Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Scott Satko said:

Rod Kaufman said:

Showing patients without health insurance die:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-trauma-uninsured17-2009nov17,0,4308260.story
A whopping 80%.
I know, I know, it's just another political socialist piece of propaganda. Funny how they're all that way but what's the likes of Harvard, John Hopkins, Cambridge and others compared to your average conservative astromarter?...

I hope you don't rely upon the mainstream media to get all of your medical information. If one actually bothered to read the actual article that was published in the Archives of Surgery in October 2008, one would see that no cause-and-effect relationship between lack of insurance and mortality rates was actually established. For starters, the cohort of uninsured patients were more likely to sustain more traumatic injuries, esp. higher rates of penetrating trauma. So, it's not really surprising that these patients were more likely to die. Next time, read the original article rather than than just the distilled and spun version before you try to use it to make a point.

Scott Satko said:

Rod Kaufman said:
I see the local success stories impacting communities aren't reported on Fox news:
http://www.the-signal.com/news/article/20935/

I don't think anyone ever said that NONE of the stimulus money was being put to good use. In this particular example, it sounds as if the money may have been wisely spent (which still doesn't make up for the BILLIONS that have been wasted in other areas of the country). Still, at a cost to the taxpayers of approx. $50,000 per job saved in Castaic, CA, this won't keep these people employed forever. Do we need to spend another $800 billion next year so that these people will still have their jobs?