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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (240704)	12/29/2013 11:50:00 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Respond to of 541108

In the sense that the emergency room is how the uninsured got their "health care". In a semantic sense you are right, but the subsidization part was still incorporated into the insurance premiums for this service.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (240704)	12/29/2013 1:52:13 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 541108

I get so tired of hearing the Republican mantra, "You can always go to the emergency room" - even Mitt Romney made this assertion in the last election! It's just another way of saying, "Shut up, quit making me feel bad, go slink off and die". Do these people have brains at all? Take me. I need insulin twice every day, or I get sick and am at risk for blindness, amputation, heart attack, stroke and many other possible effects of way, way too high blood sugar. Am I supposed to go to the emergency room twice a day for a shot? I'll be billed emergency room prices for the visit. If I have any assets at all, the hospital will sell the debt to a collector, who will come after me, up to and including lawsuits. That's just me, and my particular "pre-existing condition", of which there are hundreds that aren't immediately life-threatening, only because of constant, life-long treatment. Millions of people are in this boat. Are ALL these people supposed to go the the emergency room for treatment?