Originally Posted by Vero99

Well. If you have any experiences with hospitals, they routinely admit people who have minor injuries in order for them to get the "bed costs". It's capitalism. If you're injured, most people consider it serious. One of the worst problems that we do have in our current system is the amount of people who abuse the system. I don't see where socializing it would help at all. What we need to do is put restrictions on what these companies (better yet..extortionists) are doing.

Yes, I realize that doctors are overpaid. Yes, I realize that if just one child is saved, then maybe that atrocious number we pay out to that certain % on Medicaid that completely waste everyone's resources and time is worth it.

Until we actually put restrictions on pharmaceutical companies, and hospitals, it will keep getting worse and worse. They know your kid/spouse/loved one/yourself is going to die/stay stick, so they proceed to fuck you in the ass unmercifully.

Malpractice (against Doctors) is the biggest load of crap. Wow, you send my child home to die. At most (at least in MO, MS firsthand) you will only get 250k to 500k. That's how much a life is worth. You defend that. Defend it. Your baby is sent home with a staph infection that kills the growth plate in her leg just because the hospital didn't feel like treating it and now one leg is considerably shorter than the other. Defend your child only getting 250k and dealing with that the rest of their life.

On this issue, Democrats, Republicans..it's all the same. Money is power. It will never change.