[Ron61]

One of my big concerns about the health care bills is if they actually do provide an insurance that a poor person can afford, then our over crowded emergency rooms will be a night mare as every person who needs a band aid will be running in. They have had two investigations into the hospitals here in the past year because of the slowness of treatment in the Emergency rooms and can't come up with any solution as they always have people standing outside because they are so crowded. About the only thing the investigations did was to say that they are overcrowded and don't have enough doctors. Also that they need to treat the serious injured before the ones with less severe injuries no matter if they just got there and the others have been there for hours. One woman died in the emergency room at RMC a couple of years ago and the investigation determined that they were taking patients in the order they came in, with insured getting preference. That hospital has been closed 3 times and is now open again under new management.

Ron