Actually when I told my husband about this that was his experience as well. Only it was his friend breaking the glass jaw of some dude dressed as a monk that grabbed him. Voom, a door to the outside appeared instantaneously.

Yes, so place blame where it belongs. Not on the desperate people who resort to this.

I think I could have got myself out of their REEEEEEL quick like.

I (fortunately apparently) never watch TV. Honestly thought this really WAS a joke.

"I would imagine that this particular case has less to do with the doctors and nurses there and more to do with hospital policy."

The "sick fucks" may be members of the same communities. Much of this is FUBU.

Poverty. Needing to do survival sex. Transgender women who have no other choice and without which they will be more detectably trans (which in many cases is a death sentence).

You mean this Jackson Memorial? [www.lambdalegal.org]

Great. Then no students attending should get federal student loans, the school should get no tax breaks or other governmental assistance. If you want to suck off the government's teat or be except from taxation, you must accept that you cannot then discriminate against people in that broader society.

"I never said people shouldn't get health care"

Are you kidding me? I worked in suburban Louisiana after residency and went to medical school in NC. While in Louisiana I saw a urologist repeatedly admit a woman (because he was forced to by EMTALA) to the hospital to treat her large obstructing kidney stone that led to repeated kidney infections. He would then…

Let me start with a quote from a conservative economist (Roger Brinner): "The plural of anecdote is 'not data".

And only a sub human piece of shit would suggest that we let someone die because they did something stupid. Are you going to accept that title?

Until you need care that costs $500,000.

The vast majority of uninsured patients in the US do not have a primary care doctor they can see. I volunteer my time, and perhaps your wife does too. However, we cover only a fraction of the need. In addition going to an ER is not free. Many hospitals and physicians will certainly treat you because they are required…

I do. Two days a week at a clinic that serves low income, uninsured, and under-insured patients. For the last 6 years.

"I'd say that cancer was much more common for Egyptians than with Paleolithic people"

This is just.... awesome.

"I don't understand; is there a limit on how many HPV tests can be given per year? No, right?"

You might want to ask your provider then if there is a more reasonably priced alternative. For example Citalopram (Celexa) is 95% as good as Escitalopram (Lexapro) for about 1/100th the price. That's not the case with every med. But if you are willing to try, there are often at least somewhat less expensive…