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Healthcare USA: 2004

Found via Grunt Doc comes something that I rarely do: present you with a "must read." This essay comes from Victor Davis Hanson, and it involves his recent visit to an Emergency Department at his hospital.

A sample:

"One really does make a decision of sorts to buy on credit a 30,000 twin-cab Ford pick-up, or pay $100 a month for a cell-phone family-plan than purchase cheap HMO health insurance."

and

"In some of America's most impoverished landscapes, our government at great cost and in the hallowed traditions of American humanity and magnanimity is offering hourly excellent medical care to literally anyone who walks through the emergency room door, whether they have a broken arm or a sprained ankle. That is how it should be—but also how it should be acknowledged as well.

Posted at March 15, 2004 05:54 PM | TrackBack