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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We’d all like free healthcare. Oh well. I don’t buy the argument that all these people will end up in the ER. [b]Some of the care is likely unnecessary and they just get it because it’s free. [/b]

If you want to talk affordable healthcare for ALL, not tied to employment, then we can talk about a sliding scale where some don’t pay. [/quote]

Please explain what you mean by unnecessary care. Medicaid and insurance do not pay for unnecessary care. Are you talking about going to urgent care because you have a sore throat that will likely go away on its own in a few days and for which there is no medical treatment because it's a virus? Possibly some of that but as a population the poor are much more likely to have chronic disease and have the hardest time accessing quality care on a consistent basis. 
It's also the case that many people are pretty medically illiterate, and I suspect they are less likely to pursue care for a symptom that maybe comes and goes that a middle or upper middle class person would be concerned about and also self-advocate if they didn't get a satisfactory answer. (Thinking of a single mom I knew, husband was in a nursing home because of a devastating work accident that left him with severe TBI, she had 6 kids, she had back pain doctors blew off which after a couple of years during out to be advanced cervical cancer. )[/quote]

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