On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:35:28 +0000, Mike.......
wrote:
>Following up to john_kulp@hotmail.com (John Kulp) wrote:
>
>>>you can get emergency room care without insurance... try getting a
>>>regular appointment without insurance or a way to pay.
>>
>>Happens all the time. Since when do you have to have insurance to pay
>>a bill. Do you rely on insurance to pay your credit card bills?
>
>you are wriggling. A poor american without insurance and fear of big
>medical bills goes to the emergency room as an only resort. You know
>that is true.
Sorry, that is not true. They are covered by a program called
medicaid which is huge. The ones with a problem are largely those in
between. That is, those that are not poor and, thus, do not qualify
for medicaid but not wealthy enough to purchase insurance. 45 million
people without health insurance in the US are hardly all poor anyway.
A fair number of them simply don't want to pay for health insurance
even when they can because they are willing to take the chance they
won't get sick. That's why some states like Massachusetts which has
put through a mandatory healthcare system at the state level fine
those that do this. |