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Staff them with interns and osteopaths trying to repay student loans. This would take a major burden off of the emergency rooms.



Excellent. I have long wondered if public hospitals have an ulterior motive in treating uninsured in emergency rooms, i.e., driving up traffic in expensive areas. They probably want welfare money to cover ER overhead.

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If we were to take these two steps I doubt we would need to nationalize health care.


The big thing in my mind is to require welfare and insurance to actually pay their bills. Right now neither pays the costs: instead they either pay some fixed pre-determined number not directly related to the cost or will decide after-the-fact which parts of the treatment they'll pay for and which they won't. And insurance companies often take over a year to pay.

Even the smallest General Practitioner usually had a full-time employee who does nothing but try to get welfare and insurance to pay bills. That adds up: my family doc has one nurse and two people(!) trying to get such payments.
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