And what, die? I think keeping people alive and preventing unnecessary deaths should be the priority first and foremost. Idaho should be made to improve their healthcare infrastructure, and then we can force them to stay in their state.
But as of right now, the idea of turning someone down at the hospital because their ID says a different state does not sit well with me.
Idaho needs to help Idahoans, and not push them onto another state.
Make Idaho great again!
Make Idaho reasonably sustainable for the first time!! ;)
So... Nobody should work across state lines... In the "United" states... Doesn't sound very United.
Work? Not what I said, but feel free to create your own narrative while I ignore you.
If people work across state lines, or travel at all, they need hospital services. You didn't say it, but a moment of thought would have revealed the implications.
If they are in the state and have an emergency, fine. But anything else they really need to burden their own tax payers.
Ok so why not just federalize health and bypass this me me meeeeee histrionic problem?
I’m fine with that as long as states don’t get to make laws that affect federal hospitals thereby pushing people to other states to create an unneeded burden on the out of state hospital.
Just... Pay for capacity in your population centers in some equitable way.
OH, OH!!! you could run for healthcare as a public service instead of a profit center 🤡
I don’t think you know what a hospital looks like when it is over capacity 🤡 but keep on talking like you know stuff.
Yeah I make a point to avoid backwater 3rd world countries like the USA
Where do you live?
You could do your own homework and make an educated guess, but you won't, so I guess I have to spoon feed you an answer of "Canada"
If the hospitals in Washington are routinely over capacity, then thats a Washington problem. People have the freedom here to seek treatment wherever they would like to.
And everyone has to pay, inside or outside the state. Noone gets out of medical debt just by crossing state lines.
Every hospital in the world has a capacity they can support. You must be saying “they need a bigger hospital!” Which I’m sure they are aware of, but building that and staffing that isn’t always feasible with the budget they are given.
And not everyone has to pay. The hospital there is a charity and provides care regardless of the ability for the patient to pay—which cuts into that budget for more staffing and buildings.
During Covid, Idaho pretty much threw their hands up and said “go to Spokane” where people were lining the halls on beds dying because they didn’t have enough respirators for that many people.
So, it’s a common opinion in Spokane that Idaho needs to fuck off and take care of their own.
Charity and providing care to those who present themselves are not the same thing. You might be right though that they don't bill some people, but that would work the same for citizens of both states.
Do I have it right that you blame Idahoans for coming to Washington hospitals which might mean more Washingtonians die?
Does it really matter what state the person is from who dies?
And what, die? I think keeping people alive and preventing unnecessary deaths should be the priority first and foremost. Idaho should be made to improve their healthcare infrastructure, and then we can force them to stay in their state.
But as of right now, the idea of turning someone down at the hospital because their ID says a different state does not sit well with me.
Idaho needs to help Idahoans, and not push them onto another state.
Make Idaho great again!
Make Idaho reasonably sustainable for the first time!! ;)
So... Nobody should work across state lines... In the "United" states... Doesn't sound very United.
Work? Not what I said, but feel free to create your own narrative while I ignore you.
If people work across state lines, or travel at all, they need hospital services. You didn't say it, but a moment of thought would have revealed the implications.
If they are in the state and have an emergency, fine. But anything else they really need to burden their own tax payers.
Ok so why not just federalize health and bypass this me me meeeeee histrionic problem?
I’m fine with that as long as states don’t get to make laws that affect federal hospitals thereby pushing people to other states to create an unneeded burden on the out of state hospital.
Just... Pay for capacity in your population centers in some equitable way.
OH, OH!!! you could run for healthcare as a public service instead of a profit center 🤡
I don’t think you know what a hospital looks like when it is over capacity 🤡 but keep on talking like you know stuff.
Yeah I make a point to avoid backwater 3rd world countries like the USA
Where do you live?
You could do your own homework and make an educated guess, but you won't, so I guess I have to spoon feed you an answer of "Canada"
If the hospitals in Washington are routinely over capacity, then thats a Washington problem. People have the freedom here to seek treatment wherever they would like to.
And everyone has to pay, inside or outside the state. Noone gets out of medical debt just by crossing state lines.
Every hospital in the world has a capacity they can support. You must be saying “they need a bigger hospital!” Which I’m sure they are aware of, but building that and staffing that isn’t always feasible with the budget they are given.
And not everyone has to pay. The hospital there is a charity and provides care regardless of the ability for the patient to pay—which cuts into that budget for more staffing and buildings.
During Covid, Idaho pretty much threw their hands up and said “go to Spokane” where people were lining the halls on beds dying because they didn’t have enough respirators for that many people.
So, it’s a common opinion in Spokane that Idaho needs to fuck off and take care of their own.
Charity and providing care to those who present themselves are not the same thing. You might be right though that they don't bill some people, but that would work the same for citizens of both states.
Do I have it right that you blame Idahoans for coming to Washington hospitals which might mean more Washingtonians die?
Does it really matter what state the person is from who dies?