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----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Spott" <rsp...@cspott.com> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 10:08 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] health insurance > If they use it more, would they have potentially expensive health issues > caught faster? > > Again, from my experience in the ambulance, poo' people are more likely to > get REALLY sick because they have no preventative care. > I don't know about that. From my EMS experience, since 1977, we spend too much time playing the medicare/medicade taxi, for trips we should absolutely not be doing. The outlook is that they have medicare/caid, we have to carry them because they don't have a car, to the ER at 2:30 am, because they are drunk, or because they have a cold, etc. How is that helping? And an outlook that will get me labeled, but it appears to me that the medicare/caid folks are (absent of meth or other addictions) often the best over fed. A dear friend of mine has spent too many lifetimes in the ER as an RN, and she puts it simply - if you have trauma, if you have dangerous medical problems, she will lick the blood off of you if that is what it takes. (Note to all, its a phrase, not an action) If you have a cold? Why are you bothering me? GOMER! I fear I am digressing - no one could notice that misuse of EMS is a pet peeve could they? > Another example: My $10-my-wife-hates-the-job-he-does barber was telling > me > he *was* on high blood pressure meds because his resting blood pressure > was > 130/90!. He stopped taking the meds because he got hives from them. I told > him he should go back in and get the proper meds as his blood pressure was > pretty darn high. He won't because he cannot afford to go in for a basic > office visit.. Great, now I get to transport his behind to the hospital > when > he is gorked out from an aneurysm. > No clinic nearby that has a sliding scale? (Everywhere has those now a days) We are talking a minor visit here, under 100 bucks at full rate. Just a med change. Priorities? > Since he has no basic health care he will probably not get anything > besides > basic life supporting care at the hospital (or if he does, it will break > him) and I will either pay the cost of his bankruptcy (in higher interest > on > my CCard) or I will pay for his long term care. > > Great, another mouth to feed. > Versus going on another plan that may very well still be another mouth to feed? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
