On Dec 5, 7:43*pm, The Real Bev wrote:
On 12/05/10 11:02, Bob F wrote:





The Real Bev wrote:
*On 11/30/10 23:19, Evojeesus wrote:
*On Dec 1, 3:19 am, The Real * wrote:
* On 11/30/10 13:08, Evojeesus wrote:

* And what if you get diabetes, macular degeneration or cancer
* and don't *have insurance? How does that work in corpotocratic
*medicine?

* You show up at the hospital and they take care of you for free. They have
*to do that.

*So if you show up with cancer they have to assign you an oncologist
*and all that and start the necessary multi-month treatments? Is that
*going to to be good quality cancer-care if you don't have insurance?

*I don't really know. *I *know* that people get rotten quality cancer
*care even with 100% coverage (yeah, that's possible) just because you
*choose the wrong hospital which uses the wrong doctors. * Some
*problems can't be cured by throwing money at them. *Maybe expanding
*medical schools and making admissions merit-only would help, but the
*results of that won't show up for quite a while anyway.

*Upon reflection -- yeah, you show up at the emergency room with
*mysterious symptoms which turn out to be advanced cancer and I'd be
*willing to bet money that they wouldn't kick you back out on the
*street.

If you were one of the lucky ones. Ever read the stories of people dumped on
skid road in hospital gowns? It happens.

Yes, but around here we call it Skid Row. *Such people are generally
mentally challenged in some way and are unable to cope in ANY way. That
doesn't make it any nicer, of course, but who is supposed to pay for the
care of such people?

Decent people take care of the unfortunate. Bev Ashley would let them
die in squalor.
Ah, teabaggers. No wonder this psychopathic pathological liar posts
here. Her kind of people: utterly without any decency or ethics or
morals