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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (142274)	8/10/2010 10:59:29 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) of 541915

>>People have health care - they had it before as every American gets help when they show up at a hospital. What I object to is that our health care is double the rest of the world and in many cases other countries is better than ours. That will bankrupt America in a worldwide trade.<< I find it difficult to believe that anyone would advance that argument after the number of times it has been shot down. Let me say this clearly. Having access to emergency healthcare is not equivalent to having access to healthcare. Say you're a woman who has just discovered a lump in her breast. You have no insurance. Where do you go to have it checked out? The emergency room? I don't think so. It turns out that most healthcare can't be provided through emergency clinics, or if it can be, not efficiently. One of the reasons we pay so much for health services here is that hospitals are burdened by having to pay for the treatment of people who show up in emergency rooms because they have no insurance, and they have no other way of getting medical help. If those people had access to the type of healthcare you and I take for granted, they wouldn't end up in the ER.

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