I had a patient today who was opposed to the Affordable Care Act.

[Aristus]

Not because he was a right-winger, but the opposite: he is an anarchist.

He's uninsured, and I mentioned the ACA because we will be helping our uninsured patients get registered for it starting the 1st of October.

He says he is opposed to a corporate take-over of medical care. (As if we weren't there already... )

I told him that, ideologically speaking, we were close to being on the same side of the political divide. But I also explained to him the advantages of the ACA, and that it would be a lot easier to treat his various conditions if he has insurance.

I never met someone opposed from the left, but I know they're out there...

[onehandle]

1. Just sounds like an immature, uninformed person.

I would guess they are under thirty.

They'll probably end up a libertarian.

Simpleton, incarnate.

[NYC_SKP]

2. I know a couple of people, generally very liberal, who use ERs and clinics....

...thinking that this way they're stiffing Big Medical, that somehow the system will absorb the costs, and that this is true communalism (hell, the rich people pick up the slack, right?).

Talk about uninformed.

They're ignorant.

[Aristus]

3. Do me a favor and don't show this thread to anyone in GD.

They'll come after me with pitchforks and torches.

Not because of anything I did or said, but just because torches and pitchforks are their default positions...