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OEsheepdog
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From the Forest to the Shore, Connecticut, USA
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March 12
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Director of Change
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An unnamed non-profit health care provider
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Change is good...that's what I keep telling my colleagues. It's difficult and hard. It's challenging and rewarding. It's fraught with peril. It needs to be done...yesterday!

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Salon.com
SEPTEMBER 3, 2009 5:58PM

Reforming US health care is not the end of the world

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From my friend Leigh Bailey: " No one should die because they cannot afford health care, and no one should go broke because they get sick. If you agree, please post this as your status for the rest of the day." Any questions?

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Andy
yes!!!!!! let the message be heard.....
These posts and the comments on them are filling the feed right now. What a cool thing.
Hard to disagree with that sentiment.
I should do a post on the amazing things that are happening for children's coverage since Obama signed the CHIP bill in February. He's got some fabulous people working for him that are undoing all the cruel policies of the last eight years. Health care for kids is improving greatly under Obama and the Democratic CHIP bill.
wow, this is the best day in a long while!!! this is my new mantra. love love love, oe!!
You're right of course, but I wouldn't lose any sleep if someone took Glenn Beck's insurance away. Pre-existing stupidity.
R
yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
Oh, man you know how I feel about this>.. go.
Amen! Been there, done that; went and waited for 12 hours in the ER because I didn't have insurance. Friends and family have suffered much more. Enough. Fight for human rights in America!
Eva T.
My experience with emergency rooms is that they triage on seriousness of complaint, not insurance status. If you can wait for hours without your health getting worse, they'll let you wait. If you need emergency care, now, you'll get it.

I used to think my local ER was a place where the average person would die of old age before they saw a doctor, but when my son was badly hurt, they took out of line for registration, straight in to the doctor, where normally they did wait in line for registration, register, wait to see a triage nurse, wait to see a doctor to diagnose the problem (say broken leg) wait for tests/x-rays, wait to see specialist who would fix the problem (put a cast on).
I surely agree. But am also curious about how this got started... Had a good time with it on my True/Slant page; you're welcome to visit: www.trueslant.com/franjohns
Right there with you.