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UnsteadyOwl posted...

Yeah, but I don't totally agree. What ends up happening a lot of the time if a poor person can't see a doctor is they eventually end up in the emergency room which costs more than several visits to a primary care physician. And if they can't pay, the hospital has to make that up somewhere so the rest of us end up paying for it indirectly in higher healthcare costs.

True, but you're not able to go to the ER for things like chemo or dialysis or anything, are you? That's outpatient stuff.

The ER will get you to a point where they can street you and put a referral to a specialist you'll never be able to afford in your hands, and the only other treatment you get is when you go back to the ER when you die from the thing for-profit health care kept you from treating when it was treatable.

Normal people aren't using the ER as a clinic and running up bills on the taxpayer dime because they know they're on the hook for it first. And medical billing and collections will find you.