You’ve got to know that things are dire when the AMA starts sounding like a bunch of socialists.
Because these “so-called” doctors know that preventing the poor from health care just forces them to emergency rooms for routing treatments that could be far better accomplished in a doctor’s office. Wait times increase, hospital’s don’t get paid and the hidden costs of GOP stupidity continues to increase at phenomenal rates.
Ounce of prevention, pound of cure, yada yada yada…
More appropriate for this president: “An ounce of pretention is worth a pound of manure.”
No matter what Republicans say, you can’t get preventive care in an emergency room. Having been in emergency rooms myself, they are really exactly for what they say they are - emergencies. Last time I was in one I checked the labels on the drawers - every other drawer made me shudder at the thought of someone opening it to use the equipment inside on me. The room I was in was equipped for emergency surgery of all types EXCEPT delicate ones.
Using emergency rooms for normal preventive care and regular checkups is incredibly stupid, especially since they’d have to drop everything when a real emergency came through the door.
This is the problem that the GOP is going to have… 14-24 million is easy to remember, and is going to be everywhere now… Even arguing against it they’ll have to say the number…
It’s a lot easier to remember than the GOP message of, “Nuh uh!”