When you go to the hospital, just speak Spanish, tell them you're not a US citizen, have no ID and they'll treat you immediately.
On Aug 20, 2:37 pm, CaliforniaLuis <[email protected]> wrote: > From working in the ER for 20 years, I have seen just how restrictive > and penny-pinching corporate healthcare is... > > Your child has a horrible earache at 2 AM? The child is screaming in > agony so you drive to the local ER. The ER staff calls your insurance > company/HMO for authorization only to be denied because it is not a > "life-threatening emergency". What do they instruct the ER to tell > the parents? Give the child some Tylenol and go to the walk-in clinic > at 8:00 AM. > > Vomiting your brains out in the middle of the night because of food > poisoning? Go to the ER because you can't stop vomiting...DENIED! Go > to your primary physician when his office opens. > > Your child has a high fever. You can't seem to bring it down. Unless > the fever is over 101 when you arrive at the ER, you will be DENIED! > Go to your pediatrician's office when it opens in the morning. > > Get into a car accident and you need to be admitted to the hospital? > You are 100 miles from your insurance/HMO's contracted > hospital...DENIED. Unless you are critical and unstable, you are put > into an ambulance and transferred to your contracted hospital. Most > of the time, your contracted hospital is not a Trauma Center so you > will get inexperienced and substandard care. > > Gee, in any of these scenarios, if the patient would of had government > insurance (Medi-Care or Medicaid), they would have been APPROVED. In > fact, the ER would not even be required to call first for > authorization. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Don't listen to people like Kama, OhioMark, Lew, LadyBug, and Ms. > Con...they couldn't be more WRONG. They have no real world > experience. They are only sounding boards of the pundits. Nearly > all nurses and doctors support the "public option" (as does the > American Medical Association). We have a perfect opportunity to > reform healthcare and I have a feeling we are going to give in to the > Republicans and BLOW IT! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
