Career Politician Waxman To Retire

After cashing $4,300,000 worth of welfare checks Mr. Henry Waxman will retire next month from his position in Congress.  

So what was Waxman all about?

Last year NPR had a bizarre story on a few career politicians.  They report on the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act which:

requires hospitals that participate in Medicare or Medicaid to see and stabilize anyone who shows up in their emergency rooms, regardless of their insurance status. 

Ok, so what does Waxman have to say about EMTALA:

"Imagine what it would be like in this country if somebody was brought into an emergency room and because they didn't have insurance they were just turned away to bleed to death in the streets,"

Does Waxman think that before 1986 (when EMTALA was passed into legal fiction) doctors turned away patients and stood by watching them literally bleed out into the streets?  

So if an old lady was bleeding to death in the driveway of Waxman's Beverly Hills mansion and the year was 1985 would he do nothing to help her because there was no EMTALA signed into legislation in D.C.?  

Or is it more likely that he would call one of his doctor friends?  Maybe his synagogue or a local church offers medical care.  Perhaps there is a medical association in Beverly Hills that helps sick people without insurance.  It's probable that a doctor in the very hospital that he claims would reject the patient would actually offer her services free of charge.  

Who knows, but it's frightening to think that someone who holds medical professionals in such low regard had so much influence over medical legislation.  If one day he seeks professional medical care I hope he has more faith in doctors and nurses than his comments would indicate.        

P.S. Four decades living off the backs of taxpayers is not enough for the former Rep. from California.  The career politician will collect $85,000/year for life in welfare. 

Thank you congressional pension service!