“The sad reality is that the uninsured don’t just struggle with costs themselves, they impose costs on the rest of us,” Mrs. Clinton said in September. “It’s a hidden tax: the high cost of emergency room visits that could have been prevented by a much less expensive doctor’s appointment, the cost of unpaid medical bills that lead insurance companies to raise rates on the rest of us.”
I took this from an article in last Sunday's New York Times "Massachusetts Faces a Test on Health Care."
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very insightful quote. It's so true that everybody pays when our citizens go to the emergency room for treatment that they could receive from a general health care practitioner.
We need to come up with creative solutions to get people on insurance rosters and into a medical home.
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