primitives discuss emergency rooms

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=222x63532

Oh my.

YewNork (149 posts)      Fri Jun-26-09 12:49 PM
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Emergency Rooms are the new walk-in clinics

According to the American College of Emergency Physicians, in a survey in January of more than 1,700 emergency doctors, 66 percent said they'd seen an increase in the number of patients in their emergency rooms over the preceding six months.

Most of the physicians -- 83 percent -- reported seeing patients who'd lost their jobs and health insurance and delayed medical care.

Skittles  (1000+ posts)      Fri Jun-26-09 12:50 PM
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1. not so new

poor folk have been doing it a long, long time

Poor folk.....and primitives.  There's a difference.

sandnsea  (1000+ posts)      Fri Jun-26-09 12:59 PM
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4. It's only "new" when the upper income have to do it.

I will never forget when Richard Pryor said that when a social ill happens in a black community it's a crime spree, when it happens in a white community it's an epidemic.

Always thought that was true, but the way everybody is suddenly looking so differently at everything from credit cards to student loans to collection agencies, has been a real eye-opener. This is stuff that people have been complainig about since the 80s. Do you think they might realize poor people don't have access to the courts some day too??

inthebrain (1000+ posts)        Fri Jun-26-09 12:51 PM
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2. New?

Where have you been?

It's been that way for the last 20-30 years.

glowing  (1000+ posts)        Fri Jun-26-09 12:54 PM
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3. This is why the 47 million without healthcare number is a lie.

With 6 million people unemployed, and businesses having to cut anything just to stay open, more and more people have less access to medical insurance. The number one reason the ins. co's want a mandatory ins. clause is because they are dying. They will die out on their own because the costs are too high in a depression. AND when people forgo medical attention and wait until the last minute, the costs for care normally increase greatly for the treatment procedure.

DJ13 (1000+ posts)      Fri Jun-26-09 01:01 PM
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5. Besides no insurance, part of the reason the poor use ER's is 

....because clinics tend to see people by appointments instead of real walk in service.

I almost had to take my wife to the ER when she was suffering diabetic symptoms until I could convince the local clinic how serious her condition was, then they took her within an hour.

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[MrsSmith]

With 6 million people unemployed, and businesses having to cut anything just to stay open, more and more people have less access to medical insurance. The number one reason the ins. co's want a mandatory ins. clause is because they are dying. They will die out on their own because the costs are too high in a depression.

Wow, and here I could have sworn that the subject was the USE of Emergency Rooms for medical care...meaning they don't die.    

[Vagabond]

The DUmmie is actually right about something.  47 million uninsured is a lie.  If you have a change of employers, and you lack insurance coverage for any period of time, even one minute at midnight then you are counted as not having insurance for the entire year.

[The Village Idiot]

Wow, and here I could have sworn that the subject was the USE of Emergency Rooms for medical care...meaning they don't die.    

He meant the Insurance Companies are dying

[AllosaursRus]

Damn! I'm truly getting sick of this whoa is me attitude, even from the DUmp REtards! For cryin' out loud, when are these asshats gonna get a clue????????

[AllosaursRus]

The DUmmie is actually right about something.  47 million uninsured is a lie.  If you have a change of employers, and you lack insurance coverage for any period of time, even one minute at midnight then you are counted as not having insurance for the entire year.

The 47 mil even counts the 18 thru 30 year olds that don't want or need insurance.

Hell when I was that age, I was indistructable!

[The Village Idiot]

The 47 mil even counts the 18 thru 30 year olds that don't want or need insurance.

Hell when I was that age, I was indistructable!

and this is a pro-NHS propaganda pic