FEDERAL LAW AND HEALTH CARE!

FEDERAL LAW AND HEALTH CARE! (Frazer Chronicles)

I know of several people who have in the past, or currently are relying on emergency room medical care much the same as folks with full medical coverage do with their regular care giver. I have wondered about this practice, if the expense was carried over to either the general public "taxpayers" or those medically covered patients.

The majority of the people that use emergency service care, who don't have enough medical insurance, or none at all come from 3 different areas of American society, low income, no income, or those people who either aren't interested in getting a job, or can't work for medical or mental reasons.

To not allow people access to medical treatment would be the worst kind of degradating activity by the medical care industry, political programs, or society attitude. Medical care in the United States is not, I repeat, not a constitutional right. Nowhere in the United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights, or any other governmental act, or law does it proclaim that "American citizens have the right to medical health care."

What the federal law does require is that hospitals must treat people whether they can pay or not. In today's United States of America, there is a growing practice of "insurance dropping," because the premiums are becoming so costly, people are unable to afford private insurance coverage. Their health issues are put off, "in many cases," until they are emergencies, and they then use emergency room medical care.

This practice causes several different issues that eventually increase the cost of health care, not only to the hospital, but to the insurance companies and the general public as well, unless you believe that hospitals are willing to just "eat" the lack of payment for a service.

Most hospitals today are in the business of making a bottom line profit, just like General Motors, or Wal Mart. Doctors drive BMW's, hospital administrators drive Cadillacs and new hospitals have an air of marble, brick and steel palaces.

So who pays for the free health care, we all do, through all sorts of programs, hidden as well as publicly declared charges written right into either your hospital billing, or your health insurance premium payment billing receipts. Nothing is free, "they don't pay for a freebie,"  we all pay!

However there is a "catch" in the free health care that people receive at an emergency room facility, and it can be dangerous as hell. Like the man said, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," emergency's are also under the interpretation of the emergency room personal.

A cut, a tooth ache, minor cuts, bruises, sprains, or dislocations all can be deemed as "non-emergency," and medical care can be refused. Other health issues can be lightly treated and turn into a fatal issue that a regular doctor's office visit would catch, and treat.

The most important medical treatment is preventative, and emergency rooms do not, nor are they required to give this type of health care. So in the long run, when people rely on "free" medical treatment, they usually get what they pay for. Hospitals in many cases do go the extra mile, after all, staff members are trained to give relief, or assistance, but done at the end of the line of health care, that is exactly where this type of patient is, "down at the end of medical treatment." 

Who suffers the most in this type of medical treatment, seniors and kids, usually when neither can afford to be treated with anything other then the best of care. One is nearing the end, the other, just beginning. Young, old and the "in-betweens" are stabilized, and if necessary, hospitalized and are not entitled to primary care. Neither are they entitled to preventive care, or follow-up care.

Any politician who says that poor people, indigent people, sick, injured, or just plain scammers are entitled to "extensive" free care because they can't afford it is not telling the true, either for a self serving reason, or they have their facts wrong, in many cases, dead wrong.

I firmly believe that every American deserves the right to  expect  medical care, whether extensive, or superficial. As long as the United States founds foreign countries medical care programs, "for free," we need to demand the same service.