Originally Posted by Guest

Someone could argue; so do a number of the insured, what is the significance of that??

I believe you were originally trying to say that the uninsured were going to overwhelm the emergency rooms (due to being uninsured?). This comes across to me as a liberal "fear" statement.

I was trying to point out that it does not matter if you have insurance, or not, when you have an emergency (heart attack, been in a car accident), you are taken to the emergency room. I don't believe the ambulance driver will take you to your general practitioners office.

Don't waste your time trying to infer that people with the sniffles or colds are going to be flocking to the emergency room for treatment...the triage nurse at reception will send those on down the road. The emergency rooms are mostly run by subcontractors today and they are doing it for profit. They have no moral or legal duty to aid someone that has a non life threatening condition...