Yes, of course, evil Conservatives would be glad to use the child's lifeless body to fill potholes in the road - we are just like that.
Conservatives have no compassion for anyone other than themselves necessitating the confiscation of an unlimited proportion of every dime they earn for redistribution to the noble poor.
What I don't understand is all the charity hospitals named after Saints.
The medical system’s a money pit scam - we’re being taken by doctors, hospitals, insurance companies and the government - - and millions of laws that enable the ripoff...
Who do you think pays for the gang bangers shooting each other in Chicago? What’s your estimate on how much it costs to treat someone’s who’s been shot? Do you think the gang banger’s going to come up with the $300,000 - maybe make payments of $5 a month for the next 600 years?
Or a person who walks into an emergency room because no doctor will take them as a patient AND WE GET THE BILL - $10,000 to treat a runny nose.
My position is we create a three tiered approach based on the reality of our world and the wisdom of working AROUND a corrupt system. Corrupt? Salesmen for medical supply companies are often allowed in operating rooms... big money. You’ve seen the lights used in surgery - the one the doctor positions to ‘get a better look’? It has a little handle on it... In the old days they would autoclave it. Today a little disposable cover is put over the grip... comes in boxes of hundreds for a few bucks - YOU pay over a hundred dollars for one. ONE - not one box - but one little disposable cover. Multiply that by thousands of protected medical ripoffs and you can see the webs of the money pit.
And all these groups are ‘donating’ to Congress...
Maybe some newspaper will uncover the deal the Government made with insurance companies over ‘Advantage Plans’... that’ll blow you away.
I’m not a bleeding heart - I’m a realist.
And the gangbanger who doesn’t worry about a $300,000 Hospital bill? He damn sure WOULD worry about a six HUNDRED dollar bill that was deducted monthly from his disability check. There are better ways... with strong incentives that work for citizens and against ripoffs...
When those hospitals - named after saints - charge a 'poor person' five thousand dollars to treat a bad cold in the ER - they don't get paid - by the poor person...
BUT they do write the 'Jesus Cases' off their taxes - SO YOU'RE THE PERSON WHO PAYS.
Actually the Catholic Church might be a good metaphor... if you told me how little the Pope is paid I would be blown away with his humility. But when you throw in free food, free housing, free travel, free clothes, free 'servants' etc etc etc. Then it's not quite as humble.