[hillbilly]

I'm going to tell it like it is, IMO,based on my own dealings.

Yes, we damn sure do need health care reform, but what I'm to define as health care reform is not what alot of folks may see fit. Yes, I want to see a change, but not the way other may like.

I have health issues myself, but I'm not going to get into that. I will use my daughter as an example though, and here goes.

When our daughter ( age 6, going on 7 at the time ) broke both bones in her arm playing in a softball game was treated like a piece of shit, thats when I decided our system has went strait to hell. We do, and always have had insurance that we pay dearly each month for but that didn't matter. When we took our daughter to the ER with both bones broken in her arm, one being through the skin and her arm was bent 90 degree between her wrist and elbo, she was treated with no respect ... even though we handed the hosp our insurance card and ''paid up front our 100.00 copay'' for using the ER.

Am I pissed that we pay a 100.00 co-pay if we must use the ER? Hell no. I do not have a problem with that.

But what I do have a problem with is the fact that ''we by-God paid for service'' just to be pushed to the side to someone who couldn't speak a damn word of English, someone who had no fucking ID of any kind, and this someone had no money nor insurance. It was a girl in her mid 20's that ''walked in the ER'' and a nurse came out in the hall to translate what the girl was trying to say to the lady behind the desk. The nurse said the girl had slipped and fell on her tail bone and she thinks she may have broke her tail bone.

OK, so the doctor has our daughter in the hall of the ER pulling and twisting her arm bones back strait .. kid is screaming in the ER hallway beside an open room full of people as he's re-setting her arm and then casting it before walking away.... all while the fucking Mexican gets X-rayed before our daughter and gets a private room while our daughter is treated like and animal in front of everyone ( even though our daughter was paid for up front and was there nearly an hour before the Mexican came in with no ID, money nor insurance .. and needed a translater to boot ).

I raised hell with the ER doctor for not taking care of our daughter in private rather than in front of everyone in the hallways double doors that everyone is walking in and out of to and from the ER from outside. He flat told me that the hosp don't make the laws, but must follow them and they must admit the hispanics into the ER with out a thing.

I told him we paid, and our daughter shoulda been in a room for medical service of that nature and not treated in front of a waiting room in the hallway. You know what he said to me? Well lemme tell ya what he said to me. He said , '' sir, I don't like it a bit better than you do, but the fact is they must be treated very well by law, and they can also sue us easier than you can ''.


My point is that we should not be spending a G-damn penny in taxes to take care of ANYONE other than tax paying English speaking citizens !!!! And ME, MYSELF AND I do not support anything otherwise!!!