Posted on 06/16/2010 7:44:21 PM PDT by Gondring
(AP/CBS) Uninsured and too broke to pay for medical care to treat her painful shoulder injury, a Niles, Mich., woman shot herself in the same shoulder and went to the E.R. in hopes of obtaining free medical care.
By law, hospitals must treat emergency patients even if they don't have insurance.
Kathy Myers' troubles started when her 80-lb Golden Lab yanked on his leash during a skirmish with her Chihuahuas. The big dog yanked Myer's shoulder as well, injuring her rotator cuff.
After a month of agonizing pain, the unemployed 41-year-old used her in-laws' gun to take matters into her own hands. She placed icepacks and pillows around her head and neck, and then pulled the trigger, according to Wood TV 8 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Myers says she made a rational choice: she had hoped that the doctors who mended her flesh wound would also fix her rotator cuff.
But her plan didn't work out quite the way she had hoped. Last Thursday doctors treated the bullet wound, but instead of fixing her injured shoulder, they gave her some antiinflammatory drugs and sent her home.
Though shooting yourself to get medical care may seem a bit extreme, Myers told reporters at WSBT-TV in South Bend, Ind., that she has no "suicide wish" and that she "wants to live" despite her problems.
And her problems may only be increasing. Besides being in even greater pain, Myers might have to go before a judge to face a charge of firing a weapon within city limits.
Myers, who recently lost her job with an Indiana hazardous-waste removal company, is one of 1.2 million Michigan residents without health insurance.
And there are still those clueless FReepers who don't understand why so many people feel there was a need for a health care bill. Unless and until peoples' concerns are understood and addressed, conservatives will appear to be out of touch and lacking compassion.
uh-huh
Obama has already solved this problem, what’s your point?
Dumbass.
Speaking of clueless. Zot.
Maybe is she didn’t spend money on things like arm tats she could saved up some money for a trip to the doc.
She can purchase health care in Michigan at bargain basement prices...especially if she is not employed. It is a program through the state.
Stuck on stupid.
Health care is not a right.
How is ****ing yourself up to cheat the system a conservative thing to do?
stupid and sad
She could have shot herself in the head and saved a lot more in future healthcare costs, oops I better not give her any ideas...
There is no such thing as a Golden Lab. Yellow lab, yes. Golden Retriever, yes. Golden lab is a fantasy - sort of like an Obama birth certificate.
And an 80 pound dog, the total cost of which probably exceeds health insurance payments.
I think Gondring is being sarcastic. Otherwise Gondrig is as stupid as kathy MYers.
People need the Gov. to hire someone to take care of their dogs.
Show me in the Constitution where I am responsible for this woman’s problems.
I’m not with out compassion and give to charity and church but if government would stay out of my pocket, I could and would give even more.
I helped my sister financially through a very hard and long period. I could have helped her even more if not for hellacious taxes I already pay.
Do we need a health care plan whereby those who have, have to filter their charity through a rapacious government? Not no but hell no!
As it has always been.
The problem with devising an idiot-proof health care system is that there’s really no upper limit to idiocy.
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