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Kurt Ullman

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Or maybe can't afford it. They end up with poor healthcare
(the emergency room) and we all end up paying for their care which is
delivered at a much higher cost than normal care and since they don't
get preventative care, they are less healthy and therfor cost even
more while recieveing less care.

Interesting line of studies from ~1990 or so showing that there are
often MORE insureds using emergency rooms for non-emergent reasons. EDs
are open at more convenient hours for those that work, maybe closer, and
other reasons.
There is also an interesting line of studies showing that even
large numbers of those insured don't get preventative care. Again, lack
of convenient hours, not wanting to hassel with it etc. I think both of
these "fixes" are not going have the cost savings impact people think
they will have.

I would like to take the profit motive out of the system as
much as possible.

For example no doctor should recieve any benefit from sending
a paticent for a test, or procedure. They should be isolated from the
profit of MRI's and perscriptions etc.
I would suggest that to address obvious conflicts of interest. I
wouldn't however, try to take the profit motive out of the doc running
their office or the (independent) MRI operator or drug store.

took to finish the text in the US. Yea, I did not have a private
room, and I was not on an IV and I did not get more X-rays and I had
no bill to pay, nor did they even care that myUS insurance covered me
there.

See what happens when (1) things are paid on a per service basis and
(2) one has to practice defensive medicine to avoid law suits.

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