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The Right’s Big Lie of Emergency Care (Video)

Sep 13th, 2011
by Tom.
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Re: GOP Tea Party Debate: Audience Cheers, Says Society Should Let Uninsured Patient Die 

A bit of a startling moment happened near the end of Monday night’s CNN debate when a hypothetical question was posed to Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas).

“What do you tell a guy who is sick, goes into a coma and doesn’t have health insurance? Who pays for his coverage? Are you saying society should just let him die?” Wolf Blitzer asked.

“Yeah!” several members of the crowd yelled out.

Paul interjected to offer an explanation for how this was, more-or-less, the root choice of a free society. He added that communities and non-government institutions can fill the void that the public sector is currently playing.

“We never turned anybody away from the hospital,” he said of his volunteer work for churches and his career as a doctor. “We have given up on this whole concept that we might take care of ourselves, assume responsibility for ourselves … that’s the reason the cost is so high.”

The answer may have struck a truly libertarian tone, but it was clearly overshadowed by the members of the crowd who enthusiastically cheered the prospect of letting a man die rather than picking up the tab for his coverage.


In accordance with the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) of 1986, hospitals cannot turn a person down for treatment if their injury or illness is determined to be an “emergency”, BUT, said hospital is not obligated to treat someone for free. Additionally, said hospital’s responsibility to the patient with an emergency medical condition only allows for the patient’s stability, not cure. There is no covered follow-up treatment.

If the emergency patient does not pay what is billed to him/her, then the hospital can either sue the patient or send the bill to a collection agency. I had an outstanding bill to a hospital totaling one dollar. I ignored the bill as insignificant. The hospital sent the bill to a collection agency and it then appeared on my credit report as a charge-off. Hospitals are legally mandated to provide treatment but at the same time they have a right to recover the costs from the patients.

The Republicans who want you to believe that all medical care is free and available and all you have to do is just run on down to the emergency room are purposely deceiving you by omission of all the facts. In other words they are lying to you.

 

OBTW, the audience members who cheered when Wolf Blitzer asked if the hypothetical person should be left to die are the same types of people who agreed that Hitler should just go ahead and dispose of all the European Jews.

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Paul says, "We Should Be Like 1900…1940, 1950, 1960"

Aug 28th, 2011
by Tom.
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Cogressman Ron Paul

Cogressman Ron Paul

re: Ron Paul Addresses Hurricane Irene, Says ‘There’s No Magic About’ FEMA (VIDEO) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/27/ron-paul-fema-video_n_939131.html:

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul told NBC News on Friday that “there’s no magic about” the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). He said that he doesn’t see the need for a federal response to Hurricane Irene as the powerful storm makes its way up the east cost.

“We should be like 1900, we should be like 1940, 1950, 1960,” said the Texas congressman in weighing in on the matter during a stop in New Hampshire. He regarded FEMA as a “great contribution to deficit financing.”

The Hill notes: A catastrophic storm hit Galveston in 1900, killing thousands.

“We should be coordinated, but coordinated voluntarily with the states,” Paul explained. “A state can decide. We don’t need somebody in Washington.”

The presidential contender explained that he lives on the Gulf Coast back in the Lone Star State. He said, “We deal with hurricanes all the time. Galveston is in my district.”

Click here for the latest updates on Hurricane Irene. Below, a clip of Paul’s remarks.

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Just to remind everyone, all those years he quoted would put us back before the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. When a politician wants to go back in time and says stuff like “a state can decide” my Jim Crow flag pops up. It seems to be a dog whistle that goes out to the rednecks telling them that “Hey, I’m on your side”. The “states rights” movement is kept alive by these bigots like Rand Paul. I think he would prefer us to be like 1860.

In regard to the context of his desire to go back to the time when it was every man for himself in a hurricane, he is more or less saying that all recovery efforts should be dropped in the laps of state and local budgets already in crisis.

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Biting The Hand That Feeds You

Mar 6th, 2011
by Tom.
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Re: Texas Nationalist group rallies for secession in Austin | Politics | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle, By SOMMER INGRAM, ASSOCIATED PRESS, March 6, 2011, 8:13AM

AUSTIN — The Texas Nationalist Movement marked Texas Independence Day with a rally on Saturday at the Capitol urging Texans to save the state by seceding from the United States.

A small but enthusiastic group of Texans gathered on the steps of the Capitol, as an assortment of massive Texas flags blew above them in the chilly afternoon breeze.

Outrage was spread evenly toward Democrats and Republicans as leaders of the movement expressed their disgust for the growing national debt and the federal government’s treatment of Texas.

“Texas can take better care of itself than Washington,” said Lauren Savage, vice president of the movement. “We are here to raise interest in the Legislature of the possibility of secession to cure the ills of America.”

Members are demanding that state lawmakers introduce a bill that would allow Texans to vote on whether to declare independence.

Fed up with federal mandates, the burden of unsustainable taxes and disregarded votes, members say secession has been a long time coming.

Ahem! Listen up you guys, you actually benefit from the federal government! You guys get more money from them than you pay! This is from The Statesman:

Federal money has consistently made up about a third of the state’s budget for the past decade. The only major deviation from that trend is this year, and it stems from the $12 billion injection of stimulus money.

In the current budget, the $66 billion in federal aid includes money to provide health care to very low-income Texans, offer additional education services for children with disabilities, feed poor children during the school day, and build and maintain highways.

Without that federal contribution, Texas would have to use state tax dollars to pay for those services or not provide them.

A third of the Texas budget comes from the federal government, a large part of it is to maintain roads and parks. Seceding will cut what meager budget you have now down to nothing. Do you like your local transit authority? Try living without that and other services the fed money provides.

BTW, states can’t pass laws that are contrary to federal law. It’s in the constitution. Look it up.

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