forget the “perverse incentive” angle that many don’t get either.
Leftists, in particular, are willfully obtuse when it comes to the effects of their policies on the behaviors of people.
Gosh, I wonder why people stay on unemployment longer when you increase the time and money allowed.
Gosh, I wonder why people on welfare don’t get jobs when we pay for everything they need.
Gosh, I wonder why people demand more healthcare when they don’t have to pay for it.
We at FR saw this coming a mile away.
Treat them.
Then get proof positive of their identity,
and don’t let them go until you have some method of assurance of payment.
BUNK. What an insult to the medical professionals in the ER rooms across America, this is BUNK.
No, those who elect to not carry health insurance are assuming a certain risk and in that deferring a financial risk on me, the American tax payer.
Why should I have to assume a financial risk simply because a few deadbeats refuse to purchase health insurance?
Doctors and nurses don’t know if you have insurance. Are we supposed to believe the receptionist runs into the ER and tells the doctors to quit working on an uninsured patient? Insurance is the last thing on a doctor’s mind while he attends to patients in the ER.
The last time I was in the hospital, I wasn’t even asked about insurance until after I was admitted...from the emergency room.
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Other risk factors?? Like maybe drug use?
How would a doctor know if a patient has money or not?
Are there death panels that assess that sort of thing?
Well, the receptionists should be telling the doctors who is and who is not a paying customer.
If not, those who are responsible and actually carry health insurance will not receive adequate treatment as medical resources and my tax dollars are wasted on deadbeats who refuse to carry health insurance.
President used that same argument. Said “you could get hit by a bus”. City would be responsible for the damage caused to a civilian by an employee.
As would another driver in a car accident (or even on your own car insurance if you have Personal Injury Protection).
By your edict, fire insurance, flood insurance, and hurricane insurance should also be required under penalty of law for home owners and renters. No more “emergency bailouts”. Buy your insurance, cheapskate. The wizard of OZbama.
Is it risky for two men to engage in unprotected sex? Can we tax bathhouses and other places that harbor public anonymous sex?
Correlation does not equal causation. Uninsured people probably take worse care of themselves in general, live riskier lives, live closer to swamped/poor ghetto hospitals, and have different criteria for whether to go the ER.
I think I’ve got it.
A voluntary charity to pay for those who have to have lifesaving emergency room treatment.
We could solicit those who support gov’t healthcare first.
That would be a good idea, but for now, while few such charities exist, those who elect not to carry health insurance should not be treated in hospitals.
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