bucs90
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What was that pretty name Nance Pelosi called people who didn't want to buy insurance from ObamaCare and all the left agreed and started calling them that also?
I think it was, FREELOADERS... just because they didn't want to be FORCED to buy something
so bucky, you can give it a REST..
I think she was referring to people who dont have insurance, then show up to the ER for dumb shit like a common cold, knowing they'll get treatment, then leave with no intention on paying their bill. Then, the doctors and ER's raise their prices through the roof, causing ALL of our premiums to go up, becuase they recover that loss through people like you and I who DO have insurance.
So yeah, she was right about that. Many people freeload off the ER. And you and I pay for it. Im tired of the free ride, aren't you? Lets FORCE the freeloaders to own up to their own care, and get their own damn insurance.
That would work IF someone without insurance were simply turned away from the emergency room. Just send them home. But we don't do that. Someone without insurance will still be treated at the emergency rooms just as they always have.
ER's do that because it is the law. And the reason it is the law is that it was hard to put nurses working the ER's in the position of turning away a fellow human who was in the ER with an injury or life threatening illness. They stabilize a person, thats all the law requires. BUT, with the scumbag lawyers filing suit everytime a person was told they dont have a life threatening condition, the ER's got into the practice of just admitting everyone, stabilizing whatever condition they may have, and then having an unpaid bill.
Thats the problem the Republicans pointed to with illegal immigrants flooding the ER's with minor conditions because they knew it meant free healthcare. The GOP never had an answer for that problem- and Im not knocking them for that, because thats a very tough situation to find an answer for.
Forcing everyone to carry health insurance sucks. Its one of the worst possible solutions to the problem. But, all the other solutions have not worked. Eventually, we just have to do it, or, let the problem keep getting worse.