[Rhodes22-list] Politiical- More Bad News About McCain Health Plan comment by Ugh

[Herb Parsons]

The ERs are being used for this, but you're overlooking the nature of 
what's involved. You have to go and wait, typically for anywhere between 
3-8 hours for "minor" issues. This discourages the "I don't feel good, 
let me go see the dr" stuff that Brad and Ed are talking about.

Personally, I'm not happy with that either. My guess is that they could 
clear up about 70% of the backlog at ER's by having an INS office there 
as well.


Ben Cittadino wrote:
> Brad and Ed;
>
> Brad- you're forgetting something. We are already paying for healthcare for
> the uninsured. It's illegal for ER's to turn people away, insured or not. We
> are just paying more, getting lousy care (because ER's are not set up to be
> primary care providers), more expensively (because ER's are overkill (pardon
> the pun) in most situations, and we taxpayers are footing the bill anyway.
>
> Ed- the second post is from the AP, not NYTimes.
>
> Best,
>
> Ben C.
>
> Tootle wrote:
>   
>> Mr. Philadelphia Lawyer,  The New York Times has been taken over by
>> Communists.  Your source material is too biased.  Find something with an
>> American viewpoint.  
>>
>> Consider an alternative local newspaper such as:
>> http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.asp?brd=2737
>>
>> How is your retirement funded?  Or how was it funded?  See your local
>> Philadelphia newspaper:
>> http://www.thebulletin.us/site/index.cfm?newsid=20179546&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=576361&rfi=8
>>
>> Or since you like Times in the heading, consider the:
>> http://www.washingtontimes.com/
>>
>> Or just go to church on sunday and get their bulletin.  Read something
>> other than that Communists Rag.
>>
>> Ed K
>>  http://www.nabble.com/file/p20218848/Philadelphia%2BBulletin.gif
>> Philadelphia+Bulletin.gif 
>>
>>
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