While listening to them try to get admitted, I was full of compassion (yeah, we conservatives do feel that). I remembered that I didn't have insurance when my two chilkdren were born because we were self-employed and couldn't afford it. I had to pay up front before being admitted to the hospital, and I was out collecting money owed to us the morning my water broke.
It was a scary time and when I saw this young Hispanic couple who didn't seem to have much, I was seriously thinking about giving them the $100 bill I have kept hidden in my billfold for years against the day I might need it. When they said they had Medicaide, I knew I had already given them enough.
I hope your grandson is getting better. :-)
Yes, I know what y ou mean about compassion. We conservatives do have the real kind and I have been there. But most of them aren't even on medicaide, they just walk in and get the services.
We, too, paid for two of our children, had insurance with the first. When our second child was born, my husband, a policman at the time, was working about 3 other jobs to come up with the money to pay for the baby's birth. He had some complications and had to stay 2 more days with expensive tests being run and we had to borrow money to pay also. It would have never occurred to us someone else should have to take care of that responsibility for us.
Thanks for the good wishes of grandson, he is doing fine.