Too bad the talk show hosts don’t ask Obama that question.
Here is a letter in today’s WSJ by a doctor in Tennessee who says that the uninsured are not denied care:
LETTERS
Better Approach to Free Health Care
The photo of a woman with no health insurance receiving care in Miami, which appeared with the article “Overhaul’s Contours Are Starting to Take Shape” (The Health-Care Bill, Sept. 9), gives light to the lie in the debate on health care. In my more than 25 years of practicing medicine, I have seen no one turned away for lack of funds. I have always and will continue to provide appropriate care without regard to how or if a patient pays. I have witnessed the same attitude from other physicians.
With the usual disdain for reality, both political parties have acquiesced to the bait-and-switch of “coverage” and “care.” The question should be: “How should doctors, hospitals and other providers be compensated for the care they give for free?” If the political class was really concerned about coverage, it would have some appreciation for care given without expense to taxpayers. Instead, the move is afoot to punish doctors, hospitals and patients with ever more stringent rules and regulations that have little to do with care but a lot to do with government control.
How about this? Get the government out of health care completely. Let doctors and hospitals get a tax break for their charity. The loss of a few tax dollars would be minuscule compared to the cost of a growing bureaucracy. However, I can’t imagine lawyers giving up a stranglehold on physicians.
Carl Stanberry, M.D.
Nashville, Tenn.
