People without insurance die, even from easily preventable things. Then it bogs down the entire health care system because this small thing festers or gets worse. The person is taken to the ED, sometimes by EMS, using up resources. Then they spend hours in the ED being treated and using up hospital resources. Some go home, some have to be admitted taking up a bed and using more hospital resources.
Then, depending on the issue they could die. I’d want to throw in other options like SNF, ALF, LTC, or Rehab facility, but that requires insurance authorization or money, something people without insurance don’t have.
So no instead of using tax payer money to give people health care and get preventative treatment, we spend significantly more tax payer money on EMS and hospital resources.
The same argument, which has been tested and validated, can be said about it being cheaper to give the homeless a free small apartment.
People without insurance die, even from easily preventable things. Then it bogs down the entire health care system because this small thing festers or gets worse. The person is taken to the ED, sometimes by EMS, using up resources. Then they spend hours in the ED being treated and using up hospital resources. Some go home, some have to be admitted taking up a bed and using more hospital resources.
Then, depending on the issue they could die. I’d want to throw in other options like SNF, ALF, LTC, or Rehab facility, but that requires insurance authorization or money, something people without insurance don’t have.
So no instead of using tax payer money to give people health care and get preventative treatment, we spend significantly more tax payer money on EMS and hospital resources.
The same argument, which has been tested and validated, can be said about it being cheaper to give the homeless a free small apartment.
How is this a first world country exactly?