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Originally Posted by eroswebmaster
While I agree with what you're saying for people without insurance in America with non-emergency ailments...the law is here in America that no emergency room can deny you service for non-payment or no insurance.
They must at the very least stabilize you, then send you onto a state / city funded hospital.
So a heart attack victim would get emergency care immediately.
The problem here in America is when it comes to preventative medicine.
If you have insurance they won't cover a lot of things that will keep you from getting serious illnesses in the future, and if you're without insurance, then you aren't seeing a physician regularly to catch something serious early on.
I recall one time walking into a doctor's office and it had a letter posted that Medicaid would no longer cover pap smears for women.
A simple pap smear may prevent tax payers from having to pay for treatment of cervical cancer later on in life.
Oh well it's not going to change any time soon. I'm a firm believer in capitalism, however when it means that companies no longer cure you, but only provide medicines to help you live with your illnesses, then I think we've crossed lines.
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The problem that I see is that you go into an emergency room as you say and they treat you but what about if you need bypass surgery afterwards. Would that be covered as it's not emergency issue.
Second even if they treat you in an emergency and you don't have insurance, you get home alive and well only to find a huge bill not knowing how you will pay it. That is the very real and very scary part.