Reply #49: That's a nice rightwing argument. [View All]

[sabrina 1]

Where did you get that figure from? Millions of Americans do not go to the doctor at all and wait until they have an emergency before going to the ER which is the only way they will get treated. After being patched up, they have no follow up care.

AND ~ this is very important as rightwingers believe that people who cannot afford insurance and end up in the ER are treated for free. THEY ARE NOT. They get even bigger bills than the insured. Those who can work out a payment schedule with the hospital and if they have no means of doing that, the hospital will help them to apply for Medicaid. So, where is they 'the rest of us have to pay for these irresponsible no good poor working class people' coming from?

We have Medicaid because this society agreed that the poor would always be among us, and that as a decent society we should take care of them, of the elderly, of the disabled and children.

As for letting them die in the waiting room. We are letting tens of thousands die, people who DO NOT WANT TO BURDEN YOU with their medical bills and so they do not go for treatment.

I guess you would have been against Medicare and Medicaid, and SS too, since we all pay for those programs also. This 20% you and rightwingers claim their fellow Americans are costing them. How about the 30% overhead the Private Insurance Industry is costing all of us?? If we eliminated them and went to a proper National Health Care system, it would cost us LESS to cover the poor than it is costing now.

Odd that your anger would be directed at the poor who are sick and not at the greedy corporations who are far more of a financial burden on society and give far less in return than the working poor you are so angry at.