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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Brumar89 who wrote (4617)	2/19/2008 12:55:36 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 42652

I'm thinking some non-emergency cases would have to be turned away at the door to keep them out or ER's. Right now ERs can't legally turn anyone away. If we were to institute universal insurance, hopefully that would change and non-emergencies could be referred elsewhere. Overnight non-trauma emergencies would still go to the ER if there weren't 24 hour urgent care facilities available but, during the day, the ER could reasonably turn them away or triage them down to a service level that would discourage them. Insurance requires copays - an uninsured who goes to an ER and doesn't pay, doesn't pay anything. Hopefully any new system would regularize that. Sorry about your accident...

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