Dear Madam…

You…you listen to country music? And to think I once respected you!

This is why our ER has the 14-gauge needles and the Foley catheters. It may not cost you in <>money<> to abuse the system, but if you show up with a chief complaint of “I’m drunk, babysit me” or “I barfed once, am I dying?”, there are ways of making you pay.I think my all-time “favorite” chief complaint was a (weirdly baby-talking) woman who called us the day after her sister had been transported by medics for a fairly serious breathing problem. It was about 3 AM. “I have weg cwamps,” she said, flashing her Medicaid card. “Vewy bad weg cwamps. They’we an <>eweven<>.”

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I used to be a kindergarten teacher and had a parent curse me out for not calling her to tell her that her daughter had skinned her knee so that she could’ve come to pick her child up and take her to the doctor. <>We had been on a field trip to the zoo which she carefully dressed her daughter in a dress, tights, and shoes with heels (yes, she was a five year old AT THE ZOO). Her daughter had disobeyed my directions to finish her lunch. She decided to get up and run around instead when the accident happened. It did break the skin but the little one came back to school and not only went to P. E. with the class but participated as well. Her mom decided to take her to the emergency room because her daughter could “hardly walk.” They then waited hours to be seen and I would’ve paid money to see the look on the nurse’s face when she had to slap a new bandaid on it and send them on their merry way. <>I bet you she would’ve called for an ambulance had she been at the zoo with us.

I bet you she would’ve called for an ambulance had she been at the zoo with us.

I’m officially in love. Please don’t tell my husband!

I’m officially in love. Please don’t tell my husband!

mark of the beast for a medicaid card? for real? we have medicaid for our kids and have needed an ambulance approx 10 times in our daughter’s three years of life (severe respiratory distress every time. sometimes on a vent, sometimes off). my husband and i have private insurance but the kids are eligible for medicaid because the cost of insuring our whole family on the private insurance is astronomical. the government knows they could be on private insurance but realizes we can’t afford it. not only can we not afford it, my daughter has pre-existing conditions that would probably keep her from being insured with a private company. we do not abuse our medicaid and don’t call an ambulance for b.s. reasons. i know there are many that do but please don’t assume everyone with a medicaid card has the “mark of the beast”. we are educated, responsible parents who have medicaid because it is what is best for our children.

mark of the beast for a medicaid card? for real? we have medicaid for our kids and have needed an ambulance approx 10 times in our daughter’s three years of life (severe respiratory distress every time. sometimes on a vent, sometimes off). my husband and i have private insurance but the kids are eligible for medicaid because the cost of insuring our whole family on the private insurance is astronomical. the government knows they could be on private insurance but realizes we can’t afford it. not only can we not afford it, my daughter has pre-existing conditions that would probably keep her from being insured with a private company. we do not abuse our medicaid and don’t call an ambulance for b.s. reasons. i know there are many that do but please don’t assume everyone with a medicaid card has the “mark of the beast”. we are educated, responsible parents who have medicaid because it is what is best for our children.

<>Psssssst…<>Hey Anonymous? Read the post again. Carefully.Then get your sense of humor checked.

Hey Anonymous? Read the post again. Carefully.Then get your sense of humor checked.