Posted on 11/17/2009 12:18:02 PM PST by presidio9
Tax them no more than we tax singles bars where straight people hook-up and have unprotected sex.
Someone had it here, I laughed like mad, so I lifted it and put it on my photobucket page...
People who don't have that are generally less likely to take care of themselves and as a result to be in poor health and consequently in worse condition and less survivable when they show up.
It's and indicator of the nature of the patient, not the health care provider.
Actually, that goes against my 22 years of experience in prehospital care. We had a saying that the odds of surviving a traumatic injury were inversely proportional to the number of homemade tattoos the victim had or their relative worth to society.
Not BS at all. The key term is "medically unstable." That, they have to treat. That doesn't cover much.
Otherwise, it's easy enough to find out. Go to a hospital ER, tell them you have some non-emergency ailment, serious enough but not an emergency situation; say you're having real bad ear pain with dizziness and nausea, or you haven't been able to swallow solids for a year and your heartburn is making you severely undernourished, or you've got such intense gall bladder pain you can't function anymore. Then tell them you have no insurance, no job, no medicare, no medicaid, no ability whatsoever to pay them. You don't own a home and there's no gold in your teeth. See how much medical attention the law requires them to give you. You get a free pass right out the door to the curb.
Like everyone else here, I don't think free medical care is free, or that anyone should be forced to pay for their fellow citizens' care. But the argument that it's already happening is false.
All you needed to do was to say Rev Wright is this guy’s preacher?
Homosexuals are more likely to be carriers and more likely to engage in public sex.
While both heterosexuals and homosexuals may engage in public sex in a bar, both have relatively low occurance compared to bathhouses which tend to be strictly same sex.
But keep on with your blind prejudices.
IAs with GSWs
If this propaganda study is real, where are all the dead illegal aliens???????
The uninsured are more likely to be drug users, go bankrupt, be unemployed, engage in criminal activities too...
Those traits could affect their medical outcome... Here's another little known fact - the most important car insurance "addition" to have is uninsured motorist... why? Because people without car insurance are the ones most likely to cause car accidents. They don't have insurance because some or all of the following: they're irresponsible, they've had so many DUI's their rates are incredibly high, they caused so many accidents - again way high rates, they've lost their license and are driving illegally...etc.
I’d say we’re at #5/6.
There is so much here that is just made up to try and bail out our failing dear reader.
Maybe, but in 2006 there were 119000000 ER visits with 17% of the people being uninsured. That's 20,230,000. I don't think that there are that many drug dealers and gang bangers in the US. I'm going to stick with my original assessment as tendentious bullsh!t with absolutely no factual merit at all.
Odd how Harvard University researchers missed something so obvious that all of us out here in the real world already know it...
Exactly.
It’s like saying people without car insurance are most likely to have an accident and total their car. So what?
"Die in the ER"? What does that mean, actually dying in the ED or does it mean dying later of the presenting injuries in the OR or on the floor?
For crying out loud. Nobody knows the insurance status of a trauma patient!
Douglas (director of the division of sexually transmitted diseases at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) said children and teens need to know about condom use, and should limit their number of sex partners and avoid sex with people who do have many other sex partners."If you are a man who has sex with men you ought to be getting a battery of STD tests every year," Douglas added.
What a stretch of data! IMHO there could be other reasons other than insurance coverage? How about that they like take chances more than those who plan a head?
These are the people who under ObamaCare will get insurance for free..
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