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Here is the thing, poor people use the local emergency room for health care. That cost is either picked up by the hospital or more often then not buy local, state and federal government. Using the emergency room the is the most expense health care option by far. So Trump is actually making a proposal that would in fact save money, Cruz is not.

Another thing about emergency room care is that all the emergency room is required by law to do is to stabilize you. Once you are stable they send you home and recommend that you go see a doctor. Poor folks can not afford to see a doctor so they get send home to die. Which is why I said "Cruzs' plan is to let people die in the streets".

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Here is the thing, poor people use the local emergency room for health care. That cost is either picked up by the hospital or more often then not buy local, state and federal government. Using the emergency room the is the most expense health care option by far. So Trump is actually making a proposal that would in fact save money, Cruz is not.

This is exactly the same thing leftists were saying in support of Obamacare -- that providing health insurance to poor people would actually save us money. Gee, if that was the case, then why did Obamacare have to raise nearly $1T in tax revenue? Shouldn't it have paid for itself?

And second, it's not true. Studies were done on this in Massachusetts after RomneyCare passed, and they found that the expected savings from people supposedly avoiding emergency rooms didn't exist.

Another thing about emergency room care is that all the emergency room is required by law to do is to stabilize you. Once you are stable they send you home and recommend that you go see a doctor.

Wow, you've not only managed to parrot the left-wing justification for ObamaCare, but you've also managed to maintain the exact same logical inconsistencies. Impressive.

In case you missed it you, your first paragraph claimed that Trump's plan would save money because it would reduce emergency room visits. But in your second paragraph, you conceded that what gets offered in emergency rooms is very limited. Really? If so, then why didn't you recognize that providing far more care would be more expensive? Why raise the disingenuous argument that it would somehow save money to provide a lot more care?

Poor folks can not afford to see a doctor so they get send home to die. Which is why I said "Cruzs' plan is to let people die in the streets".

I think you made a wrong turn somewhere. Democratic Underground is two doors down, on the left (of course).