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

To: i-node who wrote (6378)	3/14/2009 12:32:50 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

But the realty is that without that patient flow into ERs, you're going to have ERs closing down all over the place. Not if the hospital owns both the ER and the clinic. It's the same patients getting the same services, just two different doors and, in some cases, two different price tags. Yes, their income could drop but maybe not if you staff the clinic with lower cost staff, which you could. And the coherence of the ER would improve as would its performance. There's a lot of waste in crowded waiting rooms and long queues.