CARPE DIEM: Reason.tv: What If Government Ran Health Care?

Saturday, June 27, 2009

At 6/27/2009 11:49 AM, Anonymous said...: Never sat in an emergency room for hours waiting on them to check your insurance documents have you?
At 7/01/2009 8:31 AM, Uncle Bob said...: Anonymous 11:49

Nope. But, I have waited my turn while they deal with two heart attacks and a GI bleed. It's called prioritization. You just weren't that important.

Or perhaps, you were just a victim of union staff that went on break.

That reminds me of a situation that seems to repeat itself. We were busting at the seams with illness. It was madness. We needed to get people out of rooms and off to other areas to make room for the new ones coming in. The transportation staff was overwhelmed. So, my friend in charge asked a tech to transport one to MRI and others to a medical floor. She replied that it wasn't her job and she didn't have to. No one went anywhere.

So, you have a lot more of that to look forward to with Government care. Best wishes. Enjoy the wait. Pack a lunch maybe? Government food sucks.

Dr. Mark J. Perry is a professor of economics and finance in the School of Management at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan. Perry holds two graduate degrees in economics (M.A. and Ph.D.) from George Mason University near Washington, D.C. In addition, he holds an MBA degree in finance from the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. In addition to a faculty appointment at the University of Michigan-Flint, Perry is also a visiting scholar at The American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.