Comments on: Is universal health care worth the long waits? http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/is-universal-health-care-worth-long.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Nurse Khttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/is-universal-health-care-worth-long.html#comment-78418 Nurse K Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:23:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/is-universal-health-care-worth-the-long-waits.html#comment-78418 Our hospital alone gives out 15 million dollars of charity care per year to uninsured/underinsured patients.<br/><br/>No one is really just left to rot with serious illness, come on now. They either get official public assistance or non-official public assistance (because someone's paying for it when it's not you) with respect to free care at non-profit hospitals (which has to be done to maintain one's non-profit status as far as I'm aware). Our hospital alone gives out 15 million dollars of charity care per year to uninsured/underinsured patients.

No one is really just left to rot with serious illness, come on now. They either get official public assistance or non-official public assistance (because someone’s paying for it when it’s not you) with respect to free care at non-profit hospitals (which has to be done to maintain one’s non-profit status as far as I’m aware).

]]> By: Evanhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/is-universal-health-care-worth-long.html#comment-78391 Evan Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:05:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/is-universal-health-care-worth-the-long-waits.html#comment-78391 Is non-universal health care worth leaving 50 year-old men with unrepaired cleft palates because they can't afford the elective surgery? Is it worth bake-sales to care for the elective cancer care of children or young adults?<br/><br/>Americans without insurance don't just have long waits, they have permanent ones until they are near death. Is non-universal health care worth leaving 50 year-old men with unrepaired cleft palates because they can’t afford the elective surgery? Is it worth bake-sales to care for the elective cancer care of children or young adults?

Americans without insurance don’t just have long waits, they have permanent ones until they are near death.

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