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RE: Healthcare

June 30, 2012 at 7:00 pm

(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.

exactly right cd. the abuse is widespread and organized. folks take themselves and all 3 kids into the er because they got poison ivy, a stuffy nose, a toothache, etc. like why bother waiting for a doctor or dentist appt when neither way they will have to pay, so may as well go with the quickest route. smfh.

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Healthcare - by Metonymie - June 29, 2012 at 2:59 pm

RE: Healthcare - by frankiej - June 29, 2012 at 3:04 pm

RE: Healthcare - by Minimalist - June 29, 2012 at 3:05 pm

RE: Healthcare - by Napoléon - June 29, 2012 at 3:19 pm

RE: Healthcare - by Tiberius - July 2, 2012 at 9:57 am

RE: Healthcare - by Minimalist - June 29, 2012 at 3:26 pm

RE: Healthcare - by Anomalocaris - June 29, 2012 at 3:36 pm

RE: Healthcare - by JohnDG - June 29, 2012 at 5:00 pm

RE: Healthcare - by Anomalocaris - July 2, 2012 at 11:19 am

RE: Healthcare - by jackman - June 29, 2012 at 5:06 pm

RE: Healthcare - by 5thHorseman - June 29, 2012 at 6:28 pm

RE: Healthcare - by goddamnit - June 29, 2012 at 6:41 pm

RE: Healthcare - by cratehorus - July 2, 2012 at 7:59 pm

RE: Healthcare - by Minimalist - June 29, 2012 at 7:15 pm

RE: Healthcare - by goddamnit - June 29, 2012 at 8:02 pm

RE: Healthcare - by Minimalist - June 29, 2012 at 8:29 pm

RE: Healthcare - by goddamnit - June 30, 2012 at 6:23 pm

RE: Healthcare - by Erinome - June 30, 2012 at 3:42 am

RE: Healthcare - by JohnDG - June 30, 2012 at 5:31 am

RE: Healthcare - by Jaysyn - June 30, 2012 at 2:50 pm

RE: Healthcare - by Metonymie - June 30, 2012 at 3:15 pm

RE: Healthcare - by Whateverist - July 1, 2012 at 10:30 am

RE: Healthcare - by Erinome - June 30, 2012 at 6:52 am

RE: Healthcare - by Gambit - June 30, 2012 at 7:40 am

RE: Healthcare - by Gambit - June 30, 2012 at 5:48 pm

RE: Healthcare - by Zarathustra - June 30, 2012 at 6:05 pm

RE: Healthcare - by jackman - June 30, 2012 at 6:07 pm

RE: Healthcare - by Jackalope - June 30, 2012 at 6:26 pm

RE: Healthcare - by jackman - June 30, 2012 at 7:00 pm

RE: Healthcare - by Brian37 - June 30, 2012 at 8:01 pm

RE: Healthcare - by Brian37 - June 30, 2012 at 6:33 pm

RE: Healthcare - by goddamnit - June 30, 2012 at 9:22 pm

RE: Healthcare - by Jackalope - June 30, 2012 at 9:40 pm

RE: Healthcare - by Justtristo - June 30, 2012 at 7:54 pm

RE: Healthcare - by Angrboda - June 30, 2012 at 7:54 pm

RE: Healthcare - by Annik - June 30, 2012 at 9:24 pm

RE: Healthcare - by Jquik26 - July 1, 2012 at 1:53 am

RE: Healthcare - by jackman - July 1, 2012 at 11:18 am

RE: Healthcare - by Metonymie - July 1, 2012 at 11:24 am

RE: Healthcare - by frankiej - July 2, 2012 at 10:00 am

RE: Healthcare - by KichigaiNeko - July 2, 2012 at 9:39 am

RE: Healthcare - by kılıç_mehmet - July 3, 2012 at 8:45 am

RE: Healthcare - by jackman - July 3, 2012 at 8:32 pm

RE: Healthcare - by cratehorus - July 7, 2012 at 12:04 pm

RE: Healthcare - by Polaris - July 11, 2012 at 11:37 pm

RE: Healthcare - by Gambit - July 11, 2012 at 11:43 pm

RE: Healthcare - by jackman - July 12, 2012 at 12:10 pm

RE: Healthcare - by Autumnlicious - July 12, 2012 at 1:02 am

RE: Healthcare - by Polaris - July 12, 2012 at 2:16 am

RE: Healthcare - by Deicide73 - July 12, 2012 at 8:00 am

RE: Healthcare - by padraic - July 12, 2012 at 9:28 am

RE: Healthcare - by Autumnlicious - July 12, 2012 at 1:40 pm

RE: Healthcare - by Polaris - July 12, 2012 at 9:57 pm

RE: Healthcare - by jackman - July 13, 2012 at 9:32 am

RE: Healthcare - by Polaris - July 13, 2012 at 10:02 am

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