Originally Posted by Cimarron29414

Tully, this is so commonly said by the....left....and it is simply untrue.

We have a very poor man who walks door to door on our street and works day labor. Several days a week, someone employs him for $85/day to mow the grass, trim the bushes, paint the shed, etc. We sometimes split a day with another family if we can't give him a day's work. He's a proud man and wants to live a dignified life. It's been this way for years. In the evening, he takes the bus home. Sometimes, one of us will drive him home if the last bus has run.

This year he had a massive heart attack - dying, EMS, Emergency Room, the works. He goes to the hospital, which in our city just happens to be a premiere cardiovascular hospital. He gets a quadruple bypass done by the same doctor who did my friend's dad. This doc is one of the top 10 in the country. Anyway, Randy spent 2 months in the hospital due to a bad reaction to the drugs and such. After two months it was safe to discharge him, and over time, he's gone back to working.

Guess how much Randy has paid to have a top ten heart surgeon save his life and two months in the hospital? You know the answer. He got the best possible care that hospital had to offer, no different than the care you or I would have received.