We couldn't pass up the opportunity to spotlight a few more of the excellent, thoughtful responses from Healthcare United supporters to the article on Huffington Post (see previous post). Many of the responses came from nurses with decades of experience. Check these out:

"I am a nurse of 25 years with 20 plus years being in the Emergency Department. Let me tell you from experience that in no way is coming to the Emergency Department going to count as health care. Yes, we see everyone who comes to see us and yes, we have a large number of indigent patients. The problem is that there is never any health care given to these people before they become so critically ill and have to be admitted to the hospital. When they are discharged who do they see afterwards for follow up care? How do they get the medicine they need? By just changing numbers and terminology to facts given because you don't like what they say, isn't going to change the fact that a very large number of people do not have insurance or medical care..." - oldnurse

"As an RN with 25 years of experience, and as the spouse of a cancer patient who was told [to] "Come back to us when you have insurance and we will treat you." I have a great deal of problem with the idea that there are no uninsured. ...I also know people are dying unnecessarily due to inability to pay for good medical care. This situation is a national disgrace and must be remedied, and not by sticking our heads in the sand and denying that there is a problem."- Mrinur

"The reason so many hospitals have had to close over the past decade is because the emergency rooms were overwhelmed by uninsured citizens with ailments that could have been prevented or significantly mitigated if the individual had had insurance and been able to see a physician earlier- and outside the treatment of last resort. I've worked in the Emergency Room and nothing comes closer to disaster medicine than a waiting room packed to the gills with folks in various states of injury and pain. "Everybody's covered"? How stupid. It takes money to pay the staff, obtain and maintain equipment and provide medication. Hospitals should not have to go begging for the fraction of cost they will get for uninsured patients... " -babette40

This nurse at a children's hospital had some particularly strong words for Goodman:

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