Comments on: Boston Hospital Looking At Major Losses and Layoffs Because Of Government Run Healthcare http://rightvoices.com/2008/03/17/boston-hospital-looking-at-major-losses-and-layoffs-because-of-government-run-healthcare/ in all matter of opinion, our adversaries are insane. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:20:40 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: FrmrArtyOffcr http://rightvoices.com/2008/03/17/boston-hospital-looking-at-major-losses-and-layoffs-because-of-government-run-healthcare/comment-page-1/#comment-712119 FrmrArtyOffcr Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:37:20 +0000 http://rightvoices.com/2008/03/17/boston-hospital-looking-at-major-losses-and-layoffs-because-of-government-run-healthcare/#comment-712119 Hospitals closing because of non paying patients is nothing new to the Southwest. An editorial/article in the Arizona Republic today was lamenting the fact that a local hospital spent over $450,000 treating an illegal alien injured in a motorcycle accident and then (What is this world coming to?) had ICE deport her without using up a few hundred thousand more for rehabilitation. Yes it's infortunate that a 22 yr old is confined to a wheel chair for the rest of her life, but why is it the responsibility of the hospital or US Taxpayer to provide her with free rehabilitation when she was violating the law by being in this country to begin with. How many poor children could've received a rubella vaccine for that $450,000+? How many mammograms could that have funded? As long as people think that they can get healthcare for "FREE" instead of realizing that their friends, relatives and neighbors are paying for it, this kind of abuse will continue. I had a senior citizen complain to me today about losing 6 doctors to other cities over the last few years. She wondered why all of them were leaving an area that caters to the wealthy senior citizen, so I told her. I informed her about Medicare's recent 10% reduction in payments to doctors and the additional 30% decreases that are planned over the next few years. Hearing how the doctors were being squeezed out of business by Medicare, she disgustedly responded "and we keep electing these guys.." Hospitals closing because of non paying patients is nothing new to the Southwest. An editorial/article in the Arizona Republic today was lamenting the fact that a local hospital spent over $450,000 treating an illegal alien injured in a motorcycle accident and then (What is this world coming to?) had ICE deport her without using up a few hundred thousand more for rehabilitation. Yes it’s infortunate that a 22 yr old is confined to a wheel chair for the rest of her life, but why is it the responsibility of the hospital or US Taxpayer to provide her with free rehabilitation when she was violating the law by being in this country to begin with. How many poor children could’ve received a rubella vaccine for that $450,000+? How many mammograms could that have funded?

As long as people think that they can get healthcare for “FREE” instead of realizing that their friends, relatives and neighbors are paying for it, this kind of abuse will continue. I had a senior citizen complain to me today about losing 6 doctors to other cities over the last few years. She wondered why all of them were leaving an area that caters to the wealthy senior citizen, so I told her. I informed her about Medicare’s recent 10% reduction in payments to doctors and the additional 30% decreases that are planned over the next few years. Hearing how the doctors were being squeezed out of business by Medicare, she disgustedly responded “and we keep electing these guys..”

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