Okay, everyone at Facebook is having a time and a half over the healthcare debate. While I have some thoughts on the issue I got this scenario running around my head.....enjoy and go for it and debate it....
I like Wine, a lot, I could easily drink nightly but I don't I save it for special occasions. Now, roughly three glasses of 14.5% per volume of Chardonnay would put me over the limit of most states legal limit for driving, so I don't drive. I call a taxicab and head home.
As we get off the hwy into the neighborhood where I live a pair of 17 year olds (boys or girls take your pick) that are racing sideswipe my taxi driver and me.
As the police and ambulances arrive and extract the bodies from the scene, they take a breathanalyzer to each person. I register an 1.4% alcohol level.
Bodies are id and put into ambulances.
Except mine.
A healthcare rule has been enacted that those who disobey the mandated alcohol consumption levels will not be treated by a public healthcare option.
Even though I have private insurance, I wasn't driving, and I am near death.
The person with discriminating factors against them are left to not receive public health care and call for help on their own.
A police officer reads me my rights as prision hospital ambulance arrives 20 minutes after the other ambulance for the public hospitals have left and I am charged with committing a DUI even though I wasn't driving.
The three 17 yrs old recover and within a year the taxicab driver is back at work refusing to pick up intoxicated people as he has his own breathanalyzer in his car.
I am dead.
What is healthcare reform going to do when the law is conflicted with giving someone care in a public hospital?
I know this scenario would only happen in some Orwellian future, right?
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