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YewNork

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Fri May-15-09 08:58 AM
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24. People who don't go to the ER, but should.

Exactly. Emergency Rooms in the U.S. would have more people except for the fact that there are people who should go there
but who don't because they can't afford it.

And for people who give the standard response that hospitals are not allowed to deny treatment on the basis that the patient can't pay,
they don't seem to remember that patients are not allowed to ignore the bill the WILL be sent to them on the basis that they can't pay, either.

In Canada, if a person has an emergency, he doesn't even think "Can we afford it?" It's a non-issue.

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