Starry-eyed Liberal Meets the Reality of Medicaid Patients

American Thinker ^ | August 20, 2013 | M. Catharine Evans

[Sopater]

President Obama addressed health rights in his August 17 radio address, but he didn't mention what happens inside an inner city emergency room. Wait until his lemmings find out what having a "right" to healthcare means according to the single-payer collectivists. If the dulled masses, schooled in the evils of capitalism these last forty years, don't wake up in time to the connection between free market principles and the genius of American medicine, the progressives' long yearned for single-payer system, already in the works, will become a reality.

Those of us in the healthcare field have seen up close what government programs like Medicaid mean in terms of a "right" to medical care. Our emergency room happens to be in a major southern urban area. If any one of the 20-somethings who voted for Obama would be willing to volunteer for at least a month at our facility, I can almost guarantee these same hoodwinked young people would be singing the praises of capitalism, warts and all.

Just ask Samantha (name changed to protect identity). With so many college graduates looking for work, we recently hired the 24-year old at our registration desk. Samantha is a die-hard liberal, but it just so happens her boyfriend is a 28-year-old conservative-minded accountant. When first hired about three months ago, she talked a great deal about their political differences.

Samantha was very sympathetic to the plight of the poor and their need for assistance. Moreover, she felt her boyfriend didn't understand the situation with this segment of the population which would be unable to survive without help from the government.

After one month of doing her job registering 45 ER Medicaid patients daily for various reasons

[Sopater]

Life experience is one of the greatest cures for liberalism...

[Sergio]

bkmk

[workerbee]

Outstanding article.

[spankalib]

“...the ruling class of government planners have eaten up more of our financial resources, through redistribution to corrupt companies, NGO’s, Baby Mamas and non-profits than any greedy capitalists.”

True that.

[DLfromthedesert]

Note: These Medicaid patients don’t want to make an appointment with a doctor, so they use the ER. We’re always told that one of the reasons to extend Medicaid is so they don’t have to use the ER. Well they use the ER.... you and I would have a co-pay when we go to the ER.....they don’t and if they had to pay something they would think twice.

[rlmorel]

Great article. Bump for later.

[Excellence]

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[skinkinthegrass]

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[SumProVita]

This is an excellent article and ought to be required reading on every college campus.

[nutmeg]

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[Travis McGee]

[gogeo]

Samantha no longer thinks everyone has a right to healthcare. She thinks we have an obligation to help those with chronic, genetic conditions and those struggling mothers and fathers truly interested in the welfare of their children.

That's judgmental.

In one incident, a white nurse approached a teenage black mother because another patient in the waiting room reported she heard the child screaming in the bathroom. The teenage mother told the nurse, "that's what's wrong with you white people, you never hit your kids, you think you're all that."

Obviously in need of diversity training.

[ogen hal]

Taking her 4 months to begin to see the light say something about the effectiveness of LIBthink.

[SharpRightTurn]

So Samantha (name changed to protect identity) is another low information, head full of mush leftist who got mugged by reality.

Since leftists deal in emotion, rather than logic, you can try to educate them till you’re blue in the face. It doesn’t do any good. They have to be mugged before it finally sinks in.

[Cyman]

Pretty good article especially when from “the mouths of babes” comes the condemnation of not using corporal punishment with children

[Sopater]

Samantha no longer thinks everyone has a right to healthcare. She thinks we have an obligation to help those with chronic, genetic conditions and those struggling mothers and fathers truly interested in the welfare of their children.

That is still one of the biggest problems with liberalism. They always say "we have an obligation" and then work to impose some tax or requirement to see that their "pet obligation" is fulfilled via gov't.

Most conservatives on the other hand may feel that they have a personal obligation to help [fill-in-the-blank], and choose to do so with their own personal contributions. They may even try to encourage others to help as well, but without compulsion by force. When one is compelled by force to support another's "pet obligation", they have less left over to provide to their own "pet obligation".

[Sopater]

Obviously in need of diversity training.

Who, the "white nurse"? I believe that "teenage black mothers" already "know the score". (/sarc)

[Sopater]

Since leftists deal in emotion, rather than logic, you can try to educate them till you’re blue in the face. It doesn’t do any good. They have to be mugged before it finally sinks in.

It seems that you're right.

[Popman]

This scene protrayed in the article also happens in none inner city hospitals....though not as pronounced....

I live in a nice part of the world and had to go to the local regional hospital...

Walked in the ER and thought I had entered some third world country based on who was sitting in the waiting room...

I was only attacked once by some wackco....

They tried to get my phone by pulling a wackco stunt....

[Cyber Liberty]

Converting liberals, one mugging at a time.