Why America's Doctor Shortage Might Mean Trouble for Obamacare

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9. No, I still don't understand

I wasn't talking about preventive care (and very few people need to go to the doctor every three months for "preventive" care; perhaps you're talking about ongoing care of a chronic disease?). I was talking about having a sore throat and going to the hospital ER to see if it's strep.

Second, no one will have "shit" insurance anymore. Your minimum wage worker will be getting regulated insurance, if not expanded Medicaid.

Third, incurring $6000 worth of costs at a hospital and having them written off is precisely the general economic problem we're talking about. Plus, your example is the kind of thing that makes people with real emergency situations risk their own lives with long waits because something that is not an emergency (but a simple lab test) is taking up the time of someone with a serious medical emergency.