Refusing Emergency Room Care Because You Can't Afford It
America is a nation with access to some of the best medical professionals, equipment and treatment in the world. It's also a nation where an increasing number of people are refusing to be treated because they can't afford it.
Increasing unemployment and health care cutbacks during the current recession mean more people are without medical insurance. As doctors and hospitals demand payment or proof of insurance, more people are going to emergency rooms for care. (An ER can't turn down a patient because of inability to pay).
How will this help the economy if more people aren't getting the medical care they need? More may be unable to work, support themselves and their families, and disease may become more rampant. And more workers may die.
See an article about the problem at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30628634
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Comments
Let the sick people die and decrease the surplus population.
Posted by: Ebenezer Scrooge | May 12, 2009 12:02 PM
Everyone should get medical care. It's just not right that they don't.
Posted by: Susie Q | May 14, 2009 07:40 AM
It's just not right. America is so rich yet so many are so poor. And health care is so expensive not even the middle class can afford it. In Moore's Sicko people who helped with 911 could get medical care in Cuba they couldn't in America. Cuba is Communist and America is Capitalist. Something to think about.
Posted by: TawTew the Naturally Perfumed | May 17, 2009 03:34 AM
So you want to be Communist? People in Cuba are poor. The government has all the money. In America, any one can be rich. If you're poor, that's your own choice. Nobody makes you poor in America.
Posted by: Texas Ron | May 18, 2009 06:33 AM
Jesus of Nazareth healed the sick, even when they were poor. We are supposed to follow Jesus example.
Posted by: Christian Andy | May 19, 2009 02:48 AM
Texas Ron how can everybody be rich? Can we all be millionaires? And if we were would it mean anything?
Posted by: Mad Greg | May 19, 2009 11:55 AM
I agree with Suzie Q. Everybody should get health care. Why should our medical care be worse than Cuba?
Posted by: Vernon Avaritt III | May 20, 2009 09:28 AM
"There will be poor always, pathetically struggling. Look at the good things you've got."
Jesus Christ
Posted by: Who's Your Daddy? | May 20, 2009 03:53 PM
The problem with hospitals is they have too many sick people. The problem with emergency rooms is they have too many sick people. The problem with government is they have too many sick people.
Posted by: Rev. Bootie | May 21, 2009 05:35 AM
Say, if we let all the poor people die, then everybody would be rich, right?
Some of you must have holes in your brains.
And Who's Your Daddy, Jesus did say that. That's from Jesus Christ Superstar.
Posted by: Arnold Schwartz | May 21, 2009 05:47 PM
Sick.
Posted by: Hannah | May 27, 2009 05:02 PM
I've got a job, a wife, three kids and no medical insurance. There's times it's do we eat or buy medicine? Doctors won't treat you without paying up front, and emergency rooms are very expensive. So I can go to Cuba which is poor and get medical care for my family I can't get in America without paying an arm and a leg? I've always been a strong Capitalist, work hard, that. But maybe Communism isn't so bad.
Posted by: Ray Aimes | May 30, 2009 06:58 PM
You should add the bill by Sen. Kennedy. He wants to get health care for everybody, part of Pres. Obama's plan.
Posted by: Big Hat Gerard | June 12, 2009 05:59 AM
Fix it! Pass Health Care Reform, America!
Posted by: Joshua Adams | December 4, 2009 03:29 AM
Now that's the health care bill passed things can get much better.
Posted by: David James Almost | March 27, 2010 04:06 PM
we need socialist health care like sweden!
Posted by: Jump Higher | July 20, 2010 09:49 AM