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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (68899)	7/18/2009 7:51:25 PM
From: Sedohr Nod	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224705

I'm a little surprised that no one has said that $14,000.00 for a night's stay is ridiculous. My ER trip & overnight stay a few years back cost ME a tenth of that, and I thought it was robbery for the services received. The wife keeps telling me that I am way behind the times, but damn, I like to see some correlation between the service and the price.

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (68899)	7/18/2009 9:49:58 PM
From: TideGlider	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224705

I have gone to the hospital for stroke like symptoms, in a life-mobile with physician on board, had every test in the world including nuclear stress test, MRI and sonic resonance among others, 4 day stay and nothing close to 14K. If your bills was 14 K it seems to me that Medicare is gouged a lot. I once was with a shooting victim who had all his guts outside the cavity with no chance of survival and they called in a surgeon to remove his already exposed gall bladder. Another time I had a victim who was tossed of a second tier in a prison, his head smashed on a stationary stainless steel table seat. His head was flattened. His vitals were nearly nonexistent. He was brain dead and yet they called in a surgeon to remove his kidney. I asked the doctor why? He said because it was life threatening and he smirked. The first case was Medicaid and the second was a billing to the state prison. There is too much fraud, but I doubt Obama will change that. Seems to me the people who don't need or deserve things get them and the folks who are in need have to wait. Will Obama stop prison inmates from getting transplants or sex changes? I doubt it.