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3 Responses to “Anarcho-Tyranny in Action: Carter Strange’s Parents Have no Insurance, get $88,000 Medical Bill for Actions of 8 Black Attackers”
So, let us pause in this torrent of “black people are out to kill us all” vituperation to ask two questions:
Why does it cost $88K for a trip to the emergency room?
With regard to the hospital, how does this instance functionally differ from that of an uninsured black person (or Hispanic, or Muslim, or fill-in-the-currently-despised-group-blank) who gets t-boned at an intersection and also takes a trip to the emergency room for major patching-up? Does the latter not have the same deliterious effect on the hospital’s finances as the former?
(Please leave out motivation, here; I’m discussing the cost of medical care and the effects of said care on providers, not the actual Strange incident, which was heinous.)
Would you feel better if the attackers cost Mr. Strange $800? $8?
Point is that he shouldn’t have had to go to the hospital at all. Getting “t-boned” at an intersection is usually an accident and not a premeditated criminal act. Not to mention that most states require car owners to have insurance, though honestly that’s still not the point.
Crime has huge impacts and an unwillingness to deal with the real sources of crime burdens the victims and their families.
You miss my point–again. (It happens so often I’m beginning to wonder if it’s not deliberate…)
The intent of the perpetrators is irrlevant to the fact that, t-boned or attacked on the street, all such events are “accidents” FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF THE INJURED PERSON. Nobody goes out of their way either to provoke a flash mob or turn in front of oncoming traffic.
I only ask because the price tag and Strange’s lack of insurance feature so prominently in both the headlines and leading paragraphs, as if the bare fact of his event are not enough in themselves to cause outrage and indignation. Smacks of “waving the bloody shirt” to me–what we used to call in the old days “rabble-rousing”. After all, it wasn’t the thugs who tendered the bill–though the fact that they caused it to be tendered is not in dispute.
I personally have no problem with reasonable restrictions (and curfews fall into that category) on the Right To Assemble mentioned in the Constitution. (On the other hand, I also have no problem with reasonable restrictions on the Right To Bear Arms…but others do.)
In any case, the message is clear–White People, arm yourselves against the Creeping Dark Hordes coming to rape your women, enslave your children, and destroy your White European Heritage. (Probably rob you of your Precious Bodily Fluids, too–oh, wait: that’s women, not blacks. Sorry. Got mixed up for a moment.)
And of course don’t forget to lay all of these ills squarely at the feet of President Obama, as Tim implies. After all, it’s no more than one can expect from a nation that elects a Muslim, half-breed, foreigner?
July 13th, 2011 at 09:50
So, let us pause in this torrent of “black people are out to kill us all” vituperation to ask two questions:
Why does it cost $88K for a trip to the emergency room?
With regard to the hospital, how does this instance functionally differ from that of an uninsured black person (or Hispanic, or Muslim, or fill-in-the-currently-despised-group-blank) who gets t-boned at an intersection and also takes a trip to the emergency room for major patching-up? Does the latter not have the same deliterious effect on the hospital’s finances as the former?
(Please leave out motivation, here; I’m discussing the cost of medical care and the effects of said care on providers, not the actual Strange incident, which was heinous.)
July 13th, 2011 at 11:29
Would you feel better if the attackers cost Mr. Strange $800? $8?
Point is that he shouldn’t have had to go to the hospital at all. Getting “t-boned” at an intersection is usually an accident and not a premeditated criminal act. Not to mention that most states require car owners to have insurance, though honestly that’s still not the point.
Crime has huge impacts and an unwillingness to deal with the real sources of crime burdens the victims and their families.
July 13th, 2011 at 14:10
You miss my point–again. (It happens so often I’m beginning to wonder if it’s not deliberate…)
The intent of the perpetrators is irrlevant to the fact that, t-boned or attacked on the street, all such events are “accidents” FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF THE INJURED PERSON. Nobody goes out of their way either to provoke a flash mob or turn in front of oncoming traffic.
I only ask because the price tag and Strange’s lack of insurance feature so prominently in both the headlines and leading paragraphs, as if the bare fact of his event are not enough in themselves to cause outrage and indignation. Smacks of “waving the bloody shirt” to me–what we used to call in the old days “rabble-rousing”. After all, it wasn’t the thugs who tendered the bill–though the fact that they caused it to be tendered is not in dispute.
I personally have no problem with reasonable restrictions (and curfews fall into that category) on the Right To Assemble mentioned in the Constitution. (On the other hand, I also have no problem with reasonable restrictions on the Right To Bear Arms…but others do.)
In any case, the message is clear–White People, arm yourselves against the Creeping Dark Hordes coming to rape your women, enslave your children, and destroy your White European Heritage. (Probably rob you of your Precious Bodily Fluids, too–oh, wait: that’s women, not blacks. Sorry. Got mixed up for a moment.)
And of course don’t forget to lay all of these ills squarely at the feet of President Obama, as Tim implies. After all, it’s no more than one can expect from a nation that elects a Muslim, half-breed, foreigner?