Re: David Cross on Health Care

On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Mike Findlay wrote:
> If you show up at the ER you will get treated for life threatening 
> conditions, (if not most others).  I understand that some don't want to 
> do that becasue they are terrified of the bills they will get or worry 
> about having to go bankrupt and I can honestly sympathize, if not 
> empathize, to a certain extent, (I had a gall bladder attack that I 
> suppose could have been life threatening if my gall bladder had ruptured 
> or become infected that I refused to let my wife take me to hospital for 
> because of that exact thing.  The pain was so bad that I was wishing for 
> death), but that is a choice the is made.

Now, see, like I've said before, I am profoundly glad that I *don't* have 
to make those kinds of choices.  When I had my kidney-stone attack in 
August, I didn't think twice about going to the hospital two blocks down 
the road, and I didn't have to see, much less pay, a single bill 
afterwards.  (Why, I didn't even have to pay for parking -- I just walked 
there!)  And I've taken advantage of the emergency section at that 
hospital on at least two other occasions -- again, without even seeing, 
much less paying, any bills.  Oh, and the urologist I've seen a few times 
since the kidney-stone attack hasn't billed me personally, nor have I had 
to pay for the ultrasound and X-rays that I had in connection with that 
situation.  I think it is a Good Thing that these services are available, 
and I would support measures to make them available in your country 
(provided that your country didn't go to the extreme that my own country 
has gone, in making privately-funded healthcare all but impossible).

But I wouldn't *dare* say that anyone who failed to believe in taxpayer 
funded services of this sort was somehow failing Jesus.

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