Reply #39: Ahhh, Bouncy Ball, [View All]

[flamin lib]

We are on the same song sheet. Texas has become an endlessly Red state, not just from a political point of view but from a financial one as well. Red ink as far as the eye can see.

My next door neighbor is retired from the Texas health system. He said to me that poor people who don't have insurance were just too lazy to get a job. I looked him in the eye and said, "Gee, thanks for that insight. I'll be telling Melanie (my 22 year old daughter) about that. I can sometimes catch her between her daytime job at the restaurant and her evening bar-tending job. She'll be interested to know how lazy she is."

We are paying for universal health care now, just not getting it. The indigent go to the emergency room because that treatment is required by law. Instead of a $15 antibiotic shot we get $900 of emergency care. Texas hospitals write off as much as 40% of their charges. That's why those of us who can pay get charged $25 for an aspirin. What other business could sustain such write offs? From what other service would we tolerate such charges?