Doonesbury Say What?

[thewayne]

"There are no Americans who don't have healthcare. Everybody in this country has access to healthcare."
-- Rep. Virginia Foxx

I guess she's the rep from the State of WTF, or perhaps the State of Denial. Or perhaps she just counts having no insurance and going to the ER being health care.

Comments

[vaudy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, in my experience, doctors like being paid. I'm pretty sure if I go into the average doctor's office (or even someplace like the urgent care clinics they have in Walgreens and CVS now), and say I have no money to pay them, they will very politely tell me that they can't see me.

Being able to go to the ER whether you can pay or not is not fucking health care, because you can only do that for, you know, emergencies. Preventative health is a pretty important part of healthcare (and maybe if people had better access to preventative healthcare, fewer people who can't pay would end up in the ER when their health problems become catastrophic).

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I first heard about the Walgreens clinic a month or two ago, I think that's a great idea. It may not be free, but it's beneficial. The Walgreens pharmacy by my apartment just went to 24 hours, which is cool, hopefully I'll never need it. One thing that I really like about what Obama is trying to do is they're trying to put more of an emphasis on prevention and improving health rather than treating everything as it happens, which could greatly decrease later term care.