Yeah, it's true I was dying from food poisoning
after three days not drinking and throwing up and I went to Charity Hospital and
they hooked me up. They rocked. Gotta thank them. 60 bucks maybe.
- Original Message -
From:
shempmcgurk
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 12:23
PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ignoring
suffering of everyone who isn't Terri Schiavo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
ranigdv [EMAIL PROTECTED]...
wrote:[snip] And while President Bush and Congress rushed
to intervene in the Schiavo case, saying they were acting to preserve
life, they were in no hurry to discuss their proposed cuts to
Medicaid, which helps the poor. And they avoided talking about the
tens of millions of Americans with no health insurance and how many
of them will die for lack of it.[snip]If you're going
to talk about health insurance, Medicaid, the poor and "dying for lack of
(health insurance)", please get your facts straight.The United
States federal government spent about $188 billion on the Medicaid program
last year. Because it is a dollar-for-dollar state-federal matching
program that means that an additional $188 billion was spent on Medicaid
by the states...for a total of over $375 billion spent on Medicaid, a
program whose sole purpose is to pay the health care costs of those who
can't afford it.My friend, that's about ONE THIRD OF A TRILLION
DOLLARS spent via American taxpayers to pay for health care for those who
either can't afford it or don't have health insurance (or didn't qualify)
and had to spend down their assets in order to pay for health
costs.And that's JUST Medicaid...MediCARE (a totally different federal
program) spends hundreds of billions of dollars a year to pay for the
health care of senior citizens.If anyone is "dying", as you claim,
in the U.S. health care system it is NOT for lack of socialized medicine
or for lack of throwing taxpayers money at the problem...or because we are
an uncaring "capitalistic" society who are behind the oh-so-superior
Europeans and Canadians who, of course, are so much more evolved than
us because they have universal health care programs. If people
are "dying" it's for other reasons (i.e. malpractise, malnutrition,
etc.)Just to give you a perspective on the over $375 billion spent
just by Medicaid to pay for the health care of the poor in the U.S.: the
ENTIRE Canadian federal budget is about $200 billion in CANADIAN
dollars (about $160 billion in U.S. dollars).It may not be perfect
but no one is "dying" in the U.S. health care system because of cold,
cruel capitalists who turn away suffering people from hospital emergency
rooms because they don't have private health insurance (which, by the way,
is illegal to do -- hospitals, by law, MUST treat anyone that comes
through their doors...which, by the way, is yet ANOTHER example of
socialized medicine in the U.S.).Both I and my 1040 Form federal
income tax form (from which I pay a whole lot of taxes towards the above
mentioned programs) take exception to what you
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