Posted on 06/10/2007 11:26:49 AM PDT by libertarianPA
It costs money to treat gunshot wounds and such.
Actually they should close Detroit St. Louis, Philadelphia and Cleveland.
What was the population of Detriot in 1960?
What is it now?
hospitals.....farmers....auto companies...if you are so poor at running a business, then you deserve to go out of business....
The pattern of delivery of health and medical services to consumers (patients) will alter tremendously over the next decade.
Already there are walk-in clinics in Wal-Marts, and urgent-treatment centers that are free-standing apart from hospitals, where what once would have been an emergency-room visit, is now treated as a walk-in. These places are usually not recognized by insurance companies and certainly not by Medicare-Medicaid, because they are on a cash basis (or credit card), giving the urgent care, and sending you back to your personal physican with their recommendations, but their relationship pretty much ends when you leave the premises.
What this amounts to, is the availability of care based on the ability to pay, a most personally responsible manner at which to look at delivery of medical services.
Sure, this urgent care costs a lot when it is called upon. Emergency room care costs a lot too, but this way, the care is rationed only dependent upon your ability to pay. The thing is, they will look at you without sending you through triage first.
After all, what is your time worth?
Crime and obesity/diabetes. Those two do it. Diabetics have some of the most uncooperative wounds, the longest healing times, the most complications—not to mention a high rate of other problems. Given the high inicidence of it in blacks and how prone to violence that community is and the minute emphasis on education, well, this is what you get.
I’m in Memphis it’s what you see here. At least three shootings last night. No one wears a seatbelt. Few pay for their care. Almost all are obese or gangsters. Sad state of affairs.
It was nearly 2 million in ‘50-’60, and is down to below 900k today. Ain’t communism grand ?
The latest estimate I could find was 835k.
Yet they have no clue...
Not true. In Phoenix nearly every hospital is near insolvency because they are required by law to supply free healthcare to illegals.
I agree and many use the taxi-cab service called EMT.
Census estimate for 2005 was 887k, down 65k since 2000 (and I wouldn’t be surprised if those numbers were padded). It’s amazing it hasn’t plummetted to the degree some were estimating (with a levelling off at around maybe 300k by 2030 or so). It’s not just that Detroit lost so many people, but that it lost virtually all its Whites and the Black middle class. Detroit was a majority-White (and Republican !) city until a few decades ago. Hard to believe it ever was.
As a Detroiter who has recently moved to Philly, I must they don’t belong in the same breath. Philly is a huge improvement over Detroit.
As a Detroiter who has recently moved to Philly, I must they don’t belong in the same breath. Philly is a huge improvement over Detroit.
Hey, I have a question - last time I was in Detroit, there was a raodsign that said “Police Entrapment Zone”
What in heavens does that mean?
true, i stand corrected on these points...however, the feds do pay farmers not to grow crops...and the only broke farmers i know are ones with IQ’s below 6.........
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