Again: If the father of your kids has “plenty of money” and you run a profitable business, how are your kids on Medicaid?

I only know what you wrote. You said you’d paid more in taxes for your business than your kids received in Medicaid. If you’re paying taxes for your business (which means you’re likely a pass-through and, if not, it’s no wonder you’ve got problems) why is your kid on Medicaid?

In that instance, who funds the rural hospital? I understand (maybe incorrectly) that practically all hospitals are subsidized by the Federal government, but aren’t they also paid for by the local municipality? Or at least the state? In that case, $1M is quite a bit of money although it’s a trivial amount for the US…

No, there’s not. If you say “it’s failing because it’s underfunded” then the obvious solution is to “throw money at the problem” to fix it. That’s the obvious solution to underfunding, isn’t it? What other option is there?

I mostly agree with youbut take issue that the waiting lines are due to lack of something less than an ER being available. The article says that the holiday season always brings this phenomenon about. To me, that can easily be attributed to less-acute care facilities being shut down. In the US, you’re not going to…

True. And even the minority opinion states our affidavit-signing good old boy is an “odious” racist so I’m not arguing with you or Churchill.

Or he actually is OK with immigration reform. I don’t know why that’s so impossible to believe. More to the point, I don’t know why Democrats don’t make it an issue and give it to him.

That’s just the point though.

How can anyone be to the left of Feinstein?! Who are they going to nominate? Lenin?

So she’s working to impeach the guy that says he’s willing to work on immigration so Mike Pence can take over and immediately shitcan any effort to even look at the issue?

I take it that means you’re holding yourself out as an expert, right?

If you can’t afford to pay for things your kid needs, then they’re suffering, correct? If you are unable to alleviate that suffering because you lack funds, how are you not responsible for that suffering? If you’re responsible for that suffering, how is that not abuse?

No, I’ve explained to you that expecting people to act responsibly is not the equivalent of “fuck you, I got mine.” The fact you confuse the two explains why you don’t like my opinion.

The law can order him to pay you a million dollars. If he doesn’t have it, that order isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.

No, the article makes it clear that those people showed up at the ER and it was full so they had to WAIT in an ambulance. They basically converted the ambulances into mobile waiting rooms.

You’ve yet to cite a single “fact” and apparently are one of the many that confuse your opinions with fact.

Neither of those horseshit links apply since this author is literally saying paying more money is the solution to the “problem.”

Take a look at the US health care system - where we pay more than many other countries and get worse outcomes. Take a look at the US education system - where we pay much more per student and have some of the dumbest people breathing. Take a look at the US military - where we spend more than the next 8 countries…

More like somewhere between a communist and a fascist but I get your point that Democrats have become corporatists and the right’s gone full fascist. No real argument there but I think that the left is moving past corporatist and going full Bernie.

Those are indeed all problems. But they exist because it’s not profitable for rural hospitals to operate. If you go single-payer, do you really think the government is going to open up a hospital in every area?