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To: Road Walker who wrote (196108)	7/28/2004 11:07:19 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) of 1576160

"There isn't an ER in the country who turn away a person needing immediate medical help." Actually, he has a point. Usually what happens is they stabilize and transport. In Houston, you often read about someone who dies during transport to Ben Taub. Apparently "stabilize" is a rather loosely defined word... The two of you are talking past each other. David is basically assuming that anyone who doesn't have health insurance is a candidate for welfare. You are talking about the ones who make too much to qualify for Medicaid, yet don't have jobs that provide health insurance. But the pool is even larger than that. Unless you have a good health insurance plan, it is quite easy to have very large, and uncovered, medical bills. We got saddled with about $6000 of bills when our oldest starting talking suicide and got involuntarily committed. If we had no insurance, the county would have paid. Since we had insurance... Given the fact both my wife and I were full time students at the time, that $6k hurt a lot.

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