take, now the nurse s take. deborah, your thoughts on this. the nurses over the entire country have been concerned about this health insurance reform. and it s not obama care or the affordable care act that s limiting the choices. let s be clear, these are the insurance companies that were left in charge of health care and wrote health care reform. they re the ones limiting care and creating this bureaucracy to deny our patients care. okay. but with all due respect, today, what people really care about is care being denied. are their children not going to be able to get because the report is these major hospitals because of a law are not going they re not included. not in the network anymore. well, and that s because the insurance companies are the ones that are actually deciding whether they re going to offer their services on the health care and what you re saying they re not the ones the report said they re deciding not to because they
take, now the nurse s take. deborah, your thoughts on this. the nurses over the entire country have been concerned about this health insurance reform. and it s not obama care or the affordable care act that s limiting the choices. let s be clear, these are the insurance companies that were left in charge of health care and wrote health care reform. they re the ones limiting care and creating this bureaucracy to deny our patients care. okay. but with all due respect, today, what people really care about is care being denied. are their children not going to be able to get because the report is these major hospitals because of a law are not going they re not included. not in the network anymore. well, and that s because the insurance companies are the ones that are actually deciding whether they re going to offer their services on the health care and what you re saying they re not the ones the report said they re deciding not to because they
life-threatening problems that cannot be cared for here. and the question is what happens to the patients? how do they get transferred and who pays for that as well? we know that over the last couple of weeks the uss comfort is an option, but the demand is outpacing the care, so some patients are sent back to the united states. this is interesting what i am about to describe is the first time it has been done. it is called the national disaster medical system, undms, and this is in the past used domestically, but it is when a patient can come to the united states domestically and get care from a variety of hospitals around the country, and the hospitals will be reimbursed 100% of what medicare pays, so they have an incentive to give the patients care, and that is what happened. we told you, wolf, about a man who went through the process to