You live in South East Texas, just a short drive away Houston which houses the greatest medical facilities in the world. The reason your local hospital sucks is because the medical resources are all centered there.
In 1979 my uncle had a heart attack. He was lucky enough to make it to the local hospital.
The hospital was not setup for cardiac patients. My uncle was put in an ambulance to make the almost 100 mile trip to the nearest hospital that had a cardiac unit.
My uncle died while in transit.
From 1979 - 2012 nothing has changed. The local hospital has not expanded its facility to offer any kind of specialized care.
High risk pregnancy? You are shipped off.
Heart attack? No use in even stopping.
A couple of the local doctors are building their own out patient clinics. Hopefully with some competition in town the larger hospital will be forced to upgrade its services.
Back to the OP.
If the current rural hospitals can not provide services right now, what is going to happen with millions of people get insurance?
People that have not had a check in years are going to head down to the local doctor. We are going to see a sudden surge in patients, and no way to handle the extra load.
Providing insurance to people is great, but we have to have a way to provide the service. Doctors are already backlogged 2 - 3 weeks. In some cases the doctors are booked out to a month, or more.
Love how everyone posting in this thread just rips on Trump for being the instinctual equivalent of a pet rock . . . while ignoring that pretty everything everything he stated in his blurb on Obamacare in 100% true.
plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we dont - True, you either pay the fine, err, Tax, or buy government approved health insurance.
which purportedly covers at least ten million more people - True, but below
without adding a single new doctor
but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents - True, Obamacare forces everyone to either buy health insurance or pay the tax, and the extra IRS agents are there to make sure you do. This was big news before it was signed in 2010, you guys have short memories.
written by a committee whose chairman
says he doesnt understand it - Again, true. Its 2700 pages of the densest legalese written.
passed by a Congress that didnt read it but
exempted themselves from it - True, at the time of its signing, not a single Congressperson had read the bill in its entirety.
and signed by a President who smokes - True, though I hear he's been trying to quit.
with funding administered by a treasury chief who didnt pay his taxes - True again. Though, in his defense, the tax software he was using was difficult to understand.
for which well be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect - Partially true. The bill was signed in 2010 and its most prominent provisions don't go into effect until 2014. More minor parts have taken effect already though.
by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare - Truth again, the SS fund has been raided by Congress every time the needed quick cash over the least 4 decades. Now that there's more people drawing money from the pool than are paying in, its pretty much bankrupt.
all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese - Eh, most politicians are obese. Regina's thick, and that button looks like its straining a little. Not as obese as other politicians, or many Americans though.
and financed by a country thats broke!!!!! - There's a doubt that the USA is broke? Were just shy of 16 trillion dollars in debt.
You live in South East Texas, just a short drive away Houston which houses the greatest medical facilities in the world. The reason your local hospital sucks is because the medical resources are all centered there.
I'm glad eskimospy pointed out how foolish you are so I don't have to waste anymore of my time pointing out that the gravy you love to gobble up is actually a giant load of semen.Love how everyone posting in this thread just rips on Trump for being the instinctual equivalent of a pet rock . . . while ignoring that pretty everything everything he stated in his blurb on Obamacare in 100% true.
plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we dont - True, you either pay the fine, err, Tax, or buy government approved health insurance.
which purportedly covers at least ten million more people - True, but below
without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents - True, Obamacare forces everyone to either buy health insurance or pay the tax, and the extra IRS agents are there to make sure you do. This was big news before it was signed in 2010, you guys have short memories.
written by a committee whose chairman
says he doesnt understand it - Again, true. Its 2700 pages of the densest legalese written.
passed by a Congress that didnt read it but
exempted themselves from it - True, at the time of its signing, not a single Congressperson had read the bill in its entirety.
and signed by a President who smokes - True, though I hear he's been trying to quit.
with funding administered by a treasury chief who didnt pay his taxes - True again. Though, in his defense, the tax software he was using was difficult to understand.
for which well be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect - Partially true. The bill was signed in 2010 and its most prominent provisions don't go into effect until 2014. More minor parts have taken effect already though.
by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare - Truth again, the SS fund has been raided by Congress every time the needed quick cash over the least 4 decades. Now that there's more people drawing money from the pool than are paying in, its pretty much bankrupt.
all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese - Eh, most politicians are obese. Regina's thick, and that button looks like its straining a little. Not as obese as other politicians, or many Americans though.
and financed by a country thats broke!!!!! - There's a doubt that the USA is broke? Were just shy of 16 trillion dollars in debt.
Probably. One of the jokes on the daily show was that Obama's medical record was like 5 pages long while McCain's record was literally thousands of pages.Trump doesn't know anymore about healthcare than Obama. Not less, but not more.
Trump doesn't know anymore about healthcare than Obama. Not less, but not more.
Trump has his rectum, and he's not afraid to pull anything out of it, either.
Obama has the entire federal govt system with attendant armies of very knowledgeable people from the CDC & so forth at his disposal.
Trump has his rectum, and he's not afraid to pull anything out of it, either.
Employing false equivalency is beneath you, so just stop it.
Obama has the entire federal govt system with attendant armies of very knowledgeable people from the CDC & so forth at his disposal.
Trump has his rectum, and he's not afraid to pull anything out of it, either.
Employing false equivalency is beneath you, so just stop it.
Except, of course, for his head.
Right wing panderers like Trump generally do not suffer from cranio-rectal infarction, rather exploiting those who do. He's a huckster, a con man, a very successful swindler whose actual intelligence is far greater than the crap he peddles. Bet on it.
Rural areas are always going to be underserved because it is not cost effective to serve them more.
If we can have highways going through rural areas, why cant we have health care?
Yet he didn't address health care at all. He decided to play the insurance card. Obama may have access, but "knowledgeable" people are quite concerned and the CDC doesn't have the answers because the work hasn't been done. On day one the experts should have been consulted and allowed to formulate a rational comprehensive plan. This is hardly that, and it was never attempted, so Republican obstructionism is not the issue. Obama and Trump really are willfully ignorant. That does not stop them from talking nor using their power.
There are only 2 kinds of people who care what Trump thinks: People being paid by him, and people who lack critical thinking skills. I feel sorry if people are either.
Why do we have to attack the person making the statement?
It seems to me that rather then discussing the statement, people would rather discredit the person making the statement.
Hilariously false, as already shown in this thread. The ACA has provisions for adding 16,000 new doctors.
No, that's 16,000 care workers, only 500 of which are doctors.
Short memories? Why would we remember something that's a complete lie? Hell, you can't even get the lies correct. First, the number being thrown around by the crazies was 1,000 or so, not 16,000. Secondly, that number wasn't even remotely close either. The actual number was 291 but get this - the majority of then (193) are to make sure people get the right tax CREDITS, not to enforce it.
It is 1600 total IRS workers, but you Liberals out to be used to exaggurating.
That's what staff exist for. Like, that's their entire purpose.
How any articles you you signed in your life that you never read or when you finally did read you didn't understand?
SS and Medicare are not bankrupt, and the US is not broke.
SS is no longer self sustaining and no matter how you slice it, if you have to borrow money to pay you bills, YOU ARE BROKE
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Why do we have to attack the person making the statement?
It seems to me that rather then discussing the statement, people would rather discredit the person making the statement.
So congratulations. Only one statement was inaccurate and a few were exaggurations. It's not like he made a whole bunch of lies on a comapaign trail or anything....