That is very untrue G. You can go to the ER, but the ER dose not provide meds if you can't afford them because you have no insurance and have to pay full price. ER's just treat the immediate issue. If you have a chronic illness and have no insurance, you are fucked. Not all areas have charity health care systems. People with money don't die because they can't afford healthcare...Period. Healthcare systems in Canada, the UK, Scandanavia, and Germany have shown to be very effective. If you think people in the insurance industry care if you live or die, you are smoking some good shit. They have whole departments that dedicated to finding ways to deny claims so you can't afford to get treatment so they can make a higher profit. That is fact...not hyperbole.
-----Original Message----- From: GMoney [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 8:27 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Latest News on the The Affordable Care Act A lot of Americans WITH money die. This scenario often painted of Americans lying outside hospital doors and dying on their doorsteps because they've been turned away, is a bit of a hyperbole. Yes, the question of adequate health care for low or no income citizens is a problem....it's a problem EVERYWHERE.....but the American system is no more or less devoid of it's moral imperative to care for it's citizens than any other country. There is no big bad group of people in this country who just want to see poor people die and go away. There are genuine differences in ideas about the best way to get the best care to the most amount of people for the least amount of cost. People who oppose the Affordable Care Act are NOT uncaring monsters.....they are people with genuine concerns...and there are a LOT of them. History has shown us that giving everything to everyone simply doesn't work...conversely, relying solely on "the market" to take adequate care of everyone, is equally flawed because you just can't view people as "commodities". Statements like "yeah, it really sucks that you still die in America if you don't have enough money" may get you high fives as your next vegan lunch date, but it's somewhat petty and myopicw hen you consider the reality. On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yeah. It really sucks that you still die in America if you don't have > enough money. > > The US should look at the Scandinavian states and try to emulate them. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:361148 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
