Medicaid Patients Aren't Entitled To Epidurals

[TalkingDog]

Because, you know... poor people. And poor people having teh secks.

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1999-05-06/news/9905050591_1_medicaid-patients-epidurals-medicare-patients

Nub: "Nobody willingly gets a hernia or cancer. There two young women willingly engaged in sex, and sex led to their pregnancies."

[tanyev]

1. Yeah, they can just pull up a bootstrap and bite down on it when it gets painful.

[TalkingDog]

2. That's more than they deserve.

also sarcasm.

[Shrike47]

3. I bet the author of the letter is a 'good Christian woman.'

[onenote]

4. The article on which this is based is 14 years old and doesn't say it is legal

for an anesthesiologist to refuse to give an epidural to a Medicaid patient. In fact, it suggests that its illegal.
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1999-04-12/news/9904120185_1_epidural-pain-medicaid

[treestar]

5. is this just some right winger's opinion, or something medicaid actually does?