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I also have a facebook ‘friend’ (of a relative) who posted that comment.

My response was:

I don’t think anyone should ever be hungry. So just go to WalMart, fill up the cart, and have someone else pay for it. That would be great.

I think they all ignore me.
(love your site)

So….I make my living in healthcare. Let me assure any squishy folks out there NOBODY in America goes without necessary healthcare. All you have to do is walk into any emergency dept in any hospital with any complaint and you will be treated. Don’t like the way you’re treated? Well you have the right to deny discharge. Can’t understand English….we’ll provide you an interpreter no matter how obscure your language/dialect…oh, did I mention that we can’t put you out the door ’till we’ve satisfied your language issues. Family member in the turd world has a brain tumor? No worries! Bring them to the US, get them into an ER…..we can’t discharge them to any place with treatment standards less then the BEST hospital in the US….oh, and can’t charge them, or their family, for ANY treatment (well actually we can charge them….try collecting from a foreign/turd world nation).

We have the best health care in the world for a reason…American citizens demand it and pay for it. Unfortunately, we’re forced to pay for everybody else, too.

Everyone who posted that in their status I replied ” Everyone should have a new wide screen lcd tv with a bluray player and a Xbox 360 in the back of their suv! But I don’t want to pay for that either! “

Honk.

That’s politics for the Web 2.0* generation, I suppose. A catchy soundbite to disengage your brain…

But you need look no further than the NHS to see what socialised medicine leads to. Why rush to make our mistake?

* A term I despise, by the way.

And don’t get me started on denying the pensioners with macular degeneration the proper treatment until they are blind in one eye already.

They’ve paid into the system all their lives, with no idea it was really a Ponzi scheme.

And when it counts, some of them have still got the goods that the younger generation lack. So NICE can take a hike…

“Oh, and don’t even ask. I mostly use Facebook to keep an eye on those paste-eating nose-pickers from High School…”

On a lighter note, we may get lucky, and the Facebook Generation will all be Darwin Award winners… 😉

The best one (and my personal favorite) I’ve seen so far on Facebook is “…thinks that no one should die because of zombies if they cannot afford a shotgun, or even just a machete, and no one should be mandatorily [sic] turned into a vampire if they get bit by one–or a werewolf for that matter. If you agree, post this as your status for the… rest of the day.”

It’s official: I am the only person on the internet without a Facebook account. Well, I was one of the last members of humanity to buy an answering machine (me and some guy in the mountains of Papua New Guinea) when they were the necessary life accessory, so I’m just being true to form.

OHMIGOD, weirdsister. Is it too late for me to steal that? I LOVE IT!

No, you are not the last, Andrea. Mere mention of the word “Facebook” makes Uncle B’s head spin around in 360 degrees while obscenities spew forth. Which is pretty impressive, so I say “Facebook” a real lot.

What armybrat said times infinity! A guy come into the clinic last week. He flashes his OHP card like it’s a platinum Visa. He says, “Now, I know the gubberments paying you good money to take care of me, and I expect to be treated like anybody else!”

Somedays, I just want to go back to computer science.

Ask not how you can buy healthcare, ask how your country can buy healthcare for you.

Give me your poor, your tired, hell I’ll even take the huddled masses, just make sure they’re legal.

My favourite epithet on the matter was from P. J. O’Rourke (PBUH): “if you think healthcare’s expensive now, wait until it’s free.”

I have a question for Armybrat–and possibly for Bob as well.

The people who use emergency rooms as a primary physician’s office–who pays for them? (And, Bob–what is OHP?)

How would that change if they had health insurance?

And, um. . .after discharge, how do they fill their prescriptions for maintenance drugs such as blood pressure and diabetes medications? Who does followup. . .you know, like a yearly physical, all that stuff that folks with insurance take for granted?

those of us with insurance pay for the ED as PCP users. The hospital charges higher prices to those of us who pay to cover those expenses. Your insurance negotiates a rate with the hospitals and doctors, who put that in their “cost of doing business.” Many receive their drugs either free or low cost from the pharm companies themselves thru their charity care programs. And Walmart and Target pharmacies have a staggering number of drugs (last I saw they encompass ~80% of the most prescribed drugs) for $4/month, $10/3months- or roughly the price of a couple of 2 liter bottles of soda. Most of these people do not engage in regular healthcare…they operate in crisis mode, showing up for care only when they are sick. But that said, many physician offices provide low cost or no cost care on a sliding fee scale. Or there is the public health clinics available in almost every city in America…and should you think the care there inferior, I use the public health clinic where I live.

Can’t hark my cry, I’m sorry. That would be “Oregon Health Plan”. It’s one of our Medicade varients.

Weasel…
Further ammo to shoot at the mouth-breathers who buh-leeve Barry Boy when he said that the bill doesn’t provide free health care to “illegals”….
Yesterday some Senate Committee on whatsitwhoosits got busy drafting a “minor change” to the bill currently being pushed. Seems like they’d always MEANT to exclude the illegal horde, but didn’t really think they needed to ACTUALLY use language that excluded them. Ace posted this yesterday.
http://minx.cc/?post=292177
OOOOPS!

OK then, There are people like me. Doctors are such a waste of money or time.
First wife – Diagnosis; River Fungus… Died October 9, 2001 with fully metastasized cancer.
Second wife – Diagnosis; Migraines… Died February 17 2009 with a massive brain tumor.
Yep, I have a lot of faith in the medical profession. Enough faith to consider the third medical option viable… The trusty 9mm. I have no insurance and no desire to ever see a doctor again!