Posted by Tina
We can forgive average Americans for being ignorant, confused or biased when it comes to politics and health care; it takes constant study to find the truth. But as Jason Lee points out in The American Thinker, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayer has revealed her ignorance about healthcare. Quoting Justice Sotomayer:
“What percentage of the American people who took their son or daughter to an emergency room and that child was turned away because the parent didn’t have insurance,” asked Sotomayor, “… do you think there’s a large percentage of the American population that would stand for the death of that child — (who) had an allergic reaction and a simple shot would have saved the child?”
This statement is false as we shall see. She either doesn’t know she’s lying or she doesn’t care and prefers to parrot the progressive liberal line. Either way it’s hard to believe that someone serving on the Supreme Court of the United States of America could be unaware of the law…not to mention decades of charitable giving on the part of doctors and hospitals across the country. But as Jason Lee points out, the law is very clear:
Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) is a U.S. Act of Congress passed in 1986 as part of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA). It requires hospitals to provide care to anyone needing emergency healthcare treatment regardless of citizenship, legal status or ability to pay. There are no reimbursement provisions. Participating hospitals may only transfer or discharge patients needing emergency treatment under their own informed consent, after stabilization, or when their condition requires transfer to a hospital better equipped to administer the treatment.
Maybe it galls the left that Reagan signed the bill making this the law of the land. One thing is clear, the left is never satisfied…NEVER…and will do or say anything to expand government control!
Jason Lee concludes:
It’s disheartening to note that Justice Sonia Sotomayor, as profoundly ignorant as she is, will be making a monumental decision about a 2,700 page health care law. Justice Sotomayor needs to have a talk with her brother.
Speaking of Fabrications, our President uttered a whopper recently when he said, “You’re-on-your-own economics doesn’t work.”
Here’s the full quote:
“You know, each of us is only here because somebody somewhere felt responsibility, yes to their families, but also to their fellow citizens. Also to our country’s future. That’s the American story. The American story is not just about what we do on our own. Yes, we’re rugged individualists, we expect personally responsibility and everybody out there has got to work hard and carry their weight,” President Obama said at a fundraiser with college students at the University of Vermont.
“We also have always understood that we wouldn’t win the race for new jobs and businesses, and middle class security if we were just applying some ‘you’re on your own economics,'” Obama said.
“It’s been tried in our history and it hasn’t worked,” Obama said. “It didn’t work when we tried it in the decade before the Great Depression. It didn’t work when we tried it in the last decade. We just tried this. What they’re peddling has been tried — it did not work!”
The President thinks he’s being clever but he has little proof that this outrageous back handed slam on rugged individualism, freedom, and free market capitalism can be defined in such calculating, simplistic terms.
America’s rugged individuals tamed this land that we love. Our nation grew in strength and size because rugged individuals and entrepreneurs had the freedom to act, to build, and to carve out a life. they made it possible for millions of other Americans to find work, feed their families and save for their own and their children’s futures. They made it possible for America to thrive as a nation, to educate our children, to build hospitals, colleges, libraries, parks, theaters, and museums. It’s not an obscure bit of history oran incidental footnote! It is the very essence of America. Rugged individualism begins with the notion that everyone has within himself the power to create and succeed…to make a life from nothing…and it ends with a charitable heart willing to share the abundance.
Every dime…EVERY DIME that government has taken from the private sector to fund President Obama’s preferred progressive model has been there to take because of the efforts of individuals working and striving for themselves and their families. Every single day Americans from all walks of life get up, get dressed and go to work…on their own. These Americans should be the role models held up to emulate by our President. Instead he holds government and a lifetime of dependency and poverty as the ultimate, more important ideal.
I am deeply offended at the naked, unabashed hatred for freedom and American values that the President’s remarks contain. I am offended that Sotomayer would entertain the idea that Americans working in hospitals are cruel and thoughtless enough to turn a very sick child away to his death rather than treat him!
The President is wrong on his history too. The depression was longer and deeper because of progressive policies like his. The economic problems we face are largely due to progressive policies and programs adopted over the last 80 years. Progressivism is dog****!
(It had to be said.)
This is absolutely unacceptable, she should be pressured to step down. She doesn’t belong on the bench, unless its a park bench. Her appointment was made because of her race, gender and and politics, not on her judicial wisdom. That much should be obvious to anyone now. Sotomayor must go and so must Obama.
She should have at least recused herself in this case…I agree, a park bench that would better suit her…lol!
Real estate: “Location! Location! Location!”
Progressive Democrat extremists: “Agenda! Agenda! Agenda!”
Let the people awaken!
As far as I’m concerned they are all idiots.
I believe the law says you can get emergency care only though, not actual health care. The ER is obligated to save your life, but tests and long term care for chronic conditions is not allowed.
Princess if nothing else I share your frustration and disgust at the state of our country.
If you’ve been to an emergency room in the last decade or so you know that any ailment now constitutes an emergency. People without insurance use it all the time as a walk in clinic. It’s one of the reasons that hospital costs have gone up so much. It’s one of the reasons that some hospitals have gone out of business near our border. It’s one of the problems that must be addressed.
If there are those with cronic conditions that haven’t found treatment they need to seek assistane in finding what is available or they need to work out a payment plan with doctors, clinics and the like. One alternative is a state sponsored hospital like Davis but most clinics and hospitals have payment plans. We use credit for our cars, houses and televisions why not healthcare? If a person isn’t qualified for medicade or medicare and they don’t have insurance the only option is a payment plan but they won’t be refused care as long as they are wiling to work out a paymnet plan.
There will always be those who can afford the very best doctors/hospitals and the latest in healthcare options. Most of the rest of us would be better off with a few changes to bring costs down: create competition by allowing health insurance purchases across state lines; allow variety and options of insurance plans; scale back costly bureaucratic layers in Washington, the states and in the docs offices and hositals; Allow for preexisting conditions; restore patient control.
Both insurance and healthcare have gone up in large part because the government got involved. Some say that technology has made healthcare expensive but under normal conditions the cost of things, like MRI machines, goes down, not up, as the public utilizes them.
Our government eliminated free markets with the first tariff.
Oh my, you must be joking.
Is this a April Fool blog?
The people were not deeply affected by the first tariff as you imply in your limited response, anonymous.
Much later progressive ideas took hold and started us down the road that brought us where we are today. The current President barely attempts to hide his destructive progressive ways…and the only when he’s electioneering.
Of course it’s not an april fools blog.
(What is your point…to channel Q?)