Egregious "Emergencies"

When I spotted this outrageous story, blood nearly shot from my eyes, as Glenn Beck would say.

"HOSP-ITALITY ABU$E
ILLNESS-FAKER BUMS TREAT ERS AS HOTELS - ON YOUR TAB. These bums are costing you a fortune. Ricky Alardo, a homeless alcoholic nicknamed Ricky Ricardo, swigs cheap vodka by day at his favorite corner in Washington Heights, then calls an ambulance to chauffeur him to the hospital for a free meal and a warm place to sleep, courtesy of taxpayers who fund his Medicaid benefits. For a chronic caller like Alardo -- who phones 911 four or five times a week -- the annual medical bill can be as high as $300,000. Over 13 years, the length of time he has been abusing the emergency room, he has cost the medical system an estimated $3.9 million."

And that's just one person! Multiply that by the millions of parasites in this country, and you can imagine the drain on necessary services -- and on taxpayer money! I have an idea: let the bleeding heart liberals pay the bills.