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[quote=Anonymous]I work in a hospital.  This last week the ICU was filled with critical patients who were there either because of lifestyle choices or because their choices exacerbated their condition. (alcoholic withdrawal, OD, DKA, endocarditis, COPD, AIDS, etc). Furthermore, all were Medicaid or Obamacare subsidized, every single one.  At a tune of $300,000 plus per patient.  Some of them on their third or fourth hospitalization for the same self inflicted crap.  You can't fool healthcare workers with excuses when your a1c is 17% and you swear you've been following doctors orders.  Or your blood alcohol is 0.25 and you swear you haven't been drinking.  People say a lot of stuff.  Now, there are poor unfortunate souls who were dealt a bad hand through no fault of their own and everyone probably knows one or two like the ones mentioned above.  You know what?  That's not what is filling the ER and ICU in the real world of paying for everyone's healthcare. it's really making the hospitals a lot of money.  Healthcare should not have a profit motive.  And bad choices shouldn't be rescued for the THIRD or FOURTH time.  [/quote]

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