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Where do you propose people who don't have insurance go for non-emergency healthcare?
Um... a regular doctor?
Will still be cheaper than an ER...
Insurance doesnt give you access to the doctor. It reduces the cost for the going to the doctor...
Edit: ITT a bunch of uneducated and misinformed people argue with and downvote me for describing the current American Healthcare System because they dont like the current American Healthcare System, so they feel entitled to just go "nuh uh, I'm poor, the rules don't apply to me. Imma just steal the most expensive healthcare."
Can't visit a regular doctor if you don't have one already, and you won't without insurance because they won't be taking patients that don't have insurance.
You can try those quick care places, but they tend to either require insurance or charge an arm and a leg just to be seen. They also tend to have limited hours.
The emergency room must see you for free at the point of service and will bill you later. That works for those that can't afford to pay up front for care or have trouble being seen during work hours.
Your first paragraph is patently false.
The rest is "I'm a criminal. Let me steal medical services."
You know where it is impossible to "steal medical services"? Any first world country with a single payer system.
Pretty shitty to blame people who cannot afford medical care because of our terrible system.
But you know where the people in this thread suggesting that poor people MUST abuse Emergency Rooms to steam medicine and services? America.
I agree, its a broken system. It should be universal single payer. It's not though.
Medical debt sucks. You know what sucks more? Exhausted overworked doctors and nurses constantly being stolen because some people fancy themselves above the system.
Why are prices so out of control? Why does one trip to the hospital, with insurance or not, bankrupt someone? Because shit sucking leeches are perpetuating this complete lie that the only way to find medical care if you are poor is to rip off an Emergency Room.
You would rather people not get medical care if they can't afford it than some companies lose some profits? The shit sucking leeches are the for profit insurers and their investors.
What a terrible person you are. Just fucking awful.