"Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> David Langford <ansible@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Niven said a good way to help hospitals stem financial losses is to
>> spread rumors in Spanish within the Latino community that emergency
>> rooms are killing patients in order to harvest their organs for
>> transplants.
>
> Can anyone confirm that he actually said that?
Yes, would be good to see a source.
> Even if the rumors would be believed by most Spanish speakers without
> spreading to many English speakers, which seems dubious, not all
> Spanish speakers are illegal aliens, not all English speakers are
> *not* illegal aliens, and not all illegal aliens are deadbeats.
>
> Anyhow, as long as emergency rooms are required to accept all comers,
> belief in such a rumor would just cause Hispanics to be admitted
> only when they keel over unconscious in public, at which time their
> treatment would be more expensive.
>
> Also, what about people with contagious diseases? Does Niven really
> think they should be encouraged to remain untreated and continue to
> spread their diseases to the whole population? I doubt that would
> save much money.
>
> There is a problem, but the solution involves finding ways to provide
> good treatments for reasonable costs. There have been too many
> iterations of ten percent better treatments that cost ten times as
> much. How about an insurance plan that provides 1970 level medicine
> for 1970 prices? Nothing invented since 1970 would be covered unless
> it was cheaper than the 1970 treatment.
Milk, antacids and stress councilling for ulcers...
Karl Johanson
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