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.

**the question is who pays more in the long run, you in your taxes, or me in my
premiums, that allow me the same freedom of care.

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