@Red cv,
FedUpAmerican;37201 wrote:You cited opinions not facts. Let's see you sources then we'll talk.
Folks like who? Are you presuming that you know ANYTHING about me???
You claim to be a "professional" in the healthcare industry. In what capacity?
Bedpan cleansing?
Facts:
-Number of uninsured Americans: 41,500,000 (Your fact)
-US Population: 302,878,403 (Census Bureau)
-41,500,000/302878,403 = 0.137 = approx 14% (mathematics fact)
-100% - 14% = 86% (mathematics fact)
So, I guess I was wrong. 86%, not 85% of the population has health care coverage.
-Fact: US law does not permit any hospital to turn away patients based on inability to pay. All must be treated. (Legal fact, posted on the wall of every Emergency Room and Obstetrical department in every hospital in the US.)
-Fact: The Medicare prescription drug benefit offers many different formulae and options from which a beneficiary must select one program. (Medicare website)
-Fact: Many seniors found the Medicare drug benefit "unduly complicated" and confusing. (Senior Journal)
-Fact: Initial cost estimates of the prescription drug plan were $534 billion over 10 years. Latest estimates show that the cost of this program over 10 years will actually be $1.2 trillion, more than twice the initial estimates (Washington Post)
So, as you see, my post was not based on opinion, but rather on well supported facts. Kinda hard to argue mathematics.
I particularly love your last stupidity. You really set yourself up for a fall here. No, my capacity is not in “bedpan cleansing.” (Pretty snotty, elitist attitude you have there, by the way. You have something against those who “lower” themselves to clean others when sick?) No, I am a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist. I have a Master’s Degree in Nurse Anesthesia, and I do surgical and obstetric anesthesia for a living.
And you? Host of a “popular radio show?” Got your own ham radio set, huh?