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Originally Posted by LLN
I guess folks may suffer, but several trips to the ER in the last 12 months, (two kidney stones, severe infection, etc) all that happened between midnight and 3:00am on Saturday morning, have revealed a very large and consistent population of low lifes in the ER seeking treatment for God knows what. I am just not sure the hospital is gonna turn gay folks away when they readily take many others with no, zero, zip insurance.
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This is not really relevant to the question here, which is "Who should be allowed on employees' insurance policies?" And it's not "gay folks being turned away" that's an issue; I can't recall any ER ever asking someone's orientation before seeing them.
I work in the health care (administration) industry and Emergency Rooms cannot tunr anyone away, which is exactly why ER usage is ridiculously high by the uninsured. Anyone dealing in healthcare costs wants to try to find ways and policies that bring DOWN ER usage, but if people arean't insured, that's pretty much their only option.
Your logic doesn't really make sense, saying "I see uninsured people in the ER, therefore health insurance is obviously not necessary." On the contrary, if more people had insurance and could actually go to regular doctors, there would be less ER usage and lower costs, in general. A $10 copay seeing your primary care doc for a cold is much cheaper (for taxpayers and for hospitals, whose unrecouped costs spill over to all of us eventually) than an ER visit every single time they have the sniffles.