Woman dies in hospital while being arrested

[AlexMack]

Originally Posted by Kevin

Free health care is not a right.

I didn't say it was...however, an MI is an emergency, not a routine doctor's appointment. Ambulances don't pick and choose their patients based upon who has insurance. It's now illegal in MA to be uninsured anyway.
Healthcare should be a right anyway-everyone is entitled to try and prolong their life as much as possible. Having lived in a country with free healthcare and one where healthcare is privatized, I've seen both sides of the fence and I can see the need for improvement in both systems.

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

centaur....devil's advocate...

why didn't he go to another facility?

**Kevin yo do have a point BTW**

or...why didn't (or did she) the nurse refer him to a facility that would probably see him?

It's a messed up situation no matter how u call it but somewhere along the line one has to wonder what could have been done to save this guy's live...

I don't know why the nurse wouldn't call him an ambulance. From hearing all the horror stories of Fallon clinics, I'm not surprised though. The standard of care seems to be low.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by centaur532

It's now illegal in MA to be uninsured anyway.

How does that work? That's pretty much a fee just for living. If I HAD to be insured, and my husband didn't work at a huge corperation with great insurance, we couldn't afford it. And I'm pretty sure we wouldn't qualify for Medicaid.

[AlexMack]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

How does that work? That's pretty much a fee just for living. If I HAD to be insured, and my husband didn't work at a huge corperation with great insurance, we couldn't afford it. And I'm pretty sure we wouldn't qualify for Medicaid.

I know Blue Cross Blue Shield have come out with some very inexpensive plans that provide very good coverage. My company uses Fallon for health insurance which I'm not wild about so I was looking at the BCBS plans. I use them now and I'd like to keep them.
http://www.getbluema.com is the website for their plans. There's also Masshealth and the medicare/medicaid programs but I don't know the qualifying factors for those. Masshealth is a pretty decent program as well. I would say that this law is the one good thing Romney has done for the state because it's pushing companies to be more flexible and allowing people to get insurance and good healthcare.