Posted By: Glenn Silver R.N., BSN  on Wednesday, August 20, 2008

I work in an ER and this is sadly more fact than fiction. What some do not realize is that there are more and more Americans that cannopt afford their health care so use the ER as a primary care alternative. This is not what they were designed for, but this is what they are becoming. If you think it is bad now, vote for socalized medicine and you will need to bring your sleeping bag and tent!

Posted By: Roxie Harbert  on Friday, August 22, 2008

My questions is why do you want to punish the honest hard working Ameicans who make 250.K and above?  They are the ones who finance  welfare and other government programs. When did it become a "bad" thing to be successful in America? I know! When you want to appeal to the masses that feel entitled. Start punishing the successful Americans and there will be no incentive for hard work anymore. Then you'll have what you've asked for. A country that can no longer depend on the upper middle class to supplement all the free services. Oh, what will you do then??  

Posted By: SILVERSTREAK  on Tuesday, August 26, 2008

How about taxing the hedge fund managers who make, on average, 892 million dollars a year and pay only 15% in taxes?  Gee, these poor guys have hardly anything to live on.  Do you really expect THEM to help finance health care or education?  You must be crazy!  You might think this was an America value???? ::sarcasm::



We are living in Gilder Age II where the obscenely rich want to become stinking rich and the stinking rich want to become filthy rich.  The odor is amazing.

Posted By: Doris Vician  on Wednesday, October 08, 2008

We need national universal health care like the UK, Canada, France, Germany.  Employers can no longer afford to provide health insurance for employees.  Health care should be considered a right and not a privilege.  We need to get rid of for profit insurance outfits that pay enormous salaries to CEO's and have to worry about stockholders.  Some enlightened Republican said that all Americans have access to health care because they can go to Emergency Depts.  Do you realize that some emergency depts. refuse care if the problem is not deemed emergent?  It does happen.  I am a retired Emergency Dept. nurse who saw waits in my dept. become as long as 6-10 hours for non-urgent conditions.  We refused no one but the billing dept. sure tried to collect and ED care is many times more expensive than seeing a MD or alternate in their office.  

Posted By: Good Life  on Wednesday, October 08, 2008

And if people could get routine care there wouldn't be nearly as many people needing critical care.  Prevention is cheaper than holding out because there is no money.