Health Care Reform in American
What is Necessary Now
Amit Thaker
Millions of Americans and over 11 million illegal entrants working in the United States have no form of health care coverage and rarely an ability to pay for services provided to them when they choose to utilize the U.S. health care system. Typically these patients practice poor preventative health and wellness practices and often present with very acute and very serious medical and surgical illnesses. By law (EMTALA) hospitals and providers have no right to refuse the non-payer treatment and in turn, billions of health care dollars are "spent" annually on care for which hospitals and providers will never be compensated. Each and every one of us pays directly and indirectly for the billions in uncompensated care. That care is paid for in taxes, in medical costs, and in insurance premiums and we will continue to pay unless we do something today about the rising uninsured population and a government that......
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