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Originally Posted by reconmike
Sorry Will, what do you mean "no drive-bys" ?
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I meant that you jump in to a thread and post something short and snarky that doesn't add anything to the thread.
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Originally Posted by reconmike
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.  |
Host doesn't do short posts. Also, if people bothered to read his posts, they'd realize that he usually brought all necessary information about the thread subject to the table in one post.
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Originally Posted by reconmike
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?
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Do you have a link explaining that the bottom 40% of Americans don't pay any income tax? Also, no one is suggesting we use the French system, which is way too expensive. I suspect we're doing something more similar to the UK or Canada systems, which are less expensive.
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Originally Posted by reconmike
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?
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Oh good, I was hoping someone would bring up 'immigrants' in here. How dare they get medical treatment!!! They're dirty and foreign, and they aren't desperately capitalist like we are!
The current system was screwed up in that it assumes only people with money deserved to get medical treatment. Then people realized that wasn't fair at all and now hospitals are required to treat everyone.
Under socialized medicine everyone pays a little and everyone gets treatment. It's just like the taxes we all pay for fire protection.
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Originally Posted by reconmike
The system needs something, whether it is socialized or not will be the big debate, but it somehow needs to be reformed.
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Exactly.