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To: willcousa who wrote (136271)	5/29/2001 4:36:43 PM
From: GVTucker	Respond to of 186894

Slowly but surely hospitals are closing their trauma centers/ERs for the very reason you cite. In a free market health care system, the government would have to mandate that a hospital keep their ER open. Note that this is also the reason the most low income people use the ER as their 'insurance'. This is a horribly inefficient system for healthcare. The Oregon system is in the right direction, but I have seen primarily criticism. the liklihood of a similar allocation system catching on nationwide is minimal.