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But the uninsured use them as their primary doctor. So you get a lot of crowding and folks with conditions that have gotten out of control, but could have been easily cured if caught earlier.

I recently dealt with a case where a young woman had no health insurance (but was honest enough not to attempt to defraud the system by using the emergency room under a false name). She caught pneumonia and didn't even know it. She thought she had a bad cold. She took over the counter cold medicine, which did nothing but hide some of her symptoms and aggravate her condition. She's dead now. Her young children will be a burden on the state for the next 15 years.

That's sad, but not as scary as stuff like Hep B through Z going untreated. A friend of mine recently got a letter in the mail stating that one of the food service employees who served him at an event had Hep B (I think it was B) and he should get checked out.

All she needed to do was to go to urgent care. I don't care if the bill was $500. If your car broke down, wouldn't you go get the freaking thing fixed...beg, borrow or steal to have your vehicle back? it's too bad people don't feel their bodies are as important as their damn cars.

"I recently dealt with a case where a young woman had no health insurance (but was honest enough not to attempt to defraud the system by using the emergency room under a false name). She caught pneumonia and didn't even know it. She thought she had a bad cold. She caught pneumonia and didn't even know it. She thought she had a bad cold. She took over the counter cold medicine, which did nothing but hide some of her symptoms and aggravate her condition. She's dead now. Her young children will be a burden on the state for the next 15 years."

It's not defrauding the system to use the emergency room. She had pneumonia. In case you don't know, pneumonia is painful and you know your going to die if you don't get the antibiotics. All it takes is the antibiotics to obtain a cure. The cost should be less than a $100, but it's not.

She can't pay cash to docs. That's not allowed. Docs that take medicare patients can't take cash, by fed rules. A simple case like this can be handled cheap, but no, too many rules, overhead procedures and costs.

All musclehead's scheme is going to do is take more money from folks that are already paying for this system in the first place and direct a significantly larger percentage of money to the healthcare jobs industry. Then after that they'll go nuts with health issue rules and justify them with "were paying for your bad whatever".

Don't the kids have a father to take care of them, or did she just not bother with making sure there was a dad around for the kids?

Most young adults don't die from pneumonia, even without antibiotics. Obviously, her immune system was compromised by some other cause. Did she have AIDS?