Obscene Abuse Of Emergency Room Care

[AAR]

We've got single women on welfare having 8 babies at a time through in
vitro fertilisation for which taxpayers will pay the hospital costs of
well over a million dollars (plus millions in welfare to raise the
children)!

We've got illegal aliens getting "free" emergency room care, with
American taxpayers picking up the tab!

And just when we think it couldn't get any worse, we have this...


9 patients made nearly 2,700 ER visits in Texas

Associated Press, April 1, 2009; 9:19 PM

"AUSTIN, Texas -- Just nine people accounted for nearly 2,700 of the
emergency room visits in the Austin area during the past six years at
a cost of $3 million to taxpayers and others, according to a report.
The patients went to hospital emergency rooms 2,678 times from 2003
through 2008, said the report from the nonprofit Integrated Care
Collaboration, a group of health care providers who care for low-
income and uninsured patients". ...

"The average emergency room visit costs $1,000. Hospitals and
taxpayers paid the bill through government programs such as Medicare
and Medicaid, Kitchen said." ...

How much abuse of America's health care system will "caring and
giving" taxpayers take before they finally say enough is enough and
rebel?

Transferring those costs to "taxpayer" funded and subsidized health
care insurance doesn't solve the problem either!

AAR