Health Care – Just Go To An Emergency Room
“I mean, people have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room.” – George W. Bush, July 10, 2007, Cleveland, Ohio
This sentence has been ringing in my ears since July. Fool that I am, I did not understand just how easy it all is. Gee, my MS is acting up — any guesses as to what they’ll do for me down at the emergency room? How about this rotator cuff problem? I’ve been trying to get an MRI for three months only to learn now that I could have just walked right in! Oh, then there’s that little problem of individual health insurance coverage for a partially disabled person with a chronic illness. Guess they’ll help me out with that, too!
Oh, here comes that fantasy of mine again…
The members of all three branches of the United States government are stripped of their health insurance plans and all sources of income. Then they are assigned a salary equal to Mr. and Mrs. Average American. They are stripped of any special privileges of status. They are not allowed to quit this “game”, which shall last no less than three years.
During this period, regardless of pre-existing conditions, life-threatening diseases or catastrophic injury, they must muddle through as best they can under the current system. They, and their families, must choose a health care plan they can afford, wait for a doctor’s time and attention, sweat out extra tests which may be required and, if events so dictate, decide between purchasing their prescription medicines or maybe paying their mortgage, or food and clothing bills.
At the conclusion of the three-year period, this same group must implement a feasible plan making affordable basic health care available to all legal citizens of the United States. Failure to do so results in additional “game” time.
Yes, indeed, I do have a very rich fantasy life.
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