Yes obviously Sean But that is not what you wrote in your little fart
And so then you are claiming one out of every 9 people visits an emergency room 3 times a year Which suggests that lots of people are going to emergency rooms just because they can, and that what we should really be doing is no longer providing a free ambulance ride to anyone who calls for an ambulance every week to provide themselves with excitement I have elderly relatives who go to the doctor as often as possible just for fun, and medicare pays for it You are OBVIOUSLY too stupid to understand the first thing about medical economics,or economics in general Your delusion that you are better educated or informed than me is simply part of your general nature as a subhuman piece of shit On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:16 PM, VT Sean Lewis <[email protected]>wrote: > > No that would be VISITS to emergency rooms, not that 100 Million > people use the emergency room a year. > > Now I know why no one is responding, Fox News is not giving talking > points on the issue so you all don't know what to say or think. > > On Nov 10, 10:36 pm, Bruce Majors <[email protected]> wrote: > > poorwhore > > > > 100million people,1 outof 3 people, visit the emergency room a year? > > > > more proof that Obamanoids are monkeys not people > > > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 2:08 PM, VT Sean Lewis < > [email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > The Cost Of Insurance Reform VS No Reform > > > is $1 Trillion VS $1.5 Trillion. > > > > > Sean Lewis > > > November 10,2009 > > > > > I was curious what the actual numbers were, so I did a > > > Google search on the issues. > > > > > What was the average cost of an Emergency Room Visit? > > > Answer: $1,000 > > > > > How Many People used Emergency Rooms per year? > > > Answer 100,000,000,000 a year. > > > > > How Many People are uninsured? > > > On average %15. > > > > > This is just a quick thumbnail comparison, but it does give a > > > better idea of what the fuss is all about. > > > > > Each year, more than 100 million visits are made to emergency rooms > > > around the country. At an average cost of $1,000 a visit, the annual > > > price tag for ER care tops more than a billion dollars. And to make > > > matters worse, most of these visits aren't even real emergencies. > > > > >http://www.myoptumhealth.com/portal/Information/item/Avoiding+the+Hig. > .. > > > > > Analyzing data from the Community Tracking Study Household Surveys, > > > researchers found that uninsured individuals accounted for 15.5 > > > percent of emergency department visits in 1996-1997, but only 14.5 > > > percent of visits in 2003-2004. During the same period, the > > > proportion of visits by higher income people (equal to or greater than > > > 400 percent of the Federal Poverty Level) increased from 21.9 percent > > > to 29 percent. The proportion of visits by those whose usual source > > > of care was a physician’s office rose from 52.4 percent to 59 > > > percent. Overall emergency department visits rose from 90.3 million > > > in 1996 to 113.9 million in 2004, an increase of 26 percent. > > >http://www.acep.org/pressroom.aspx?id=37562 > > > > > Health care reform, if it passes, will cost about $1 trillion over the > > > next 10 years. Negotiators in the Senate and House are now saying > > > they've winnowed the cost down to "only" $900 billion or so. Where > > > will that money come from? Look in the mirror. > > > > >http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/10/business/moneywatch/main523. > .. > > > > > For those who do not understand what I just posted > > > > > Currently the uninsured who use emergency rooms for medical treatment > > > is about 15% of > > > all emergency room visits of about $150,000,000, 000 a year. > > > > > The cost of health insurance reform is about $100,000,000,000 a year. > > > > > So the savings to tax payers and Corporate America is about > > > $50,000,000,000 > > > a year, and this is calculating the average Emergency room visit costs > > > $1,000. > > > > > So the savings over 10 years for American taxpayers and Corporations > > > is > > > $500,000,000,000. > > > > > This does not include the lowering of premiums and the lowering of > > > medical costs > > > now that both hospitals and Insurance companies are no longer passing > > > on the costs of the uninsured to thier insured customers. > > > > > In addition morally we need to stop the preventable deaths of 18,000 > > > Americans > > > a year who do not have health insurance because they can't afford it > > > or because > > > they have an uninsured precondition. > > > > > My Sunday column looks at health care reform through the prism of > > > Nikki White, a young woman from Tennessee. She became too sick with > > > Lupus to work — and then lost her health insurance, and then died > > > because of lack of medical care. We may know intellectually that > > > 18,000 Americans die each year because they don’t have insurance, but > > > to confront one such person is still heartbreaking. And I just can’t > > > believe that we will let this opportunity for health reform slip > > > through our fingers, so that Americans like Nikki continue to die > > > needlessly every 30 minutes. > > > > http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/12/nikki-white-and-health-care/ > > > > > For me this is a no brainier do the Health Insurance reform, it IS > > > cost effective., > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. 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