Interesting.
Isn’t one of the bigger problems people who aren’t insured and then use the emergency room for their personal doctor?
I’ve thought there should be a national major medical pool for those who can’t get other insurance. But still, as long as any uninsured person can walk into the emergency room we’ve still got a big problem. Lots of people would rather have the fancy cell phone etc before they’d pay a monthly bill for health insurance because there don’t seem to be much in the way of consequences.
Excellent points! I’ll re do this thing. As I said, it was just a quick bunch of thoughts that popped into my pea brain.
Once health care is “free” (people are insulated from the costs of their care), then even more people will go to ER’s than before. It’s happened in Massachusetts, and I’ve seen it in military ER’s. We need to allow ER’s to triage people and then turn them away if it’s something that can wait (non-emergent care).