Comments on: Congressional candidate fundraiser http://www.ashleycecil.com/2006/10/21/congressional-candidate-fund-raiser Painting with a Cause Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:07:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Ashley Cecil http://www.ashleycecil.com/2006/10/21/congressional-candidate-fund-raiser/comment-page-1#comment-28875 Ashley Cecil Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:00:51 +0000 http://www.ashleycecil.com/2006/10/21/congressional-candidate-fund-raiser/#comment-28875 Malaya, you can email at ashley(dot)cecil(at)gmail.com Malaya, you can email at ashley(dot)cecil(at)gmail.com

]]> By: Malaya http://www.ashleycecil.com/2006/10/21/congressional-candidate-fund-raiser/comment-page-1#comment-28867 Malaya Mon, 02 Mar 2009 05:30:59 +0000 http://www.ashleycecil.com/2006/10/21/congressional-candidate-fund-raiser/#comment-28867 do you guys have a recommendation section, i'd like to suggest some stuff do you guys have a recommendation section, i’d like to suggest some stuff

]]> By: Ashley Cecil http://www.ashleycecil.com/2006/10/21/congressional-candidate-fund-raiser/comment-page-1#comment-824 Ashley Cecil Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:39:46 +0000 http://www.ashleycecil.com/2006/10/21/congressional-candidate-fund-raiser/#comment-824 Health insurance is not equal to auto, home, and vacation insurance and therefore should not be treated as such. Vacations are a luxury; access to health care is far more fundamental. Let the luxuries thrive in an open market economy. Although I don't feel that tax payers should pay for illegal citizens and illness due to poor life style choices, I personally would rather eat that cost and provide for the people who rightfully deserve it than not provide anything at all. No system is perfect. Lastly, from personal experience, let me tell you that the obligation to treat the uninsured without reimbursement sounds nicer than it actually is. The uninsured do not receive the same treatment and the "without reimbursement" part is a joke. Granted, they may never pay, but their financial lives are ruined to the point of no return. Health insurance is not equal to auto, home, and vacation insurance and therefore should not be treated as such. Vacations are a luxury; access to health care is far more fundamental. Let the luxuries thrive in an open market economy.

Although I don’t feel that tax payers should pay for illegal citizens and illness due to poor life style choices, I personally would rather eat that cost and provide for the people who rightfully deserve it than not provide anything at all. No system is perfect.

Lastly, from personal experience, let me tell you that the obligation to treat the uninsured without reimbursement sounds nicer than it actually is. The uninsured do not receive the same treatment and the “without reimbursement” part is a joke. Granted, they may never pay, but their financial lives are ruined to the point of no return.

]]> By: Shoulung http://www.ashleycecil.com/2006/10/21/congressional-candidate-fund-raiser/comment-page-1#comment-821 Shoulung Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:11:37 +0000 http://www.ashleycecil.com/2006/10/21/congressional-candidate-fund-raiser/#comment-821 "I believe we must immediately begin to explore every possible mechanism for creating a universal health care system in which every citizen has health insurance independent of his or her employment. This could be done by expanding Medicare to cover every American, or by establishing some other universal insurance system." No. De-regulate health insurance to create a truly competitive market, like that for every other insurance type (auto, home, vacation, etc.) and costs will go down. Also, stop providing "free" health care to illegal infiltrators via Emergency Rooms - these costs have to be paid for by someone, and it should not be the other customers nor the taxpayers. http://www.jpands.org/vol10no1/cosman.pdf "While politicians often mention there are 43 million without health insurance in this country, the report estimates that at least 25 percent of those are illegal immigrants. The figure could be as high as 50 percent. Not being insured does not mean they don't get medical care. Under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1985, hospitals are obligated to treat the uninsured without reimbursement. "Government imposes viciously stiff fines and penalties on any physician and any hospital refusing to treat any patient that a zealous prosecutor deems an emergency patient, even though the hospital or physician screened and declared the patient's illness or injury non-emergency," says the report. "But government pays neither hospital nor physician for treatments. In addition to the fiscal attack on medical facilities and personnel, EMTALA is a handy truncheon with which to pummel politically unpopular physicians by falsely accusing them of violating EMTALA." According to the report, between 1993 and 2003, 60 California hospitals closed because half their services became unpaid. Another 24 California hospitals verge on closure, the author writes. " “I believe we must immediately begin to explore every possible mechanism for creating a universal health care system in which every citizen has health insurance independent of his or her employment. This could be done by expanding Medicare to cover every American, or by establishing some other universal insurance system.”

No.

De-regulate health insurance to create a truly competitive market, like that for every other insurance type (auto, home, vacation, etc.) and costs will go down. Also, stop providing “free” health care to illegal infiltrators via Emergency Rooms – these costs have to be paid for by someone, and it should not be the other customers nor the taxpayers.
http://www.jpands.org/vol10no1/cosman.pdf
“While politicians often mention there are 43 million without health insurance in this country, the report estimates that at least 25 percent of those are illegal immigrants. The figure could be as high as 50 percent.

Not being insured does not mean they don’t get medical care.

Under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1985, hospitals are obligated to treat the uninsured without reimbursement.

“Government imposes viciously stiff fines and penalties on any physician and any hospital refusing to treat any patient that a zealous prosecutor deems an emergency patient, even though the hospital or physician screened and declared the patient’s illness or injury non-emergency,” says the report. “But government pays neither hospital nor physician for treatments. In addition to the fiscal attack on medical facilities and personnel, EMTALA is a handy truncheon with which to pummel politically unpopular physicians by falsely accusing them of violating EMTALA.”

According to the report, between 1993 and 2003, 60 California hospitals closed because half their services became unpaid. Another 24 California hospitals verge on closure, the author writes. “

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