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Originally posted by Greg B
Well that's swell but here in LA or in NY you can't get to the university clinics because the ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS and PRISON INMATES are clogging up the lines. They get first crack at treatment so that the state or feds don't get sued for some reason.
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Yea, but if everybody got free health care from the government like you mentioned, the same thing would happen to every hospital in the US. At least now it's limited to hospitals that let the universities use them.
There are several reasons for not having the government give out free health care. One is that they already do a poor job with what programs they have out there now. Another is that it means long lines for "everyone at every hospital". I've had to wait at the hospital in Seattle for 5 hours (at 2am) for a emergency I had (not serious). Imagine if all the hospitals had free healthcare.