> An acquaintance of ours just paid several thousand dollars for his
> 14th horse. He just recently complained that he can't afford to buy
> health insurance for his family. JD, maybe you can explain to...

> An acquaintance of ours just paid several thousand dollars for his
> 14th horse. He just recently complained that he can't afford to buy
> health insurance for his family. JD, maybe you can explain to me what
> it is about horses that puts them ahead of a family.  I'm NOT saying
> you do, but this guy does. My wife suggested that he sell one of them
> and buy health insurance, He looked at her as if she had told him to
> eat them.
>
> On another health insurance issue, a local Catholic hospital, St.
> Joseph's tried to ship a legal immigrant from Honduras back to her
> home country because she fell into a coma while giving birth and does
> not have health insurance. The government can't deport her because she
> is here legally, but the hospital determined they could because she
> could not pay for treatment. Her family claims being sent to a
> Honduras hospital would be a certain death sentence and obtained an
> injunction to give them time to come up with some way to pay. There
> will be a hearing shortly to determine if the injunction should be
> permanent.
> ...

>
> Has a guardian been appoint for her?
>
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> I feel really bad for her and for her family.  Stuff like rights to
> health care should be easy to negotiate in a democracy.  I don't think
> any of us really live in democracies.
>
> Annie in BC

>On May 12, 2:23 am, GeoAnnie gmail.com> wrote:
>

>>
>> I feel really bad for her and for her family.  Stuff like rights to
>> health care should be easy to negotiate in a democracy.  I don't think
>> any of us really live in democracies.
>>
>> Annie in BC

>
>We don't. We are much too large for democracies to work. We live in
>democratic republics in which we democratically elect representatives
>but they make all the other decisions. That is why the lobbyists have
>so much influence. With our population closing on China or India of
>the 1950s, there is little hope for a better system.
>
>Bob G

> On May 11, 11:32

> "
>

>> Bob G

>
> Sounds to me like the hospital was running a bluff and someone called it.  
> Hospitals can't transfer a patient without the consent of the patient or
> their guardian.
>
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> Saint Séimí mac Liam
> Carriagemaker to the  court of Queen Maeve
> Prophet of The Great Tagger
> Canonized December '99-

> Bob G. wrote:

>> On May 11, 11:32 pm, "Séimí mac Liam" comcast.nospam.net>
>> wrote:

>

>>>Has a guardian been appoint for her?

>

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>> The news report did not say. the family got the injunction. It seems
>> unlikely any judge would let the hospital transfer her without first
>> making sure there was at least a lawyer to represent her interests.
>> This was in Sunday's paper and news reports are sometimes less than
>> complete. It seems that the hospital informed the family that they ...