“According to Harvard, 44,000 Americans with treatable problems (disease or accident) die because they do not have access to adequate healthcare. So I guess that ‘free’ emergency room treatment isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.”The point there is that the ER is fine for acute problems, but mostly worthless for chronic ones.Sure, they’ll give you bypass surgery for the heart attack, but they won’t pay for your blood pressure, cholesterol, and anti-clotting medications. They’ll amputate the foot with gangrene, but they won’t pay for your lifetime of insulin-dependent diabetes. Etc.etc.
My daughter’s Austrian paediatrician is an Anglophile who travels over to Britain fairly often. We usually end up chatting about the English and English counties/countryside but she kept ragging the NHS. We didn’t want to contradict her too much but we have stated on several occasions we were more than happy with the NHS and provided anecdotal accounts.
Last month she finally agreed that the care my daughter had been getting in Britain prior to moving over to Austria was far better than what she was getting in Austria now (they have universal healthcare but through insurance schemes not unlike Switzerland & Germany).It has proved almost impossible to get a multi-disciplinary, multi-pronged and acceptable to all approach to her care which we had in the UK.We were gob-smacked with her volte-face.
That’s because you haven’t lost your house yet. The Republican health care plan requires you to lose your house before you can get “free” care, and it’s only emergency care. If you need dialysis or chemotherapy, you die. It’s the Christian way.
Nope. It was Eric Cantor and several Republican senators who said that we don’t need to insure people, because they can get taken care of at the emergency room. Google “Republican Emergency Room Care” (though several of the hits are clever satire).
Actually the government doesn’t pay for that “free” healthcare, for which they bill you retail, since you don’t have the clout to negotiate better rates. It’s the next guy in the ER, and the next, and you and I.
Darsan54 Premium Member over 10 years ago
Seems to me Conservatives were already complaining about this arrangement. Something about a culture of dependency and 47 percent something or other?
Enoki over 10 years ago
So, what he’s saying is that with Obamacare they are making it official rather than optional.
Nebulous Premium Member over 10 years ago
“According to Harvard, 44,000 Americans with treatable problems (disease or accident) die because they do not have access to adequate healthcare. So I guess that ‘free’ emergency room treatment isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.”The point there is that the ER is fine for acute problems, but mostly worthless for chronic ones.Sure, they’ll give you bypass surgery for the heart attack, but they won’t pay for your blood pressure, cholesterol, and anti-clotting medications. They’ll amputate the foot with gangrene, but they won’t pay for your lifetime of insulin-dependent diabetes. Etc.etc.
OmqR-IV.0 over 10 years ago
My daughter’s Austrian paediatrician is an Anglophile who travels over to Britain fairly often. We usually end up chatting about the English and English counties/countryside but she kept ragging the NHS. We didn’t want to contradict her too much but we have stated on several occasions we were more than happy with the NHS and provided anecdotal accounts.
Last month she finally agreed that the care my daughter had been getting in Britain prior to moving over to Austria was far better than what she was getting in Austria now (they have universal healthcare but through insurance schemes not unlike Switzerland & Germany).It has proved almost impossible to get a multi-disciplinary, multi-pronged and acceptable to all approach to her care which we had in the UK.We were gob-smacked with her volte-face.
ARodney over 10 years ago
That’s because you haven’t lost your house yet. The Republican health care plan requires you to lose your house before you can get “free” care, and it’s only emergency care. If you need dialysis or chemotherapy, you die. It’s the Christian way.
ARodney over 10 years ago
Nope. It was Eric Cantor and several Republican senators who said that we don’t need to insure people, because they can get taken care of at the emergency room. Google “Republican Emergency Room Care” (though several of the hits are clever satire).
griffthegreat over 10 years ago
Keep your own swindle policy and join the 57% of folks who have to declare bankruptcy!
kaffekup over 10 years ago
Actually the government doesn’t pay for that “free” healthcare, for which they bill you retail, since you don’t have the clout to negotiate better rates. It’s the next guy in the ER, and the next, and you and I.