"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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On Feb 1, 12:36?pm, "Eisboch" wrote:
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in
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On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 10:18:57 -0800 (PST), Chuck Gould
wrote:

The current US system is also highly rationed. The rich have access to
the best available care. The poor have no to very-limited access.

I love comments like this.

Unreal.

In my limited personal experience with health care issues, the only thing
anybody has ever asked me was for my BlueCross/BlueShield insurance card.
I've never been asked how much income I make or if I can pay personally
for
"better" care.

Eisboch

If you were poor, you wouldn't have that insurance card.

A significant portion of your insurance premiums are used to reimburse
hospitals for emergency room treatment, sometimes of "sniffles" etc,
for poor families. The emergency room (of some hospitals) is the only
place these families know they will not be turned away for lack of
resources.

We are already delivering health care to the poor, in the most
conceivably expensive manner possible.

Don't want to pay for health care for poor folks? Maybe a $100 or so
of your current health care insurance premium already goes to that
purpose. Let's buy health services for the poor at a reasonable,
rather than a premium cost.

Actually only part of what you say is true. We need to reconsider the
emergency room. When I required a hospital visit while in Italy a few years
ago, they have the ideal solution. Translates as "First Response". Is like
a clinic doctors office. Is free to everybody, even Americans. Is an
office with a doctor, nurse, aids and clerk. Is for all the minor stuff.
Old lady had sore ankle, I had a toothache. No major tests, they question
you, look at you and in my case, gave me a pain killer, and prescription of
Antibiotic and pain medicine. If I had to have more, I would have had to go
next door to the hospital itself and then I would have to pay. No free
hospital for legal or illegal aliens. We have them go the ER, where for
liability reasons, they give a couple $k in tests even if the kid is in with
the sniffles. Plus bogs dwn the system that is trying to deal with major
trauma. Set up a separate office, and so what if they have to wait a couple
of hours. If they are having a heart attack go to the ER, if you got a sore
knee, sniffles "first response". and if you show up at the ER with the
sniffles, expect to pay lots. Even if you do not have money, expect to have
to come up with some money.