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bellal-2009 says:
It's not sustainable. The whole thing needs reform and also education for the young to save for their retirement.
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bellal-2009 says:
dallison7, you keep repeating yourself on this issue. Everyone knows the emergency room situation.
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dallison7 says:
So many challenged people in this country simply cannot understand the concept of universal health care. It would be a tremendous improvement from our current system of waste. This country has approximately 47 million uninsured citizens. Those people do not have health insurance because they cannot afford it. When they get sick, flu or anything else, they go to the emergency room because law requires all emergency rooms to give them care without collecting fees if they cannot afford it. The cost of these fees is passed on to the rest of us in the form of taxes and higher medical costs. Emergency rooms at hospitals all across the country are jammed with these people. Wait times at the ER where my wife works is sometimes as much as 12 hours.

Further, the average cost of a visit to the emergency room is $1500, while the cost of a visit to a primary care provider is $75.

If we had a universal health care system everyone with non-emergency problems would be directed to primary care clinics as opposed to 47 million of them showing up at emergency rooms.

If this 47 million people only visit the doctor once every two years the savings would be $33 billion per year.
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bellal-2009 says:
Wait a minute they just said Medicare was going to bankrupt America. If that's true what's universal health care going to do.
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