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Originally Posted by Nate the great
I'm not covered under the current system (and I like it that way).
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That's because you can go to an emergency room and get medical treatment that the rest of us have to pay for should you need it. How well would you or any other opponent of national health care like it if the law was that no one could receive medical treatment at any hospital unless they either had health insurance or first posted sufficient cash to pay for any treatment they received so that taxpayers and those with insurance wouldn't have to bear the burden?
I suspect -- but admit that I do not know -- that most naysayers to national insurance who are currently uninsured by choice or by circumstance would be very unhappy if their access to the hospital emergency room required advance payment for all costs.