Who Will Pay?

Who Will Pay?

In Potterville, hundreds go to the emergency room for their medical care. Many leave, because the waits are usually measured in hours; or sometimes days. People die waiting in emergency rooms all the time!

One of our Potterville hospitals is for profit, the other is a Mercy-West non-profit.

If you want an experiment in seeing poverty, spend some time in Potterville's emergency rooms. Watch the little children, coughing, crying, scared as they wait with drug addicts and alcoholics to see the doctor. It is not a pretty sight. But that is the plight of the uninsured in America, and a majority of the uninsured are children. Children cry in emergency rooms because they are scared.

There is a lot to be scared of in an emergency room!

At the for profit hospital, an aggressive campaign has been waged to get all emergency room "business". Huh?

Why; you are probably asking. Why would the for profit hospital be trying to get emergency room business when it is made up of uninsured who can't pay?

This is why...

If the Affordable Care Act is voided, or crippled, the uninsured in the United States again will have no recourse; there will be no forcing or assisting people to have insurance.

In fact, that is true today, since the "mandate" will not go into effect until 2014. The Court is preemtively reviewing the law; which is unprecedented by the way.

Preemptive Judicial Review...google it...you won't find it!

And, the underemployed are already losing their insurance. Employers right now are cutting benefits at every turn; it is the first thing to go in hard times. Find me an employee, other than C.E.O.s, who have seen their medical benefits go up...go ahead...find me one who has seen more medical benefits rather than less...

There are NONE!

Basically, we will be back to square one. And, since it took 70 years of argument to get the Affordable Care Act, which is a compromise and a conservative based idea, (after all Romney did it in Massachusetts) we will not see any reform soon.

The Insurance Lobby will have won!

Fine, I suppose, if you are a social darwinist. Fine, if you can sit in those emergency rooms and listen to frightened children cry. Fine, if you like paying 50% of your salary for medical insurance!

Without the leverage of being "forced" to pay a fee for Health Care, what will happen is the uninsured will grow and grow and grow. A huge underclass has already evolved, with the emergency room the only resource for medical care.

Right now over 50 million have no health insurance. In Potterville I would bet almost 50% do not have any coverage. The recession/depression is adding millions to the national total.

The 50 million will become 75 million or higher.

That is why the for profit hospital is encouraging emergency room use. There will be even more customers if the act is voided, or even partially voided. Every one of those people must be served, no matter what, and somebody has to pay.

But who will pay the bill? Who will pay for all those uninsured?

Medicare will! And all my con friends, who are rooting for the Court to overcome "Obamacare" will see their Medicare gutted, costs increase, and their retirements ruined.

Who will pay? WE WILL!!!!