Obama Mercy Hospital

[zdunklee]

Nobody is ever turned away from the hospital.

I don't know what hospital you are talking about, but my sister works at one as a nurse and they DO turn people away at times. You have to have a pretty good reason to be turned away, but it does happen a lot more often than you think.

Insurance is a scam all the way around, the hoops they make people jump through has caused countless deaths and hardships that could have been handeled in the first place if insurance companies wouldn't drag their feet and find ways to deny claims (they have people whose job it is to specifically find reasons to deny them).

Not to mention insurance is one of the reasons that people without insurance have to pay such high prices, because insurance companies like Blue Cross only pay certain amounts for certain things and most of the time the cost is not covered, thus the uninsured people subsidize the insured people even tho most don't realize that is what happens.

Mike I am in much the same situation as you, I have a bad knee that I need to have checked out, but I only have major medical because it is all I can afford, thus I have to wait until something happens to my knee that causes me to go to the emergency room, otherwise it will be considered a pre-existing condition when I do get better insurance. I could probably prevent further problems by having it looked at now, but that isn't an option unless I want to have to pay for everything from now on out of my own pocket, which I cannot afford.