The other evening I was working on a heat pump and the resident there was not in very good health. After I left he was taken to Lake Cumberland Regional Medical Center having seizures and was kept there for about two days. Then LCRMC discharged him and because there was no one there to take him home (where there was no heat) they were kind enough to send him home in a cab. He got out of the car and fell in the yard and could not get up. The cabbie was nice enough to get him up and put him on the porch and some relatives who lived nearby came and took him home with them. When I saw him yesterday they said he was just beginning to take solid food. Who on earth would dump a person with seizures in the yard with no one at home? Question answered.It is difficult for me to imagine that a hospital would treat a person like this but if you can't pay the bill or if you can't pay enough they have no use for you and only want to get you out to make room for paying customers.
One hospital I heard of in Eastern Kentucky gave notice they are not going to take patients through Emergency unless it is a true emergency. To them a real emergency is something life threatening. The next nearest hospital is 30 miles away. Now, this is the way emergency rooms should be used but many are aware that the ER is the primary care facility for many. For this one, no longer.
The detractors of the ACA claim that no one goes without care. To this I say, "really." Have you kept your head under a tub or what? At last millions are actually going to have access to a primary care physician and will not have to rely on the ER for minor ailments. Everyone should remember that a minor ailment is only minor as long as it is happening to someone else.
And you're ticked off because your insurance company no longer wants to provide you with the policy you have. Try a mile in this guy's shoes.
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