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CrazyFlamingos · 09-19-2007, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by fxashun

I don't see how extending free/low-cost health care to everyone as a right will end up costing the tax payer less money. That simply doesn't make sense. If there was enough "charity" we wouldn't have this problem.

Part of the reduction would be because poor people without insurance would no longer use emergency rooms as their primary health care provider. You can send at least ten people for a doctor's office visit for the same cost as one emergency room visit. Getting all the poor people with simple fevers and colds out of the emergency room would greatly reduce the expense of treating these conditions.

And universal health screenings would catch more serious illnesses early and not only reduce the expense of treating them but get the patients back to work and paying taxes of their own sooner. Remember that most of the uninsured are not indigent, they are the working poor.

These are only two of the ways that dollars would be saved.

And the fact is that statistics show that countries with universal health care pay less per capita than the U.S.