the new health care?

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Originally Posted by dmek25

it seems like some of you guys are pissed that we actually have poor people in this country. sometimes shit happens. even a nation as great as ours fails once in a while.some people genuinely need help. what are we to do with them? throw them to the curb? this is one major party difference. and why it seems to many the G.O.P is out of touch with main stream America

I'm not pissed that we have poor people. It's the choices that SOME of the poor make that pisses me off.

And while many of the poor are making those annoying choices, it should be noted that not all do. Most do, but most should not be generalized into all. So I'll say that.

But getting back on topic, I can't stand how many of the poor decide to wait until the sniffles turns into bronchitis which turns into pneumonia before ever going to see a doctor. Hell, if you're going to abuse the ER and not see a primary doctor, at least do it before the illness turns into something serious. By the time it gets to pneumonia and they get off their ass to get to the hospital, they're in such bad shape that they need to stay in the hospital for 7 days. If they showed up at the ER during the bronchitis stage they could be sent home same day with antibiotics.

Happens here at our hospital all the damn time, and we have to write a lot of it off, and then jack up the rates we ask the insurance companies to reimburse us just to get by. So when the poor do that, it directly affects your insurance premium.