I agree with Hiltzik - we’re too cheap to pay doctors for office visits but we’ll happily pay them more to treat sick patients in the ER.
That’s the system so-called conservatives defend. After all, its only money, right? If patients go to the ER sick as a horse they can treated faster because the doctor makes more money. But we won’t pay doctors to keep those same patients from getting sick in the first place.
No wonder our health care costs are out of control.
I’ve never abused medical care a SECOND in my life! I suffered for two years with a debilitating hip to the point where the ball was FLAT! No insurance. NEVER once abusing “free” medical care. Almost died. Nothing is free. I pay my way. Too bad the parasites screw it up for everyone else! This is NOT a partisan problem! ER’s teeter on bankruptcy all the time.
Funny.
That's the classic argument for every trojan horse foisted on society by the anarchist-progressives to implement the Cloward-Piven national collapse.
Compassion for the benefit of unions, the indolent, the professional "poor" and the explosion of welfare by many other names.
There's a limit to everything.
It sounds so great, doesn't it. Spend more and more so there is no disease, no hunger, no deprivation of what would otherwise be called luxuries, but only for the idle, the unproductive, the quick to arson, mayhem and senseless destruction.
Nothing is too much, considering the alternative. A nationwide conflagration is unthinkable.
Until it isn't.