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I agree with you, but that ripples outward. If I don't have to pay for emergency care, then why pay for insurance at all? I can just go hang out in the emergenc

I agree with you, but that ripples outward. If I don't have to pay for emergency care, then why pay for insurance at all? I can just go hang out in the emergency room and they will take care of me. I realize a large sum of people do that right now, but that just reinforces how broken our current system is. We have to fix healthcare in total before we can say thats a done deal, but it is the right direction.

angersock 13y ago
Honestly, I think that the final answer really ought to be state-run hospitals that provide intensive and emergency care for free, and state-run doctor practices that serve as GPs and whatnot for communities. Private practices can exist, but they get to play in the market normally and price accordingly. The problem is the metric crapton of Americans who will grind the system down as they fall prey to the beetus and obesity, and the number of wrongheaded bozos who think that letting the .gov handle this is somehow automagically a bad idea.