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Don Klipstein

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On May 26, 7:16*pm, "Bob F" wrote:
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On May 26, 12:08 pm, harry wrote:
On May 26, 12:25 pm, "HeyBub" wrote:

harry wrote:

Second?

Thirds?

The same guy who stated that Cuba has better health care than the
USA.

Imagine that.

How do you know it's not true as your gov. won't let you go and see
for yourself? Cuban health care is free to everyone. Even you if
you could get there.
You are another of the brainwashed.

Free does not equal good.

Health care in Canada is free also, but we see a significant number
of Canadians in the U.S. for care.

For example, there are fewer than 200 MRI machines in the whole
country of Canada (and probably none in Cuba). We have more MRI
machines in my CITY than in the whole country of Canada.

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That;s another lie, often repeated. * Any indigent person in the USA
can walk in to an emergency room and the hospital must treat them.

But that treatment is only to get them out the door. It hardly matches the
medical care they need in the long term.

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ACtually, I haven't seen any such stories. And if even is it's true
and the patient is still ill, it's only another ambulance call to 911
and they are back at that hospital or another. I'm not saying that's
a good system or produces the best result.

Indigent uncovered heart patients don't get coronary bypass surgery and
few if any get "cath lab" treatment. They get to call 911 and enjoy
ambulance rides and "stabilizing treatment" after above-average
waiting-room waits until they fail to survive a subsequent heart attack.

Indigent uncovered cancer patients are only required to be "stabilized".

An indigent patient with a bullet in the brain is only required by the
hospital to be "stabilized" if alive-that-far.

What about an indigent without medical coverage other than $5,000
1st-party medical of car insurance gets into a bad car crash? Especially
if by that driver's error, or gets crashed by an uninsured (illegal) or
"under-insured" driver? (People have to pay for specific-amount-of-coverage
for crashes by uninsured/underinsured drivers, and it appears to me that
PA's minimum-required-coverage for liability has at most fair chance to
pay all the bills incurred by someone being hospitalized for a week,
especially after totalling even an average car that has 75,000 miles on
its odometer.)

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- Don Klipstein )