As self-righteous a post as you'll see on CB

[JohnnyLingo]

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[MikeWaters]

Originally Posted by JohnnyLingo

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it must kill you to not be able to respond. but I wouldn't have seen your response anyway. because I had you ignored.

do you want me to post your response anyway? "Don't you love it when liberals tell you how to spend your money?"

[BYU71]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

it must kill you to not be able to respond. but I wouldn't have seen your response anyway. because I had you ignored.

do you want me to post your response anyway? "Don't you love it when liberals tell you how to spend your money?"

I can't respond over there either Mike.

My response would have been "Mike, some of your posts bring me to tears."

[MikeWaters]

how does it work in SLC? If you are 40 years old and work at McDonalds and have come down with gallstones that are symptomatic, what can you do?

In Dallas, you would enroll in the indigent health district program, you would get an appointment to see a surgeon, and you would have your gallbladder removed. At minimal cost.

Does the same sort of thing exist in SLC?

[Jeff Lebowski]

Good heavens, the new colors over there are awful.

[Mormon Red Death]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

how does it work in SLC? If you are 40 years old and work at McDonalds and have come down with gallstones that are symptomatic, what can you do?

In Dallas, you would enroll in the indigent health district program, you would get an appointment to see a surgeon, and you would have your gallbladder removed. At minimal cost.

Does the same sort of thing exist in SLC?

if you are working at mcdonald's then you probably qualify for medicaid... you would get an appointment to see a surgeon, and you would have your gallbladder removed. at no to cost to you

[Archaea]

Socialized medicine would not be a great improvement for the very poor, and anything by Michael Moore is likely to be laced with prevarications or overstatements.

Socialized medicine is likely to be a great improvement for the working and not-so-poor.

Indigent care exists in all fifty states, and if you are very poor, you qualify. If you don't meet the statutory definition of "indigent", you don't qualify and often are SOL in terms of making payment though you will often receive care.

EMTALA form great lawsuits for health care lawyers, and I am involved in a couple right now. If a patient is dumped, I'm more than happy to get the hospital nailed, but then again, it is a free market economy that came up with EMTALA, not a country sporting open socialized medicine.

[SteelBlue]

I work at a non-profit in CA. The way it works here is that patients are treated regardless of ability to pay. While they are here, representatives of a company we've hired come into their rooms and help them register for medi-cal (California's medicaid) and when they are accepted (usually a month or so down the road) we get paid. We pay that company 10% of our reimbursement for each patient that they get registered.

[Mormon Red Death]

Originally Posted by SteelBlue

I work at a non-profit in CA. The way it works here is that patients are treated regardless of ability to pay. While they are here, representatives of a company we've hired come into their rooms and help them register for medi-cal (California's medicaid) and when they are accepted (usually a month or so down the road) we get paid. We pay that company 10% of our reimbursement for each patient that they get registered.

plus... if you don't meet medicaid standards and are still unable to pay they will either give you a discount or outright charity care

[MikeWaters]

Here is what it says in Texas:

Needy families may receive a monthly cash grant through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. Grants are available for single- and two-parent families, and are based on need. Families who receive TANF may also receive food stamps and Medicaid.

Medicaid is available to families who receive TANF benefits as well as

* low-income children under age 19,
* pregnant women,
* youths aging out of foster care,
* families that leave TANF for work or whose time limits have expired, and
* families that have high medical bills they can't pay.

I fail to see how this applies to the 25 year old guy working at McDonalds. Looks like he is SOL.