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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Peter Dierks who wrote (904)5/23/2005 11:11:30 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 42652
 
Peter, for years the insured, uninsured, and underinsured have regarded ERs as though they were walk-in clinics. ERs, particularly Level I and II trauma centers, are frightfully expensive operations and only rarely pay for themselves. Usually, they account for huge losses on hospital balance sheets. - Holly