Death Panel! Illegal Aliens not covered!
By ParaTed2k
@ParaTed2k (22940)
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
September 15, 2009 4:39pm CST
Ok, I know that there aren't any plans to create "death panels" as part of a government run medical coverage plan.
But you can't have a government run system without charging government officials with deciding what will be covered and what won't. Nobody is even trying to claim that it would cover everyone for everything in every situation.
So, a group of people making decisions about a topic is a "panel", right? If that panel decides what medical situations are eligible for coverage, they are also deciding what medical situations won't be covered... right?
Buzzwords aside, those are the facts behind the whole "death panel" thing.
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Now for Illegal aliens and Obama's statement that they won't be covered by any federal funding.
Let's look at that in reality.
Will medical facilities be allowed to require proof of legal residence? If they are, will they be allowed to refuse treatment to anyone who doesn't?
Or will medical facilities that accept federal funds be required to treat all patients regardless of ability to pay?
If you say that Obama is telling the truth, then you are either saying that illegal aliens will be denied even emergency care... that medical facilities will be forced to treat illegal aliens at their own expense... Or that illegal aliens will be required to purchase private insurance in order to be treated.
1 response
@spalladino (17891)
• United States
15 Sep 09
This is just a guess but I would imagine that all medical facilities would require that you show them your insurance card...just as they do now. I doubt that federally funded, public hospitals will be allowed to turn illegals away from the ER so those hospitals will continue to eat the loss...as they do now.
@spalladino (17891)
• United States
16 Sep 09
It costs the rest of us money with increased rates. This is why everything is so expensive when you go to the hospital. Of course, if the federal government is going to reimburse hospitals for the fees that aren't paid, and you've seen that in writing somewhere, I'd be happy to admit that my opinion is wrong...but I don't believe that's the case.
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
16 Sep 09
Sooner: Under Obamacare, the rates will be set by the government. Facilities won't be able to raise them to compensate. They will have to absorb the costs... until they can't anymore, and shut down.
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
16 Sep 09
Fewer facilities means longer waiting lists, and eventually either government takeover of all facilities, rationing or a combination.
