Friday, June 04, 2004

But...but...it's FREEEE!

Reasons #821 and #822 why the leftist wacko wing of the Democrat Party has no idea what it's talking about.

Read this story about a woman who was forced to call 911 on her cell phone from the emergency room of one hospital to get an ambulance to take her to another hospital.
Howard, 39, says she was forced to wait an hour in the ER on April 27 before nurses told her the wait would be even longer. She called 911 and was taken by ambulance to Quincy Medical Center where she was admitted and released two days later.
Then read this article on the average waiting periods for medical treatment in American hospitals.
The Texas-based consulting firm Merritt, Hawkins & Associates surveyed 1,062 physician specialists’ offices in 15 major cities and found Boston patients wait longest for appointments. The study, released this week, found that new patients in Boston wait an average 37 days to see a cardiologist, 45 days to see an obstetrician-gynecologist, and 50 days to see a dermatologist — the longest waits of the 15 cities.
Now can someone please explain to me how this would be improved by adopting the Euro-utopian socialized health care system, providing unlimited free health care for everyone at the taxpayers' expense, opening the sluicegates for every free-loading, hypochondriac in the country world to invade emergency rooms across America.

What we would need is an "express lane" emergency room system. Those people who are actually contributing to society and are providing for their own health care get their own ER, and those who make their living leeching of the rest of us, seeking "emergency" care courtesy of Uncle Sam for their stubbed toes can take a number and reap the "benefits" of their socialist government bureaucracy.

Likewise, for those who complain that singling out young Arab males for extra security screening in airports amounts to EVIL racial profiling, we can create a special "No Security Screening Allowed" Airline, just for them. See how many tickets they sell (not my original idea, and I would credit the original source for this, but I read it a while ago and don't remember who came up with it).