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

To: Alighieri who wrote (14056)	3/7/2010 10:00:08 AM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

They have crisis intervention (i would not call it care) at best... I really disagree with the assertion that they don't have access. That's hyperbole. There may be a few providers who will turn you away if you don't have insurance but I don't believe there are many. Nowadays there may be more who don't accept insurance. I've encountered the latter. Now, when I call a new provider to make an appt, I'm always asked what insurance I have. I've never asked one what the response would be if I said "none." But, since they ask me to bring a picture ID and my insurance card, I assume they would ask someone without insurance to bring a credit card, maybe a checkbook, or cash. The people effectively without access are those who can't get insurance because they have serious, chronic illnesses and who have exhausted their reserves. Something needs to be done about that. But that's a relatively small number. The rest of the uninsured have access. Even they have access for smallish, unrelated medical needs and for emergencies. It's simply incorrect to say that those without insurance don't have access. A financial strain, perhaps, but not lack of access. In the days before civil rights, there were people without access. Not now.