Obama Health Care - Beware the fine print

And that's the key - when left to "the law" says you have to treat in an ER setting, the exploitation occurs, costs rise, and the everyone gets upset.

What makes it tougher is that health care is not a stand-alone problem. With 15 million (plus or minus) illegal aliens in the US, their impact on the ER burden is brutal. So, any resolution which eliminates/reduces illegal immigration also reduces the ER burden paid by county indigent health care funds.

A health care "insurance" program which specifically accepts those on unemployment compensation or who remain unemployed after benefits expire solves that portion of the problem without trying to have an omnibus solution which impacts the entire population.

I doubt anyone wants to deny health care to anyone else. However, the fear that a government centralized management of health care delivery for everyone will not work. Worse, then health care delivery becomes politicized selectively dispensed according to "party lines."

I don't think many folk feel comfortable to have the Republican National Committee, the Democratic National Committee or the K Street lobbyists for the various medical special interest groups making delivery rules and regulations. Somehow, I wouldn't trust a poltically-appointed Surgeon General in conjunction with the Secretary of the Treasury deciding if senior-citizen me is worth the expense of a particular medical procedure. Protect me against that potential and I can go along with almost anything!