La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for February 03, 2010
Transcript:
Radio: There is nothing wrong with our American health care system. I recently had some chest pains. If this happens to you, simply leave your posh resort, hit a Hawaiian hospital and pay cash- or with your gold card- and you will be just fine. Person: Rush! Rush!! I'm having chest pains but I'm uninsured! Radio: This is radio, not a "walkie-talkie"!
Yukoneric almost 15 years ago
Rush is such a
3hourtour Premium Member almost 15 years ago
…I don’t see what all the fuss about health care is about,we all gotta go sometime…
lewisbower almost 15 years ago
People are living a lot longer. Does this cost? Duh
Plods with ...™ almost 15 years ago
If I had known I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.
NAH…. I’m going to be one ugly corpse
Dirty Dragon almost 15 years ago
From what I know of talk radio, it’s more likely Rush’s Cash-4-Gold card that paid off the bill for his excellent Socialist health care in Hawai’i.
Dapperdan61 Premium Member almost 15 years ago
Rush needs a surgeon generals warning advisory. Listening to his BS can be fatal to your health
Trebor39 almost 15 years ago
The answer to this is easy. Just stay healthy and live forever.
pschearer Premium Member almost 15 years ago
Here are just a few of the things wrong with the American healthcare system after over 50 years of government interference:
1) Almost all individual responsibility has been drained out of the system so now everyone expects someone else to pay for everything, and if they don’t, it’s considered a “crisis”.
2) Thanks to the entitlement attitude, almost all once-common medical charity has been eliminated.
3) As two doctors recently admitted to my face, of COURSE they have to over-test and over-treat out, of fear of lawsuits thanks to swarms of trial lawyers, thus of course increasing costs.
4) State and Federal requirements have metastasized medical record keeping, reporting, and billing into a hungry monster. Gone are the days when a doctor’s office was a doctor, a nurse, and sometimes a separate receptionist. Now they need a fully-staffed office just to shuffle the paperwork.
BTW, a great vote of confidence for the Canadian system: The Premier of Newfoundland is coming to the U.S. for his heart surgery.