"FRIDAY, July 31 (HealthDay News) -- An estimated 50 million, or 42 percent, of the 120 million visits made in 2006 to U.S. hospital emergency departments were billed to the Medicaid and Medicare programs, according to a U.S. government report released Thursday.
Uninsured patients accounted for nearly 18 percent of emergency department visits nationally, 34 percent were billed to private insurance, and 6 percent were billed to worker's compensation, military health plan administrator Tricare, and other payers, according to the latest News and Numbers from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality."
ER Visits Mostly by Medicare, Medicaid Recipients
I don't care what they say.
You want to make a good point about why you support/oppose legislation, use facts.
I'm quite tired of the 40% support, 30% oppose and 30% want an enema.
It's tired, old and doesn't do anything to help people make good choices.
Most visits are medicare. So? More old people have actual emergencies. That's understandable. Uninsured accounted for 18%. Almost 1 in 5. You don't see the problem with that? Or the costs involved?
Actually, it's about 73% who oppose it. It's always been only a small minority who want it. Those who think it's "free"! :roll: It's going to cost us all dearly. Nobody can afford this.cnn poll today
59% oppose the pig
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/03/22/rel5a.pdf
own it, dems
don't blame reds
she's all yours
congrats!
You are just plain wrong. In big city hospitals the ERs are flooded with people that do not have insurance. And preventative medicine is overwhelmingly cheaper at every level. You might want to do your homework instead of copying off your neighbors paper.
HOW COULD TED KENNEDY HAVE BEEN SO STUPID AS NOT TO ABLE TO FIND, IN ALL THOSE YEARS OF SEARCHING, THE SERENDIPITOUS HALF TRIL PRESIDENT PIEFACE FOUND UNDER THE LINCOLN BED ONE MORNING (july 22) LAST SUMMER?
LOL!
The American people got ignored. Where was the transparency Obama promised? What about bipartisanship? The only thing bipartisan was the opposition to this bill. Seriously, America needs to wake up in November, many people were smacked in the face by their congressman, myself included. My district is more conservative, but we have a retiring Democrat congressman. He voted for this legislation because he had nothing to lose (he is retiring and not running again). Most of us here in Nashville didn't want this, but our congressman voted long with his party and not along with his constituents. Congress needs to be reminded that they serve US! We vote them into power, they are supposed to represent us, not cave into thug politics or outright ignore those who gave them that power. Congress needs reform more than healthcare.
keep reading
people's choices determine who controls the houses, silly
You left your cap lock on again.
Ignored? Actually they listened to the years of people complaining about our healthcare system.
So how does that solve the problem of convincing people that this is a good/bad idea?
It doesn't and is just a trite appeal to the majority.
The ERs are flooded with people who are on Medicaid/Medicare. I used to work in Emergency Medicine, the people we were forced to pick up in an ambulance for NON emergency reasons, were always on Medicaid or Medicare.
you don't convince em, they already made up their minds
you listen to em, you show em respect
unless you know better something they don't
LOL!
do you hear yourself?
No they didn't. All the polls suggest that Americans did not want this type of reform. People want reform, but not this. How can you say that they were listening to Americans.
"This type of argument is known by several names,[1] including appeal to the masses, appeal to belief, appeal to the majority, appeal to the people, argument by consensus, authority of the many, and bandwagon fallacy"
"It is logically fallacious because the mere fact that a belief is widely-held is not necessarily a guarantee that the belief is correct; if the belief of any individual can be wrong, then the belief held by multiple persons can also be wrong."
Argumentum ad populum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
good
but i'm not saying they're right
not here
elsewhere i'll tell you how and why they're right
HERE, i'm telling you they are gonna KICK THE ASSES of this imperious party in power
Do you even know what the reform is? Or are you just repeating spin?
Much of the bill is wanted by most people. A few other things like taxes for people making over 250K gives republicans a coniption fit.
Most people opposed to the bill don't even know what it is.
why couldn't kennedy FIND IT?
answer---because it's not REAL
and you KNOW it!
now, you're starting to UNDERSTAND the meaning of those polls
mom GETS IT, she aint DUMB
tsk tsk...
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