Healthcare and Ability to Pay

[resister]

$#@!ing hospitals will let you die if your insurance sucks, thanks Obama.

[jimmyz]

Is it odd to think that people should pay for the level of care they want? If you want to arrive at the hospital and have paid your healthcare tax then fine. If you want to arrive and and ask for the extra care servive you have paid for then great. Pay for the level you wish to pay for.

[jimmyz]

$#@!ing hospitals will let you die if your insurance sucks, thanks Obama.

I went that with Dad. They decided he wasn't worth the costs of IVs and everything else. He, we had the best healthcare money could provide. Some ghoull of a $#@!ing Indian continent administrator came out to give us the fatal speech. I will stop now as I might ban myself going further.

[Hal Jordan]

$#@!ing hospitals will let you die if your insurance sucks, thanks Obama.

That has not been my experience. 3 weeks out of the past 3 months in the hospital, and the care has been great. They even connected me with a charity for regular medical care.

[Hal Jordan]

Hospitals make more than enough to absorb the cost in emergency situations. With or without Obamacare, they overcharge enough (and the government pays them more than other facilities) that those who can't pay can still easily be taken care of. More money for better accommodations is fine. I would leave cable for all in hospitals, since the cost difference is negligible, however, more money giving more channels would be reasonable.

[Hal Jordan]

That has not been my experience. 3 weeks out of the past 3 months in the hospital, and the care has been great. They even connected me with a charity for regular medical care.

Of course, part of that may have been because the nurses liked me and I tried to make things easier on me. I even had one visit me multiple times when she was working a different area.

[Cletus]

From a moral perspective, no. Simply stated, if two people have the identical ailment and the one who can pay will live and the one who cannot will die, then by definition the lives of people with money are more valuable.

That doesn't even make sense.

[Cthulhu]

(From an idea formed by a post by @Dr. Who)


Should health care be tied to ability to pay?

For a hang nail? Yes.

For a broken femur? No.

Everything in between? Salt morally to taste.

Sent from my evil cell phone.

[Hal Jordan]

That doesn't even make sense.

It makes sense, but saving lives is more under the purview of hospitals, who can afford the burden.

[Cletus]

It makes sense, but saving lives is more under the purview of hospitals, who can afford the burden.

The statement itself makes no sense.