From: "Gary Britt" 

That's a LIE.  An ambulance will come just as fast whether the person has
money or not.  Just ask all the welfare mommas who get their medical care
via an ambulance to the emergency room.  The emergency room will take them
and treat them for any life threatening problems whether she had insurance
or not.  County hospitals and free clinics will provide medical care that's
not life threatening for free or very discounted prices.

Its not government's job to feed people, provide them housing or
healthcare. People are responsible for providing for themselves (in
general).  Its government's job to make sure there is opportunity for those
who want to work to provide these things for themselves.

Gary

"Tony Williams"  wrote in message
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> Phil Payne wrote:
> >>That's the communist/socialist point of view though, "if
all cannot be
> >>equally successful, all must be equally unsuccessful." It's a rip
everyone
> >>down to the lowest common denominator system -- a completely flawed
point
> >
> > of
> >
> >>view as has been proven fruitless repeatedly... Yet one that the left
> >>continues to embrace as they secretly pine for the resurrection of their
> >>ideal model: the Soviet Union.
> >
> >
> > Did you ever go to the Soviet Union?
> >
> > A friend of mine slipped on a stone staircase in Tashkent Airport.  She
fell
> > against a step and broke a tooth out of her jaw.  Blood everywhere.
> >
> > There were two white-coated first aiders then within a few minutes - the
> > ambulance came within a quarter of an hour and she was on an operating
table
> > within the hour with a local anesthetic applied to the jaw and pretty
> > serious surgery performed to fix the tooth.  From the look of the
hospital
> > and the people milling around pre and post treatment, we weren't in any
way
> > privileged - the peasants were getting the same treatment.
> >
> > I wonder how she'd have faired under your version of capitalism.
>
> Without medical insurance she'd be paying about $1000 just to get an
> ambulance called out to the scene.
>
> --
> Tony

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