America's disappearing ski bum

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.

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Cheers, Bev
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"I don't care who your father is! Drop that cross
one more time and you're out of the parade!"

On Dec 4, 9:46*pm, 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.


Bull****. Why don't you test that hypothesis and get back to us?

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.