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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (3556)	1/3/2008 10:53:43 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

Hopping to the other side for a moment, I was on the scene, long ago and far away, for two genuine emergency patients who, at the time, made this law necessary. My recollection is that, before that law, a person with the means to pay who might be, for example, out jogging without ID and suffer a injury that left him unable to communicate his ability to pay would risk being denied treatment. Seems to me it's a good law. I know I felt safer when they enacted it. Bad law. Why do you say that. Seems to me that the answer would be to send the skinned knees elsewhere while treating all the real emergencies. Turn away from the emergency room the non emergencies rather than turning away the uninsured.

To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (3556)	1/3/2008 12:00:05 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

"I was on the scene, long ago and far away, for two genuine emergency patients who, at the time, made this law (anyone who shows up at an emergency room must be treated and stabilized, regardless of their complaints or their ability to pay for service) necessary." Greed allowed to triumph over compassion is a terrible state. This is one of the reasons I object to those people who greedily want to make you and I pay for the things they want to give away. "For as long as I can remember and even before, people have shown up at emergency rooms with " lots of reasons that did not warrant urgent care. At some point a mechanism may be discovered. I hate ERs because it is so much more expensive than any other avenue. Local hospitals around here have free healthcare days to reduce the pressure of uninsured using the ER for free noncritical healthcare.