So many don't like the thought of 'free' healthcare. What about 'free' limited care, as in prescription coverage and urgent care or emergency room visits, with everything over that being paid for?
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Keysh
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I think that's just more of the same problem! Already there are FAR too many people (myself included) that wait until they're on the brink of organ failure or severe injury before they admit to needing a doctor, solely because the sheer COST involved in preventive care is so absurd. I WISH I could afford to take my asthmatic husband to a doctor every few months for a checkup and monitoring. Especially since his family has a history of epilepsy and aneurysm. Unfortunately - we can't afford it. So, when allergy season comes around and the OTC inhalers and nebulizers aren't effective, he goes to the Walk-in clinic and has a prescription written. Yeah, we have to pay for it... but paying once or twice a year is a helluvalot more doable than six or ten. Even IF someone paid for that $200 prescription and $75 visit to the WIC... we still couldn't afford primary care.
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If I get your question right, I think you're saying emergency room visits and major surgery, i.e. catastrophic illness, should be free. But you should pay for everything else like regular doctor visits, minor illness and injuries, and prescriptions out of pocket or through regular insurance? That might be a fair political compromise.
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