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| 3rd_Best_Master 04/11/17 10:04:53 PM #29: | monkmith posted... why is there a general assumption that people without health care in this country don't go to the ER? the wait time isn't going to go up with universal health care, it has the potential to go down because those without insurance wouldn't be forced to hang out in the ER for hours for "free" service when they could instead go to a general practice doctor and get preventive health care. This. The whole "wait time" argument against UH always seems to ignore how healthcare in America is even approached. Many Americans already find that going to the doctor is either prohibitively expensive or time consuming so they don't schedule doctor's appointments and they don't partake in preventative healthcare. Instead, many of those people wait and wait and wait until a critical emergency occurs and they go wait in emergency rooms. Emergency rooms practice triage and they're already subject to wait times. Why should we not have UH for fear of wait times when wait times are how most people go to the doctor already? The only difference with UH is that they'll actually be able to afford to go and won't suffer through a medical bankruptcy due to a cough. If both systems will result in wait times then why not go for the option that most people can actually afford to use? --- Posted with GameRaven 3.2 ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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