TSR said:
Steve said:
TSR said:
Those 8500 now, will mostly not go to the ER.
who are you kidding? yourself?
have you ever seen a person who is already not supporting themselves turn down a benefit,.. let alone not abuse it?
you seem to have alot of faith in that deadbeat you complain about all of a sudden developing a bit or responsibility and not abusing the same system he just abused..
You don't think that now that those 8500 have insurance, instead of having none, that they will find a family physician. Yes I think most will find someplace for medical care other than the ER. Not all maybe but most. Its kinda analogous to the proposition that all people that receive fooodstamps are deadbeats (and some are) but statistics that I have seen show 96% have jobs.
So what you are saying is that by increasing the amount of visits to general practitioners- making them free as there will be no cost to those on medicaid and no reason to not go for a cold, you will decrease the amount of visits to the ER?
You couldn't be further from reality in this. Yes, I understand that it was a premise by the fool in charge, but he doesn't even have a license to law practice in his home state, what makes you think he understands a thing about practicing medicine?
When you fracture you leg, where do you go? I have yet to go to my family practitioner. I've been to the ER more than once.
When you are truly sick with an emergent condition, do you go to the family practice physician? No. Why? Cause they can't get you in as it is. Call them, when you get the answering machine message, if your condition is urgent, please hang up and call the ER.
Now, plug even more people in the normal every day family practice and what are you going to do? Extend the time to be seen for the cold, flu, chicken pox, etc. etc. etc.
Now you have a real problem. ER is full, regular doctor's office has a wait longer than you've experienced before because Orangejello and that is pronounced Oh-ranj-al-oh decided to take all 15 babies to the doctor and spend an extra 20 minutes a piece because she's gotts her questions and it is free cause Obama-bin-ladan done told her, and they are good questions, don't you worry. Like, why lil Ray-Ray always pee the bed when he drank a large coke rights before going to sleep.
The office can get you in 4 days from now, or if it is an emergency you can go wait in the ER. But to be seen there, you will need to be dying because the guy that used to be able to be seen in a day or 2 to adjust his heart meds, will be in front of you because he is passing out or in congestive failure- he too, had to wait too long for his normal doctor. But hey, at least he isn't bleeding out like the trauma victim.
We had a system where even the poorest of the poor was seen. Now we will have a system that will be very broken.
You can't carry 6 gallons of water in a 5 gallon bucket. We had a system to deal with the extra gallon that didn't fit. Now you don't.
And there wasn't as many without care as there will be. Insurance is the "term" your caught up on. Who cares about insurance. It won't save your life. CARE- that is what you need. More people had access to it before than they will after.
If you're still alive, I'll tell you I told you so. If not, you will have figured it out. It's a great time to be older, good luck with that.