Although the below post has nothing whatsoever to do with URS, I still found it interesting and worthy of posting...the fellow claims to be a Doctor:

" I am a doctor. what people don't understand is that when you bring a person into the american system, it is not a volkswagen... it is a rolls... You have to, as a doctor, offer the same level of care to anyone, as long as the insurance company covers the treatment. If it doesn't, it is often up to the doctor (and patient) to "appeal". If you fal the patient, then you are liable for malpractice. What group of people are most likely to sue? You got it - poor people.
For some reason, americans have turned "want" to "need" to "deserve" to "right". Healthcare is no more a right than food. Healthcare takes peoples' time and money and effort. An MRI is NOT merely flicking a switch. The costs for all of the poor lifestyle choices of these people are then to be borne by those again with more money, as thought the poor "deserve", yes, have the "right" to other peoples' money just because they were born here. This is the attitude that is killing america and the entrepreneurial spirit. Getting something for nothing never produced winners, only losers and more and more of them until the system crashes under its own weight of uselessness. We will ALL die, and in the process many of us in uncomfortable situations. Th AMerican demand of a "RIGHT" to incredibly expensive and futile treatment programs especially in the last two years of life is what is bankrupting this country. We all need to learn to die with less expense - we need to acknowledge that we are not immortal and no amount of money can make it so. We have taken the concept of "the needs of the many outweight then wants of the few" and changed it to "the wants of the few outweight the needs of the many". "Healthcare" in America is not sticking a wooden blade on your tongue.. it is VERY expensive. HOW and WHERE did anyone get the impression that they had a RIGHT to the most expensive medical care in the world? - Through politicians that have learned that if they give the poor (lazy, stupid, druggies, fatties, ignorant, demanding) all they "want" and have a "right" to, they will get the votes of these losers. Unfortunately the sheer number (staggering) of these losers now is enough to get the politicians these votes to get/keep them in office. So, we have a system of diminishing returns - more money for losers who will only squander it. "