The above responses to the anon post of 11:41 AM are really pathetic. “Oh knock it off” “Keep up the whining anonymous coward. Your bleeting will rapidly turn to dismay when the Dems take over and socialize the whole corrupt lot.” You actually might get sheeple to listen to you if any of your comments were based on reality and facts, not the meandering blabberings of an uninformed lunatic. As far as other points of view on allopathic medicine, this is a free country and you’re allowed your POV, but at least ground your perceptions in reality (ie the facts), not some psychotic fantasy.

Thy speaketh of the present in the future tense.

Thy teat that beareth the milk of human kindness doth runneth dry as thy fountain of wisdom; Thy ostia anuca doth runneth flush with the excrement that overfloweth from thy cranial abyss.

You think the democrats are going to make us “give it away for free”? If the democrats win, we’ll order even more tests, cause they suck at the Teat of the ATLA. The entire system will be bankrupted, as we order whole body MRI’s for every patient that walks through the door with a hangnail, to protect us from the Democrat-reinforced sodomites.

Once again, your psycopathic hatred of healthcare providers comes across in its usual ignorant fashion. The statement you so fondly quoted applies to the most hated health insurance company on the planet, not physicians. But your blind hatred of all things medical won’t allow you to see that. If you were a physician who lost money on every transaction, you yourself might sing a different tune.

Sounds about right… In describing the current crop of healthcare of providers.

The government mandates that ERs treat all, regardless of ability to pay or citizenship status, and yet does not fully fund that mandate. Either let ERs turn away chronic non-payers or let the government pick up the tab for their bills.

It IS in the public interest to have functional, effective emergency departments open and available for all.

(a) non-excludable, such as national defense, and

(b) non-rival, such as a large park or movie theater

“Health care” — whether a doctor, an ER, a flu shot or a tongue depressor — is, with hardly any exceptions, neither non-excludable nor non-rival and is therefore NOT a public good, any more than food, clothing or housing are “public goods.”

People who blather that “health care is a public good” are really saying that they want other people to pay for their health care. Which might be a legitimate public policy goal (I think not), but it has no basis whatsoever in the economics of public goods.