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Originally Posted by willravel
They have, now three times. That's 1 out of every 18 or so posts. The 'blips' covered a point you said wasn't covered. End of threadjack. If you want to discuss the point instead of sit outside throwing stones at the beautiful home we're building, go right ahead. This thread is going so well that no drive-bys can shake it, but we'd do even better if everyone came in here with something to add, discuss, or learn.
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Sorry Will, what do you mean "no drive-bys" ? I have seen Host do it a couple of times. Slitting throats? Atleast the people with their throats cut will be able to get the finest doctors to sew them up.
Will, you said the French pay 20% of their salary to the cost of socialized medicine, how is that possible here when the bottom 40% of the people in the US do not pay a dime in income tax? Do you propose that we start taxing these people 20% of their income so they can have health insurance?
Someone earning 30k a year would now be taxed 6k to be covered by the government, or will it be just like everything else in this country, the top 50%
will have to carry the burden for the rest?
My recent visit to the ER a few weeks ago, (while washing a pint glass it broke with my hand in it, ripping my hand open and cutting a tendon), when I got there the place was packed, immigrants for a far as the eye could see.
When I was triaged I asked the nurse if it was always this crowded and she told me it was, because they know no matter what they will be treated.
This hospital has set up a "fast track" section to treat the "true" emergencies,
while leaving the people who use the ER as a doctors office to wait.
I am sure the people using this ER as a doctors office contribute to the high cost of the system. Will this hospital ever recoup the money they spent treating these patients? Or will it be passed on to others with insurance and their carriers?
The system needs something, whether it is socialized or not will be the big debate, but it somehow needs to be reformed.