{"id":738,"date":"2008-09-05T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=738"},"modified":"2008-09-05T10:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T14:48:00","slug":"letter-health-care-fiction-letter-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=738","title":{"rendered":"Letter – Health Care Fiction – Letter – NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

Letter – Health Care Fiction – Letter – NYTimes.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Too well said not to cite in its entirety…<\/em><\/p>\n

“Re \u201cFeeling No Pain,\u201d by Paul Krugman (column, Aug. 29):
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Mr. Krugman rightly notes that emergency room care cannot substitute for health insurance since the cost will be billed directly to the patient.<\/p>\n

There is another reason emergency rooms cannot provide adequate health care. Emergency rooms are for emergencies. They can treat a patient in a diabetic coma, but they cannot provide continuing help in managing diabetes. They can treat a full-blown asthma attack, but they cannot provide the medications needed to manage asthma daily.<\/p>\n

They can treat a woman who has gone into early labor, but they cannot provide prenatal care.
Emergency rooms cannot offer any help for managing Parkinson\u2019s, Alzheimer\u2019s or cancer. On a more basic level, they cannot provide eyeglasses, hearing aids or dentures.<\/p>\n

Republican claims that no American is without access to health care because \u201cyou can just go to an emergency room\u201d are openly false as well as appallingly callous.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Vandiver
Walla Walla, Wash., Aug. 29, 2008″<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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