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djean111

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1. The entire article is heartbreaking.

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Thu Nov 21, 2013, 06:15 AM

Nov 2013

And effectively (but most likely a futile effort) illustrates why the assholes who glibly assert that people can just go to emergency rooms and get free health care need to STFU. Well, STFU and stop blandly denying the poor life-saving health care. Maybe try out the ER themselves.

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I Watched My Patients Die of Treatable Diseases Because They Were Poor [View all] xchrom Nov 2013 OP

The entire article is heartbreaking. djean111 Nov 2013 #1

k&r for the truth, however depressing it may be. n/t Laelth Nov 2013 #2

I wish we had a way to punish those states that don't take the LuvNewcastle Nov 2013 #3

Another "Christian" ... Scuba Nov 2013 #7

We have some terrible Christians all over our government. LuvNewcastle Nov 2013 #8

Yep, punch that Bible, then punch a hippie. Scuba Nov 2013 #10

kick and rec n/t intaglio Nov 2013 #4

45,000 people die each year due to lack of health insurance Major Nikon Nov 2013 #5

It's mind boggling... Phentex Nov 2013 #9

Deal is a total a##hole, but then you knew that. brer cat Nov 2013 #12

They will still die zipplewrath Nov 2013 #13

That this happens in the US is a national shame azurnoir Nov 2013 #6

This is your health care status quo. Enthusiast Nov 2013 #11

Every family that has to bury Ilsa Nov 2013 #14

You always seem to find good stuff and this is one ofthe best. Thanks for posting it. marble falls Nov 2013 #15

Disgraceful. City Lights Nov 2013 #16

. myrna minx Nov 2013 #17

K&R PETRUS Nov 2013 #18

I have a brother that was turned away from UTMB for his pancreatitis. He finally got on Dustlawyer Nov 2013 #19

Those religious "nonprofit" hospitals really rack it up Ilsa Nov 2013 #24

But, but, all those waiting lines and horror stories from Canada and FREEDOM! mountain grammy Nov 2013 #20

K & R !!! WillyT Nov 2013 #21

SMH Mr Dixon Nov 2013 #22

Good Old American Exceptionalism colsohlibgal Nov 2013 #23

Not fair at all. Insurance companies are equal-opportunity parasites, they bleed everybody. n/t Egalitarian Thug Nov 2013 #25