Reply #9: That's only the beginning...

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The real thing is that all I had in that incident was a broken collar bone. It was sticking up strait into the skin. If I had a doctor, I would have been able to wait a couple days to see him, because all broken collarbone's need even when they are that bad is to be put in a sling, they heal themselves (I found out). All the ER did is refer me to a doctor, who I paid something like $50 strait to for his advice. But the ER has to charge $1000 because of the type of care they must be prepared to give...They do intensive care.

So repeat this story thousands and thousands of times. Poor people have to go to ERs because they either have no doctor, or things have gotten so bad because they have no doctor, and because of the ER's setup, this costs literally 20 times what it would cost if people could just go strait to doctors.