(June 30, 2012 at 6:26 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(June 30, 2012 at 6:07 pm)jackman Wrote: all know is emergency rooms won't refuse you, if you have no insurance, so plenty of people will fill the rooms for even common colds and occupy resources that are needed for real emergencies.
This represents one of the biggest epic fails in healthcare delivery in the USA. Uninsured people have to use the most expensive form of care available, and if they can't pay the bill, it's written off and subsidized by those that can.
So to those that suggest that we shouldn't subsidize the healthcare of the uninsured: We already do, and we're paying far, far more than would be necessary if the uninsured had the same access as the insured.
There was a time when I opposed universal subsidized healthcare - for reasons which I later determined to be irrational. I left that opinion in the dustbin after realizing that my position was irrational and examining it pragmatically.
I had some idiot on another website say that the poor already have medicade and cant be refused from the emergency room. Who the fuck does he think pays for that? All of us through taxes That is the part that idiot misses.
