Government currently requires hospitals to provide emergency care regardless of a person's ability to pay. And I support this. Nobody wants an emergency facility asking for proof of insurance or ability to pay before they will provide you emergency care.
But the care is not reimbursed so hospitals have to raise prices on other people who need their services. The problem with this, is that it unfairly burdens the sick with the costs of the indigent. As long as government requires the care to be provided, it should be the Taxpayer who foots the bill if the recipient doesn't pay, not the other people who are sick.
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Either we all pay for their health care, through taxes or, hospitals pay and charge more to those wealthy enough to have access to hspital care.
You decide.
Note: Medical care, the way it is now, is a major cost in the production of cars.
Would you like to keep your health care but have no place to work for you and your children?
I didn't think so.
You over looked the the fact that there are people out there who will not put there kids on their insurance because of the cost to them and then just use the emergency room when they need to as a form of health care. Or they will put their kids on state ran health care because of the same reason.
I like the "be responsible for yourself" way of doing things...it is so much easier that way.
This is not a vote on whether government should mandate providers to deliver care to indigents. They already do. This is a vote on who should pay for it, the government or the other people who are sick.
In my opinion the other sick people have enough on their plate already.
Who do you think the government would get the money from?
"Nobody wants an emergency facility asking for proof of insurance or ability to pay before they will provide you emergency care."
The key word there is "emergency care". What if emergency rooms will immediately turn people away as soon as its determined that it is not an emergency? If someone comes in with nothing but a runny nose, they should immediately be turned away because it's obviously not an emergency.
The government pays for it anyway...er...we pay for it anyway. Which hand do you want to see pay the bills? The right hand or the left? It still comes from the same wallet.
Get rid of all that do not belong here and then see how much money we save. USA first.
Consider this option "I like the
"be responsible for yourself" way of doing things...
it is so much easier that way. "
Much to be said for that point of view.
For example, hire your own Alarm system for your house and your own security services" those that have more, get more.
Pres. Obama properly call this "The OWNERSHIP Society" for "If you have a problem, like Katrina, You are on your own!"
I actually heard this same statement at a local description of the services provided by schools in case of an emergency, say, an Earthquake?
The official response was "You are on your own!"
Great! I asked: "What if parents are at their work place when the quake occurs and a road or bridge becomes useless? Who takes care of the children!"
No, I agree with the President and also dislike the Ownership Society which, if taken to all its logical implications spells A-N-A-R-C-H-Y, or The Law of the Jungle. I would rather we keep civilization and civility a little longer, say, till I check out?
But, you are entitled to your view, if you get enough to agree with it.
Katrina...I love that...we could have told them a year before they got hit by a catagory 5 huricane and you know what? They still would of just sat there like they did.
If you are tought to be responsible and take care of business then you will lessen the blow of a bad situation when it comes along. I have not raised my kids to be government dependant...did you raise yours that way?
If you or anyone else thinks the government is your savior in all times of need...you are looking to the wrong source.
I live in Texas and I do hold my own security over my property first. If somebody breaks in while I am there...I will hold court right them and find them guilty of B&E and sentence them to death by lead injection. After the death sentence is carried out I will notify the local law enforcement. (God I love Joe Horn)
I have done for myself and my family and expect no more of others than for them to do the same.
Big Rooster, Urbs don't do anything other than what their specialty is. They have no knowledge of building your own home, from the ground up, rebuilding the engine in a car, or much of anything. If they hear a window break in the night they huddle up, tremble, and hope the cops get there soon.
My house isn't even visible from the road. Out my back door it is almost a mile to the next road. The cops may be 30 minutes away.
Every house around here has it's own security system, usually a 12 guage shotgun next to the door. Crime is almost nonexistent. I don't have to lock everything up.
What they want us to do is get rid of our system, they call it anarchy, and install their system. Hell, it doesn't work for them, why should we get stuck with it?
They can't believe that things can run pretty smooth without a cop on every corner, and half a dozen locks on every door.
What they have is a surplus of barbarians, but they dare to call us uncivilized.
mchlsrrb, you don't live in a civilized place, not even close. I may have alligators in the yard, but you live in a jungle.
Well, I see it is time to go back to Civics 101.
In the jungle, our ancestors, wherever they came from, found that survival often required the Strength in Unity and in June 6th, 1945, we proved it, again. Thousands of men trained and fed in America, went 4,000 miles to die for others in a beach recently visited by the Presidents of European countries.
Their death to save strangers, who had not asked them to die, was willingly risked in the finest hour of the "Greatest Generation" -Americans all.
From what I read here, too many think it was their mistake and Hitler should have been allowed to win.
Hell Hitler!
Did you listen to Pres. Obama's speech in Cairo?
Did you agree with "Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you!" Is that a reason, good enough, to help other citizens in your own country or world?
What if millions thirst in Central Asia, should we help them, just because they are human, and we wish to remain human?
Sociology experts believe that it was the First Galveston Storm, shortly before the Big San Francisco Earthquake the made mountains of train supplies that first welded our nation into one. E Plaribus Unum.
We felt the great pain of others far away that were worth dying for, just because they were citizens of our same nation. Nothing else is required! What a noble gesture that was, worthy of a Queen or King.
Give me a break, if the "world leaders" really cared about people, Bobby Mugabe would be hanging from a rope. This global crap isn't about compassion, it's about more power.
If you train and support people to be government dependant and take care of all of their needs no matter how moddest they may be, you will end up with a nation of sorry assed lazy people that have nothing all of their lives.
To survive is not really living in my book...I want success for my kids.
It will always come back to the parents and how they raise their kids. Teach them right so I won't have to support them later.