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To: uptoolate

http://www.reason.com/news/show/29303.html
According to a June 2003 report from the Institute of Medicine, the U.S. loses between $65 billion and $130 billion annually as a result of poor health and early death due to lack of insurance. The uninsured impose costs on the rest of us, too: A 2003 Kaiser Commission report to the Urban Institute estimated that uninsured Americans each year receive about $34.5 billion in uncompensated health care while paying $26.4 billion out of their own pockets.


13 posted on 10/17/2007 10:57:03 PM PDT by ari-freedom (I am for traditional moral values, a strong national defense, and free markets.)
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To: ari-freedom
The uninsured impose costs on the rest of us, too: A 2003 Kaiser Commission report to the Urban Institute estimated that uninsured Americans each year receive about $34.5 billion in uncompensated health care while paying $26.4 billion out of their own pockets.

The solution to this "problem" is not to impose a mandatory insurance requirement on all Americans . . . it's to eliminate government-run hospitals and government-mandated emergency care requirements for hospitals entirely. Medical facilities should be run as private businesses, and charity care can be provided at the hospital's discretion however it sees fit.

94 posted on 10/18/2007 3:23:17 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (I'm out on the outskirts of nowhere . . . with ghosts on my trail, chasing me there.)
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