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

To: bentway who wrote (10936)	10/31/2009 11:37:43 AM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

No, they won't. If you don't believe me, walk in to a hospital and ask for a check-up, tell them you have no insurance and won't pay. There are some other options, but it is true this is an area that needed attention in the health care legislation. 250 free clinics or pay based on ability, funded with a few billion dollars would have largely solved the primary care problem for the indigent. They could get free generic drugs dispensed onsite, and it would solve a lot of problems. This is a far more logical approach than the garbage we're ending up with. The county hospital systems does a reasonable job where hospitalization is required, but could be beefed up for a lot less than a trillion dollars. This god-awful legislation is not the best solution, it is the ONLY solution the Left would accept because it takes us one giant step closer to socialized medicine in which everyone receives the least common denominator of medical care, and nobody gets care that is better than anyone else's.